Elisabeth R. Anker
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Elisabeth R. Anker
@libankerdc.bsky.social
Professor: Political Theory & American Culture
Author: UGLY FREEDOMS (Duke) & Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Promise of Freedom (Duke)
Coeditor: Theory&Event
Next Book: “Every Man a Sovereign”
Libby to my pals
Web: https://tinyurl.com/Elisabeth-Anker
TODAY! DC peeps, join us. Wondering how we got to a place where the Republican party is currently debating whether to mainstream a Nazi influencer?! Laura’s got answers.
Open to the public with free registration:
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
AI used to decode Whale language! That's one of the first cool things I've heard for using AI! Can Haz more of this please, and less using AI to unemploy workers and siphon their salary to tech bunkers??

insideclimatenews.org/news/2910202...
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Or televangelist headquarters
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Humanities where the cool jobs at
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Gotta love the people of DC
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Young men too 😮😮
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I know this brilliant editorial already made the rounds last week but HOT DAMN does @tressiemcphd.bsky.social get at a fundamental conceit of the democrats:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Virtual Book launch next week for "Archie Bunker For President: How A TV Show Remade American Politics" with Emily Nussbaum and Kim Phillips-Fein! @oscarwinberg.bsky.social 's new book is going to be great! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Look what just came in the mail! Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
by @lkatfield.bsky.social is fantastic, can’t wait to dive in!
October 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
the Death Drive is real
October 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Why are these people always the worst?
October 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
YES this is how you do it Dems -- play hardball and grow a spine
October 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
UVA damaging much more than its own reputation -- weakening the bulwark for all of academia. Now's the time for solidarity across the academy against these moves. UVA's weak capitulation is damaging for everyone
October 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
😭😭
October 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Grossest week of images ever, will denizens of bsky survive the onslaught
October 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Saddam Hussein's palace

Before and, ahem, After)
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Just another day on my university campus
October 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
October 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Such a pleasure talking with Nerd From The Future on what a university education should be, in a moment of unprecedented attacks on higher ed.
Listen here! open.spotify.com/episode/5yyt...
September 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
from Movies to TV: a republican presidential story
September 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
September 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
More real people with real interests and real bios joining bluesky!
September 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Alamy “woman professor” ✅
July 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM