‘John Lewis doubted whether the ideology of Black Power could deliver the broad public support that would be needed if the huge impediments faced by African Americans were to be overcome.’

Randall Kennedy on the congressman, community leader and civil rights veteran: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

honestly crazy how obsessed conservatives are with committing child abuse, it’s like their favorite thing

‘Benn saw the way senior civil servants, the City of London, its contacts in the press and ever more cautious Labour prime ministers could obstruct and undermine any politician who tried to push through radical left-wing reforms.’

Andy Beckett on Tony Benn: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘It is now believed that every known neurodegenerative disease – from Alzheimer’s to Parkinson’s to ALS to Huntington’s to general dementia – involves a prion-like protein.’

Stephen Buranyi on the folded proteins that, amongst many other things, cause mad cow disease: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of public wealth to private wealth is a choice.

Is abundance possible for all? Melinda Cooper thinks it is.’

Katrina Forrester reviews her new book: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘The work of the first woman to be appointed a defender of the French language is an intoxicating mixture of erudition and freedom.’

Joanna Biggs on the life and work of Marguerite Yourcenar: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Ethnopolitics doesn’t just mean an ethnostate with ruthlessly policed borders. It can also mean an ethnoeconomy in which the market works its magic for the people who understand how to make best use of it.’

David Runciman on paleolibertarianism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

himbo era is over btw we’re back to pining after smart, brooding, antisocial hotties

‘It must be doubted whether MI5 ever intended to provide invaluable assistance to future historians, but its obsessive logging of various suspects’ everyday doings has resulted in a small goldmine of sources in the National Archives.’

Stefan Collini on Christopher Hill
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Former guerrilla and former President of Uruguay Pepe Mujica died on Tuesday at age 89. New in @dissentmag.bsky.social: an essay of remembrance by Uruguay's leading historian, Gerardo Caetano www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Why did corporatism take root in postwar Germany but not in the U.S.? In the first article of this special issue, @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social explores how both countries shared surprising similarities in the 1940s–50s—before diverging sharply in labor relations models. doi.org/10.1215/1547...

highkey the best part of bsky is not dealing w a horrendous contingent of midwit transphobes and RW gays camped out in my followers list. you are not yukio mishima you are an annoying unfuckable fag w a BA from a second tier liberal arts college and spiraling credit card debt

i've always felt like i was at the end. looking back

i'm like george bailey but without all the stuff to live for