Kaarish Shah Maniar

History and political theory of monopoly. PhD Candidate @Columbia_PolSci. Previously @GUGovt, @JusticeATR 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

[Kaarish Shah Maniar @kaarishmaniar]

Excited to share that my article is now out with @MIHJournal!

I argue that the Levellers’ antimonopoly thought was not merely about securing free trade from ‘the State,’ but was constitutive of their demands for popularly legitimated public authority.

https://t.co/TXsL6b08I7

[Teresa M. Bejan @tmbejan]

An important paper, the Levellers’ political, as well as economic, objections to monopoly have been unjustly neglected!

[Teresa M. Bejan @tmbejan]

And congratulations, Kaarish!

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

Checkout this new Modern Intellectual History article on the Levellers, Monopoly, Rights, and Public Authority by Kaarish Shah Maniar: https://t.co/qEvteQhThg

[Nathan Feldman @NathanFeldman95]

"Leveling Monsters: Monopoly, Rights, and Public Authority"—An excellent article by the brilliant @kaarishmaniar!

[Kaarish Shah Maniar @kaarishmaniar]

I’m grateful to so many people for their thoughtful feedback and helpful conversations: Turku Isiksel, David Johnston, @tmbejan, @KMantena, Carl Wennerlind, Justin Schwartz, Dan Luban, @RrjohnR, Nigel Smith, Shannon Stimson, David Guerrero, Nadia Urbinati

[Kaarish Shah Maniar @kaarishmaniar]

Excited to share that my article is now out with @MIHJournal!

I argue that the Levellers’ antimonopoly thought was not merely about securing free trade from ‘the State,’ but was constitutive of their demands for popularly legitimated public authority.

https://t.co/TXsL6b08I7

[Teresa M. Bejan @tmbejan]

Today is the official release date for my new book, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism (Belknap, 2026).

It explores how and why “equality” became, rather suddenly, a basis on which ordinary men and women could make political demands in early modern England.

https://t.co/kvDo8FNcWf

[Priya Satia @PriyaSatia]

3/3 The presumption (by Robin/Riley) that capitalists have existed for thousands of years naturalizes, normalizes, and dehistoricizes liberal political-economic subjectivity

[Vicky Murillo @VickyMurilloNYC]

Congratulations Dr ⁦@DavidVilalta4
Columbia⁩ PhD

[Teresa M. Bejan @tmbejan]

Excited to see this out in the world!

https://t.co/KdVDoFeeaj

[@claraemattei @claraemattei]

Excerpt of my New book "Escape from Capitalism" on @jacobin
https://t.co/ph3CnDtooE

[Kaarish Shah Maniar @kaarishmaniar]

@geneburrus @superwuster Dahl, Lukes, etc. is a good and necessary start, but it’s worth looking at historical anti-monopoly arguments themselves for the necessary conceptual vocabulary. Economic rights, corporate democracy, proportional representation, etc were at one point anti-monopoly arguments too

[Kaarish Shah Maniar @kaarishmaniar]

@geneburrus @superwuster Historical monopolies (the ones you list, but older early modern ones too) did not wield purely ‘economic’ power, but moral, social, and political power too. To @superwuster’s point, I think we’ve lost the language for describing and tackling their extra-economic power.

[Kaarish Shah Maniar @kaarishmaniar]

Excited for this, send in your work!

https://t.co/p21NGKyywI

[Kaarish Shah Maniar @kaarishmaniar]

Depends what we mean by ‘socialist’ (e.g. Neo-Brandeisians seem compatible with strains of market socialism), and it’s too simple to just call them ‘capitalists,’ but yeah they’re by no means anything particularly radical

[Aren LeBrun @arenrlebrun]

Khan is not a socialist (alas); she’s a New Brandeisian capitalist who wants anti-trust laws to be enforced. That’s it. The real problem here is billionaires have fried your brain to such a mist that you think any governance imposed on the rich heralds violent revolution.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Remember when Kamala bowed to her billionaire donors and wouldn't commit to keeping Lina Khan on at the FTC?

[American Economic Liberties Project @econliberties]

“You don’t find someone guilty of robbing a bank and then sentence him to writing a thank you note for the loot."

"You don’t find Google liable for monopolization and then write a remedy that lets it protect its monopoly," says @nhegde on Judge Mehta's failure to do his job.

[Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt]

Free Gifts is officially out today!!

[Grant @grantdminer]

Claire Shipman just blamed protestors for endangering international students by “making our institution a target.” This is pretty rich from someone who lets DHS search residence halls and disappear students. Concerned? How about working to free Mahmoud?

https://t.co/Spq3Nz2TXM

[Sacha Sloan @sloan_sacha]

🚨🚨A second federal judge has ruled that Google has violated antitrust law, this time in two advertising technology markets.

Link to filing in next tweet.