My new piece in @foreignaffairs.com focusing on the day after is free access right now if you want to check out.
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My new piece in @foreignaffairs.com focusing on the day after is free access right now if you want to check out.
For anyone curious about Chabad and Kabbalah, I wrote a whole book about it!
Get 20% off *Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism* when you order direct from the publisher using the code RUPTURE20
www.sup.org/books/religi...
In DC on March 31? Come to a discussion of The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun. Panelists include Patrick Jackson, Evan Medeiros, and
@katiestallard.bsky.social rd.bsky.social. Thrilled Mike Froman of @cfr.org will moderate.
www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
A book with a white cover. Most of it its taken by a cursor arrow constructed with, on one side, colorful hand stitches in Japanese stab binding style, and on the other side with pixelated lines in vapor wave palette. It reads: Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literatures from across the Americas.
Itβs the one year anniversary of Binding Media!!!
Tomorrow!
The Cristol Lecture - "Modernity as Rupture: From Kabbalah to Freud"
March 5 | 6:30 p.m. | Brite Divinity School, Bass Conference Center, 2925 Princeton Street, Forth Worth, TX
Author @giuspapa.bsky.social wrote about US foreign policy and #Greenland:
"applying 19th-century expansionist logic to todayβs geopolitical environment misreads Europeβs material capabilities and risks undermining U.S. strategy at a time of intensifying competition with China and Russia"
Big thanks to Simon Sebag Montefiore for his kind words about Party's Interests Come First in @thetimes.com. Coincidentally I read Palace Walk in 2025 and also loved it...
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
Book cover of We the Voters: The Constitutional Choices That Shape America's Elections by Lori A. Ringhand
We the Voters is out!
"Lori Ringhand has produced the rare work that is thorough, accessible, and scholarly. The neophyte and expert alike will benefit from engaging with her marvelous account of how history shapes how we vote and debate voting."βMark Graber, U of Maryland
https://ow.ly/IeAG50YmKsY
Beyond the Stadium highlights some of the profound and startling ways that sports and politics have interacted throughout recent history
"Even the highest praise fails to accord proper credit to the brilliance of this book."
βAndrei S. Markovits, University of Michigan
https://ow.ly/FbfZ50YmJVE
Author @giuspapa.bsky.social wrote about US foreign policy and #Greenland:
"applying 19th-century expansionist logic to todayβs geopolitical environment misreads Europeβs material capabilities and risks undermining U.S. strategy at a time of intensifying competition with China and Russia"
π§ On this episode of The President's Inbox podcast, Dalia Dassa Kaye sits down with James Lindsay to discuss President Donald Trumpβs decision to launch a war against Iran, the prospects for regime change, and the consequences for the region.
Great questions from local news in LA as I explain all the challenges arising from this war on Iran:
Book cover of Atrocity: A Literary History by Bruce Robbins
Congratulations to Bruce Robbins for Atrocity: A Literary History winning the 2026 RenΓ© Wellek Prize! Prize sponsored by the #ACLA
Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity
https://ow.ly/E28F50Yonvh
Here's my latest podcast with @cfr.org talking through how the US got into this war and what may be next:
Winner of the JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material @stanfordpress.bsky.social
A nuanced understanding of how the British Empire's fate became central to Zionist and broader Jewish political thought
Browse now: mngbookshop.co.uk/978150364244...
#NationalJewishBookAwards
Congratulations to Bruce Robbins for winning the RenΓ© Wellek Prize!
For more about his prize-winning book, take a listen to the conversation between @jackewilson.bsky.social and Bruce Robbins on the History of Literature Podcast. #books #literaryhistory @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Book cover of We the Voters: The Constitutional Choices That Shape America's Elections by Lori A. Ringhand
We the Voters is out!
"Lori Ringhand has produced the rare work that is thorough, accessible, and scholarly. The neophyte and expert alike will benefit from engaging with her marvelous account of how history shapes how we vote and debate voting."βMark Graber, U of Maryland
https://ow.ly/IeAG50YmKsY
Beyond the Stadium highlights some of the profound and startling ways that sports and politics have interacted throughout recent history
"Even the highest praise fails to accord proper credit to the brilliance of this book."
βAndrei S. Markovits, University of Michigan
https://ow.ly/FbfZ50YmJVE
Book cover of Atrocity: A Literary History by Bruce Robbins
Congratulations to Bruce Robbins for Atrocity: A Literary History winning the 2026 RenΓ© Wellek Prize! Prize sponsored by the #ACLA
Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity
https://ow.ly/E28F50Yonvh
Congratulations to the 50th Annual #PROSEAwards Excellence Winners at Simon & Schuster, Cambridge University Press, and Stanford University Press!
Read more at publishers.org/news/the-ass...
In her new book, "Robed Representation," Associate Professor of Political Science Taneisha Means writes about the lives, work, and impact of Black judges in the U.S. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3MXGV30 (Photo by Grace Adams Ward β24)
Later this week!
Here's my full conversation with @dassakaye.bsky.social about where things may be headed:
www.globaldispatches.org/p/off-ramps-...
βWhen AI reads and then writes, it conjures up results that are eerily akin to what human reading- plus-writing might come up with, at least in terms of compositional quality. Why does this matter?β An excerpt from Naomi S. Baron's READER BOT. @stanfordpress.bsky.social
pghrev.com/can-ai-read/
Looking forward to this on Sunday March 1!
Sasha Senderovich comes to London to explore these stark, unforgettable narratives of love, loss, trauma and memory with Jewish Renaissance executive director Aviva Dautch.
Book Tickets Here: buff.ly/fT29BSA
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
@kingsplacelondon.bsky.social
@returnstosender.bsky.social
"After Liberation" comes out NEXT MONTH! You can save 20% on your pre-order at www.sup.org with code MATFESS20.
LiVE NOW on @csis.org @korea.csis.org⬠The Impossible State | APARC's Gi-Wook Shin discusses his book, The Four Talent Giants: how Japan, Australia, China, and India built economic power by using distinct national human resources development strategies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=THR2...
Book cover of Robed Representatives: How Black Judges Advocate in American Courts by Taneisha Means Davis
In Robed Representatives, Taneisha Means Davis offers new insights into the lives, identity politics, and actions of Black state court judges.
https://ow.ly/Eoal50YitWi
#ReadUP #BookSky
Tomorrow: @returnstosender.bsky.social's talk at UCL about his and Harriet Murav's new @stanfordpress.bsky.social collection of Soviet stories about the Holocaust. Free event, registration required.
Attendees can also purchase the book with a nice discount.