I've finished "The Infernal Triangle: How America Got this Way." Farewell to the 5-book project that consumed some 30 years, over half my life! For the nonce, writing deadline-free on this Substack. First 50 subs get signed books or personal Zoom greetings. PAY ME!!!
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' “Solidarity across difference,” Crabapple summarizes. “This insistence that you could remain yourself, you didn’t have to change who you were, while also fighting alongside others for a better and more beautiful world: that’s the heart of why the Bund remains so morally inspiring today.” '
Screenshot from New York Times Opinion: How Much Humiliation Can Vance Take?
I don't know, but let's try some more.
Join us for a conversation with “Know Your Enemy” co-hosts @mattsitman.bsky.social and @samadlerbell.bsky.social and “Revolutions” host @mikeduncan.bsky.social about right-wing narratives and rhetoric around decline, lost greatness, and everything in between.
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I profiled @mollycrabapple.bsky.social for @us.theguardian.com. We discuss her timely new book, "Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund."
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hiiiiii bluesky just dropping in to say we taped a brand-new episode of @goingdowntv.bsky.social (REAL, NOT A PRANK) available NOW on youtube dot com 😎 featuring correspondents Camden Garcia and Justin Catchens + an interview with @samadlerbell.bsky.social ❣️
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I had a very nice time on @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ6N...
There are about three hours until Mets first pitch so that leaves you plenty of time to read my 2026 Mets preview (featuring a @samadlerbell.bsky.social cameo that he is only going to learn about if he sees this notification) nygroove.nyc/guide-to-202...
ooof a real dismantling here. when Stamped from the Beginning came out, it seemed there was utility in Kendi's simplification of extremely broad and complex history, but nah, complexity it something to embrace. easy categorization is the enemy of thought.
really good review here by @samadlerbell.bsky.social of Ibram X Kendi's new book on the development of right wing thought
Adler-Bell nails the fundamental, non-materialist perspective of Kendi's work and how it allows him to just fly off in 100 directions at once www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...
By the time I got to learning how the Canadian opposition leader Pierre Poilievre was supposed to represent fighting “for freedom as patriots, like the nation’s founders,” my head was spinning. (Canada does not share America’s reverence for its “founding fathers”; Canadians don’t even agree who their “founding fathers” were.) Reading “Chain of Ideas” ends up feeling like going through an ambitiously organized junk drawer after 10 years of careless use. The compartments are labeled, but everything is all mixed up.
as @samadlerbell.bsky.social points out, that rush toward simplicity goes hand-in-hand with a startling lack of rigour www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...
Great piece by @samadlerbell.bsky.social on the women leaving the MAGA movement
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I reviewed Ibram X. Kendi's new book "Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...
As the New Right movement lurched to MAGA land and full-blown misogyny, some young women have learned trad marriages aren't about protecting and venerating women, they're a place to confine women outside of public life and where they know who the boss is.
Good work by @samadlerbell.bsky.social.
new piece up at @newyorker.com on a great debut novel!
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Tomorrow, 10/18 at 10AM: Join the Department of History as we welcome three distinguished graduates to discuss their pathways from the History concentration into diverse and rewarding careers. This event is part of Brown’s Family Weekend 2025. Learn more: bit.ly/4ncXMuW
