William Glenn Gray
@willgray.bsky.social
Professor of history at Purdue: 20th-Century international history & the global economy. Author of TRADING POWER and GERMANY'S COLD WAR. Current book project follows German economic engagement in Brazil.
Journalistic malpractice: constant complaints about the extra $3.3 trillion (over 10 years) from the new tax bill; failure to point out that deficits were _already_ going to total $21.1 trillion over the same interval. Reckless fiscal policies driving the US off a cliff.
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The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2025 to 2035
By the NumbersThe Budget Outlook, by Fiscal YearNotesSee Appendix B.
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July 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Journalistic malpractice: constant complaints about the extra $3.3 trillion (over 10 years) from the new tax bill; failure to point out that deficits were _already_ going to total $21.1 trillion over the same interval. Reckless fiscal policies driving the US off a cliff.
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
Summertime — when there are actually seats available in the best campus reading rooms!
June 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Summertime — when there are actually seats available in the best campus reading rooms!
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L'historien et éditeur Pierre Nora, membre de l'Académie française, est mort lundi à l'âge de 93 ans, a annoncé sa famille à l'AFP.
June 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
L'historien et éditeur Pierre Nora, membre de l'Académie française, est mort lundi à l'âge de 93 ans, a annoncé sa famille à l'AFP.
When your letterhead carries an amazing font, every letter commands attention. (Admittedly, the drawing is kind of cheesy.)
June 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
When your letterhead carries an amazing font, every letter commands attention. (Admittedly, the drawing is kind of cheesy.)
This week's new archive was the Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis (Archive of Green Memory) in Berlin-Friedrichshain. They're only open a few days per week but they're very nice and have an enormous collection on the environmental movement, as one would expect!
May 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This week's new archive was the Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis (Archive of Green Memory) in Berlin-Friedrichshain. They're only open a few days per week but they're very nice and have an enormous collection on the environmental movement, as one would expect!
Second archive last week: the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich (built 1972 – was that peak brutalism?).
May 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Second archive last week: the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich (built 1972 – was that peak brutalism?).
Today’s archive visit took me to the Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt. The mother ship of German capitalism called me home.
May 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Today’s archive visit took me to the Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt. The mother ship of German capitalism called me home.
Sunday @ the St Louis Zoo
May 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Sunday @ the St Louis Zoo
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Hearty congrats to Stefano Palermo, who successfully defended his Purdue dissertation prospectus – "Business Europe: A History of the European Round Table of Industrialists." Shaping up to be a landmark study on 🇪🇺 integration!
@rkpejsova.bsky.social
@drdaveatkinson.bsky.social
@palstef.bsky.social
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@palstef.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Hearty congrats to Stefano Palermo, who successfully defended his Purdue dissertation prospectus – "Business Europe: A History of the European Round Table of Industrialists." Shaping up to be a landmark study on 🇪🇺 integration!
@rkpejsova.bsky.social
@drdaveatkinson.bsky.social
@palstef.bsky.social
@rkpejsova.bsky.social
@drdaveatkinson.bsky.social
@palstef.bsky.social
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Expressen: US abandons planning of new military exercises in Europe
US has notified its allies that it intends to stop its participation in planning for upcoming military exercises in Europe. Already scheduled ones for 2025 are not (so far) affected
www.expressen.se/nyheter/varl...
US has notified its allies that it intends to stop its participation in planning for upcoming military exercises in Europe. Already scheduled ones for 2025 are not (so far) affected
www.expressen.se/nyheter/varl...
Uppgifter: USA
hoppar av militär-
övningar i Europa
USA har meddelat sina allierade att man tänker stoppa sitt deltagande i planeringen inför kommande militära övningar i Europa, erfar Expressen. Flera övningar i Sverige kommer att beröras av beslutet.
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March 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Expressen: US abandons planning of new military exercises in Europe
US has notified its allies that it intends to stop its participation in planning for upcoming military exercises in Europe. Already scheduled ones for 2025 are not (so far) affected
www.expressen.se/nyheter/varl...
US has notified its allies that it intends to stop its participation in planning for upcoming military exercises in Europe. Already scheduled ones for 2025 are not (so far) affected
www.expressen.se/nyheter/varl...
State capacity. Institutional memory. How can we preserve these things in the wake of mass firings and – perhaps even worse – several years of Trumpian cluelessness? Perhaps @historians.org is already at work on this, but anxiety over this woke me up last night. Some thoughts: 1/
March 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
State capacity. Institutional memory. How can we preserve these things in the wake of mass firings and – perhaps even worse – several years of Trumpian cluelessness? Perhaps @historians.org is already at work on this, but anxiety over this woke me up last night. Some thoughts: 1/
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So I’m curious, if the US invades Canada would that falsify the democratic peace theory or prove the US is no longer a democracy?
February 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
So I’m curious, if the US invades Canada would that falsify the democratic peace theory or prove the US is no longer a democracy?
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On his public journey to embracing Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Elon Musk has frequently amplified the online content of one young supporter of the party - climate change and COVID-19 lockdown sceptic Naomi Seibt reut.rs/405LtXL 1/8
Meet the influencer who has Elon Musk's ear on Germany's far-right
On his public journey to embracing Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany, Elon Musk has amplified the online content of one young supporter of the party: Climate change and COVID-19 lockdown sceptic Naomi Seibt.
