Alexander Zevin

Historian @CUNY. Editor @NewLeftReview. Author of Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist

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Liberalism at Large is now a lot lighter. The paperback version of my book is out in stores and from Verso for 30% off: https://t.co/j1CM71MBca

[Alexander Zevin @zevin_a]

New Left Review will be hosting a talk and drinks for the release of its latest issue on 27 May in NYC. Sign up here: https://t.co/HDTHX2pgwm

[Alexander Zevin @zevin_a]

For NLR I wrote about Trump’s war in Iran and how to situate it wrt past US interventions in the Middle East https://t.co/sdd4mrS6Zl

[Alexander Zevin @zevin_a]

Speaking at the Université Libre in Brussels today at 6pm on the US left and foreign policy followed by a conversation with @DanielZamoraV. Come by if you’re in Brussels https://t.co/bakYX1gNyF

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I spoke to a senior figure within Iran’s state media for @NewLeftReview about his experience of the bombing of Tehran; the dynamics of the war; the economy; Western news coverage; and the appointment of the third Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic https://t.co/TIXvcGB9t2

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In NLR 157: Trump Abroad.

Susan Watkins analyses the political logics behind the strategic cacophony of Trump’s fifth year.

https://t.co/MH4LQBjvRb

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Important piece from @roblucas on the cruel intensification of the US embargo on Cuba - with fresh insights into its history, politics, and energy sources https://t.co/IFy8f76KKw

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Looking forward to moderating this panel for the launch of NLR 154 on what post-capitalist planning could look like: with Aaron Benanav, Nancy Fraser, and Geoff Mann. Sign up here for the Oct 2 event in NYC: https://t.co/5RDZciYz6a

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Could NYC once again become an ‘island of social democracy’ in the US? My piece sets Zohran’s win in historical perspective going back to Henry George’s near-victory in 1886, and the long battle for Home Rule in New York https://t.co/wTnmeyM76v

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Join us on Tue, 27 May at Verso’s NYC office for the launch of NLR 152. David Harvey, Alyssa Battistoni and Tim Barker will discuss the contradictions of contemporary capitalism. Issues and subs online and at the door. Sign up here (space is limited)

https://t.co/fNRB4m75iy

[Alexander Zevin @zevin_a]

I’ll be moderating this discussion in NYC on April 9. Please join (if it’s not already full up) and subscribe

https://t.co/B14fNDdVWU

[Jacob Collins @jcollinshistory]

George Steinmetz’s Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought is a meticulous study of the links btw the social sciences & the French empire. In my review, I suggest a need to think decolonization as a deeper process of social transformation

https://t.co/tb1OCkIpa5

[Matt Myers @MattJMyers]

It exists.

[Alexander Zevin @zevin_a]

What path forward for socialism at the end of history? I wrote about historian Eric Hobsbawm’s complex relationship with liberalism at the moment of its apparent triumph in the 1990s https://t.co/9fjJBvEmq8

[Alexander Zevin @zevin_a]

‘From Sartre I learned to look beyond surfaces. He also made me a leftist long before I knew what that was. Reading Sartre steered me to Fanon, and to Henri Alleg’s book…Reading about France and Algeria woke me up to what kind of country I was living in’

[Janique Vigier @livingcurrency]

A very abbreviated interview with Gary and some memories of him https://t.co/8VKsTehmzU

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[Alexander Zevin @zevin_a]

“I came to realize that the people who really seemed to know what they were doing were the communists,” Rossanda remembered in her memoir. They were “resolutely realistic . . . special kinds of people.” https://t.co/JWjehsjfXZ

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This week

[Alexander Zevin @zevin_a]

‘The fedora-sporting politician toured Rochdale with a megaphone, calling the byelection “a referendum on Gaza” and a chance to stage a protest against Labour.’ https://t.co/laUpEPxB00

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‘The thing is, even if there were a ceasefire tomorrow, this movement isn’t going away…the feeling among the organizers is that there has been a permanent sea-change in public attitudes towards Palestine. And this has already altered British politics.’ https://t.co/9F3L6s3Zlc