Howard W. French

Author: The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide. Starred review PW:

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

🙂The Second Emancipation named as one of the 20 best non-fiction books of 2025 by Publishers Weekly. https://t.co/VsZnTiOpGS

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

An immense loss. https://t.co/NGqBqvBn8y

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

It boggles the mind that, according to a bunch of major lobby groups and institutions here in the US, we are still somehow not supposed to read anything into the rhetoric and actions of Israel's national security minister, or see his messaging as reflective of anything deeper in Israeli society.

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

This is a gorgeous radio segment, with the fantastic Ravi Coltrane as a guest, along with lots of music. Highly recommended. https://t.co/C12AVohmvc

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

Putin's thumb in yellow man's eye. https://t.co/s9IZP9SvjO

[Kennedy Brays @kennedybrays]

Opened the app to find one of my fav writer, @hofrench, sharing Dwight Garner’s @nytimesbooks review of Marlon James’s The Disappearers and adding his own high praise. The book came out today, and let it be known I was among the first to run out and get my copy! ❤️

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

How BookTok provides a boost to indie booksellers https://t.co/oe96ElCwWt

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

🙌🏼

[Kristie Lu Stout✌🏽 @klustout]

📸 Here’s my new profile pic as I clock 25 years at CNN.

(And I still feel I rushed the first 20...)

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

Congrats, John.

[John Delury @JohnDelury]

Delighted to share the news I've joined the faculty of @SAISHopkins & am based in Nanjing, China, at @HopkinsNanjing Center. Much to learn, can't wait to teach!

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

As I was just saying. https://t.co/Ej1xYUZlXy

[Foreign Policy @ForeignPolicy]

A central feature of the Japanese economic system in the 1980s bears eerie resemblance to what is happening in AI today, Howard W. French writes.
https://t.co/3DB7cwKWWO

[Foreign Policy @ForeignPolicy]

A central feature of the Japanese economic system in the 1980s bears eerie resemblance to what is happening in AI today, Howard W. French writes.
https://t.co/3DB7cwKWWO

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

No knock on Djokovic, but as great as he is, Ken Rosewall and Jimmy Conners both performed better at ages 39 and 40.

[Christopher Clarey 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 @christophclarey]

Tough to watch this

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

Djokovic goes down in the first. Epic and painful.

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

Disappearing Shanghai. (The book.)

[Sixth Tone @SixthTone]

China was urbanizing at a staggering speed, and clean, convenient, and air-conditioned shopping malls like Wanda Plaza were welcomed by both the country’s rising middle class and brands hungry to tap an emerging market.

But for the generation that came of age during this transformation, the convenience and prosperity of the new urban landscape is increasingly tinged with a sense of sameness. Rapid urban expansion did not just change how Chinese cities looked, they argue; it also displaced what anthropologist Xiang Biao calls the “nearby”: the small-scale places and relationships immediately around us through which everyday life acquires meaning.

That longing has since found an outlet online. From obsessively documenting faded Y2K architecture to creating virtual cities and nostalgic video games, young Chinese are attempting to recreate an idealized virtual version of the turn-of-the-millennium city: chaotic but colorful, and full of corner shops, wet markets, arcades, street stalls, and other places to hang out.

https://t.co/gobM0WrlRr

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

I've never seen such an ecstatic fiction review by a major critic. "You don't finish this novel # it finishes you." https://t.co/GlU5OdpaiK

[Mike Bettes @mikebettes]

A deep analysis of what may have lead to the Nepal glacial collapse and a breakdown of how the flood overtook communities in a matter if minutes. #Nepal #flood #weather

[Geoff Bennett @GeoffRBennett]

NBC News correspondent Matt Bradley, three members of his team and a Palestinian woman were attacked and injured by masked Israeli settlers while reporting in the occupied West Bank on Saturday. https://t.co/LtnHWS4Rj3

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

What kind of speech, exactly?

[POLITICO @politico]

Judge declares Rubio’s speech-based student deportations violate the Constitution https://t.co/HuegSQC934

[Lydia Polgreen @lpolgreen]

I wrote about how Democrats use identity as both crutch and cudgel, and how there is a better way. https://t.co/g1CGVJAHeS

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

Say what?

[Columbia Daily Spectator @ColumbiaSpec]

Former Israeli soldiers dressed as pro-Palestinian protesters and tabled outside Columbia’s gates on Tuesday as part of the group Frontline Advocates, which is affiliated with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. https://t.co/eAChxYz14u

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

The rise of Nvidia's stock valuation and you, whether you care or not. My column. https://t.co/CfYnzsjjGh