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January 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
On his public journey to embracing Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Elon Musk has frequently amplified the online content of one young supporter of the party - climate change and COVID-19 lockdown sceptic Naomi Seibt reut.rs/405LtXL 1/8
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Not what I thought I'd be writing about when I picked the name Torched.
Thanks to everyone for checking in. We're fine. Many of our friends are not fine. I tried my best to describe what's happening with the fires and what LA needs to do now
www.torched.la/zero-percent...
Thanks to everyone for checking in. We're fine. Many of our friends are not fine. I tried my best to describe what's happening with the fires and what LA needs to do now
www.torched.la/zero-percent...
Zero percent containment
Reporting from a city, torched
www.torched.la
January 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Not what I thought I'd be writing about when I picked the name Torched.
Thanks to everyone for checking in. We're fine. Many of our friends are not fine. I tried my best to describe what's happening with the fires and what LA needs to do now
www.torched.la/zero-percent...
Thanks to everyone for checking in. We're fine. Many of our friends are not fine. I tried my best to describe what's happening with the fires and what LA needs to do now
www.torched.la/zero-percent...
Forthcoming from @stanfordpress.bsky.social, a fascinating study on the Banat by Tim Olin! Proud of the great history scholarship coming out of Purdue's Ph. D. program. Discount code in the flyer.
January 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Forthcoming from @stanfordpress.bsky.social, a fascinating study on the Banat by Tim Olin! Proud of the great history scholarship coming out of Purdue's Ph. D. program. Discount code in the flyer.
New article alert! Did not expect this to come out before the New Year, but here we are. Thanks to Felix Jiménez Botta for editing the special issue - it's a nice set of essays on human rights in West Germany! doi.org/10.1177/0022...
Almost Infamous: Amnesty International, the Bonn Republic, and the Brazilian Dictatorship, 1964–85 - William Glenn Gray, 2024
This article examines human rights activism in West Germany on behalf of political prisoners and torture victims in Brazil under the military dictatorship (1964...
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December 23, 2024 at 3:40 PM
New article alert! Did not expect this to come out before the New Year, but here we are. Thanks to Felix Jiménez Botta for editing the special issue - it's a nice set of essays on human rights in West Germany! doi.org/10.1177/0022...
Feels like old news now, but it takes a while for book reviews to hit the journals. Gratifying to see Christoph Laucht's review of TRADING POWER in the current issue of CENTRAL EUROPEAN HISTORY! He's right, I shoulda spent more time in 🇫🇷... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Trading Power: West Germany's Rise to Global Influence, 1963–1975 By William Glenn Gray. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xiii + 498. Hardcover $44.99. ISBN: 978-1108424646. | Central ...
Trading Power: West Germany's Rise to Global Influence, 1963–1975 By William Glenn Gray. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xiii + 498. Hardcover $44.99. ISBN: 978-1108424646. - Volume 5...
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December 13, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Feels like old news now, but it takes a while for book reviews to hit the journals. Gratifying to see Christoph Laucht's review of TRADING POWER in the current issue of CENTRAL EUROPEAN HISTORY! He's right, I shoulda spent more time in 🇫🇷... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Glad to see that my review of Hesse's _Exportweltmeister_ is out! The book is a "must" for folks interested in German political economy. @quinnslobodian.com
#AfS: "Exportweltmeister. Geschichte einer deutschen Obsession" heißt das "kompakte und gut lesbare" Buch von Jan-Otmar Hesse, das Rezensent @willgray.bsky.social
für seine aufschlussreiche Analyse lobt, die Exportüberschüsse und auch deren Auswirkungen in den Blick nimmt: library.fes.de/pdf-f...
für seine aufschlussreiche Analyse lobt, die Exportüberschüsse und auch deren Auswirkungen in den Blick nimmt: library.fes.de/pdf-f...
December 11, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Glad to see that my review of Hesse's _Exportweltmeister_ is out! The book is a "must" for folks interested in German political economy. @quinnslobodian.com
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Now Cambridge UP has approached me regarding using my book as training data for AIs. (They do offer a royalty of 20%, though it's unclear 20% of what exactly, and how much that would be in real numbers.)
I'm curious: what do colleagues think about this?
I'm curious: what do colleagues think about this?
December 4, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Now Cambridge UP has approached me regarding using my book as training data for AIs. (They do offer a royalty of 20%, though it's unclear 20% of what exactly, and how much that would be in real numbers.)
I'm curious: what do colleagues think about this?
I'm curious: what do colleagues think about this?
This is bad, folks. Without Gallium and Germanium we’ve already lost half of Western Europe!
And so the trade war drumbeat grows louder! China bans export of key minerals to U.S. as trade frictions escalate www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
China bans exports of gallium, germanium, antimony to US
The ban on exports of 'dual-use items' related to these and superhard materials takes effect from Tuesday.
www.reuters.com
December 3, 2024 at 1:18 PM
This is bad, folks. Without Gallium and Germanium we’ve already lost half of Western Europe!
New doorbell! But you need to click on the picture to see the design — I don’t know how to control the format otherwise.
November 22, 2024 at 11:06 PM
New doorbell! But you need to click on the picture to see the design — I don’t know how to control the format otherwise.
Mood is _always_ better on a day like today, with 500+ words down on paper (metaphorically speaking). Why can't I get myself to do this every single day?! It only takes a few hours of good concentration to redeem this tab.
November 21, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Mood is _always_ better on a day like today, with 500+ words down on paper (metaphorically speaking). Why can't I get myself to do this every single day?! It only takes a few hours of good concentration to redeem this tab.