Ross Barkan

Novels include GLASS CENTURY and COLOSSUS. Editor-in-Chief of @the_met_review. Words in many places.

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A statement from me:

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@NickyFrank30 next term will probably be his final one

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Bernie is older than Biden but leagues sharper. It's a reminder that for all the age discourse, the actual trouble for Biden was his inability to string sentences together. If he spoke like this in 2024, he could've fought it out with Trump.

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

“I don't think there's anybody in the Democratic caucus who has a lower rating among Democrats than John [Fetterman] does.”

Senator @BernieSanders and @mehdirhasan discuss John Fetterman’s “sad state of affairs.”

Watch the full interview, link in replies.

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A significant essay in @the_met_review this week.

https://t.co/3afFGcNODE

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I'd be curious to see high quality numbers on Long Island vs. Westchester. Two suburbs of NYC with diverging politics. Westchester is a typical suburb moving left, Long Island remains MAGA.

[New York Post @nypost]

Mamdani political liability in NY suburbs, but still uber-popular in NYC: poll https://t.co/5fSJKrG3Ds

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@NoahHurowitz He's a great writer who I do think does not write great books anymore. The Underground Railroad isn't a good book. But his early novels are great.

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@HowardGraubard @NickyFrank30 2027, someone may have a good chance of beating Katz

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Brooklyn is going to have a new reform leader in the fall.

Queens is still the Greg Meeks show, with Sweeney/Reich/Bolz presumably looming in the shadows.

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A question for the politics obsessives on Twitter/X. I have my own theories but wanted to hear from you.

Brooklyn and Queens have equal progressive energy, but the reform movement in Queens has yet to make much change to county machine politics. Why?

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@SohrabAhmari @g_shullenberger I was an English major 2008-2011, and did my MA in English lit, so maybe I'm out of date now but it was pretty easy to read canonical literature and I often did

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@SohrabAhmari @g_shullenberger Honestly, yea, seems like a reasonable course list

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@Perez_Writes That's a bit unfair, sub 7 is very fast. I can run a low 7. Let me in.

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@NickyFrank30 do be stupid, indeed

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.@RossBarkan on the Tisch albatross

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“Reviewers tend to be a sheepish lot, and I won’t be so elliptical here — The Quarrymen is a great work of literature. These works, in any era, only come around so often. When they do, one must pay proper attention.” —@RossBarkan
https://t.co/Bm49lzg88i

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@Perez_Writes Woke 19, you're in jail just for thinking that.

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The left is rightfully excited about Zohran Mamdani, but one area where great reform hasn't quite happened yet is policing. The big question - can it happen with Tisch in charge?

My latest, for @thenation

https://t.co/hzCG6Vx5hW

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@xlorentzen woke 18, they come for you. but woke 19, you are free. just need to survive 18.