Even with a low bar, economic journalism of Iran was getting pretty lazy in the last few years. Muddling through does not a headline make, but "in the months before the war was doing neither: not collapsing, not booming — just recovering from the shock of Trump..." djavadsalehi.com/2025/06/25/i...

Wise words by Faribah Adelkhah in Le Monde - there is no op-ed in any US paper which even gets close to this level of analysis.

www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Great brief by @davidpatel.bsky.social on applying the demographer's toolkit to MENA studies. I'd wager the conflation of age, period, and cohort effects plagues almost all of Iranian studies to date. Don't get me started on the "youth" as the unit of analysis. zenodo.org/records/1538...

Ben Selwyn has a 2x2 which you could use from The Global Development Crisis (2014) that takes the 1871 commune as one type of organizational struggle vis-a-vis capitalist development.

Yeah I know it's a loose rhyme not a repeat. Also I can't paste multiple blocks in BS to preempt your rapid reply bot getting in the way. For Padgett, of course, less about left/right and more about the org & network structure... Also channels a bit of Joel Andreas' book on the Cultural Revolution.

Closest is Padgett 2012? www.degruyter.com/document/doi...