Sam Lair @slair.bsky.social Fellow at FPRI | MIIS NPTS '24 | RTs/views my own etc. Also @sam_lair on Twitter
Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social historian at Oxford co-editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8
Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social Founder/Lead Editor, Standard Error Research Editors (@standarderror.bsky.social, http://stderr-editors.com; opinions here are mine!)
Ex American Journal Experts, Chicago Booth, @cepr.org, LSE
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Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين @loubnaelamine.bsky.social Political Theorist. KCL. Comparative Political Theory. Ancient Chinese Political Thought. From Lebanon.
Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social The Nation podcast 'Start Making Sense" host; co-author with Mike Davis, 'Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties"; KPFK podcast host, "Living in the USA"
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com Writer
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
Marc Sinan Winrow @marcsinanwinrow.bsky.social Research Assistant @LSE IR. Teaching Fellow @SOAS. Interested in international and political theory and the normative and historical sources of international order with a focus on Turkey/MENA/eastern Mediterranean.
José Luis Benavides @jlb825.bsky.social Journalism Professor at California State University, Northridge. Director of the Tom and Ethel Bradley Center, and advisor to el Nuevo Sol. | Header photo by John Kouns. Avatar: José Guadalupe Posada.
Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social Journalist, non-resident fellow at CIP @cipolicy.bsky.social, editor of @Hidden-Cities.com
Previously: Founding executive editor, Democracy in Exile @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social; managing editor @wpr.bsky.social; staff editor @foreignaffairs.com
Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social Intellectual historian, political theorist, inarticolato informatore. I also have a Substack covering French politics and history: https://samuelharrison.substack.com/. All views are those of my employer. he/him.
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social
Joseph Torigian @josephtorigian.bsky.social Associate Professor at American University School of International Service. Senior Fellow @cfr.org. Studies Chinese and Russian politics and foreign policy. 唐志学
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social Arms trade, militarism, global insecurities and global (dis)order @ Uni Sussex and Shadow World Investigations
Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social international correspondent for the Los Angeles Times
john h @heliolithic.bsky.social re-up on bad dreams // glasgow
Ben Bschor @benbschor.bsky.social Group Editor at FT Longitude, Financial Times. Yo-yo thrower outside work. Views my own.
Hongshen Zhu @zhuhs.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. Chinese Politics, bureaucracy, political economy.
Rachel Wetzler @rwetzler.bsky.social art critic, exec editor at artforum
Matt TK Taylor @tk.gg pm on developer platform @cloudflare.social
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Francis Wade @franciswade.bsky.social Political violence, nation-states & democracy • @LRB, @guardian, @nybooks, etc • Commissioning Editor @Noema • francis.h.wade@gmail.com
Essays & articles: http://linktr.ee/franciswade
K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social Critic - words in The Nation, New Statesman, New York Times, The Baffler, Le Monde Diplomatique, Times Literary Supplement, The Observer & Chair of Resonance FM
Darren Freebury-Jones @freeburian.bsky.social FRHistS. Author. Public speaker. Shakespeare scholar. General Ed: Collected Plays of Robert Greene. Associate Ed: Collected Works of Thomas Kyd. Welsh.
https://darrenfj.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/darren-freebury-jones-publications/
Chris Celenza @chriscelenza.bsky.social Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, author of *The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities*
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, @princeton.edu
Visiting Researcher, Wits Southern Center for Inequality Studies
CIFAR Fellow, "Humanity's Urban Future"
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Nabil Salih @nabilsalih.bsky.social A writer and photographer from Baghdad: @lrb.co.uk, @nybooks.com, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, @bostonreview.bsky.social
and elsewhere. PhD candidate @gvagrad.bsky.social.
Julian Lucas @jcljules.bsky.social staff writer at @newyorker.com // editor-at-large @thedialmag.bsky.social, @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social // jes’ grew carrier
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
Benjamin Fogel @benjaminfogel.bsky.social Head of Publishing at Alameda, Contributing Editor at Jacobin. South African
Daniel Soar @danielsoar.bsky.social London Review of Books
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
Chris Kay @christopherkay.ft.com Mumbai bureau chief at the Financial Times.
Previously with Bloomberg in India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the UK.
https://chriskay.co.uk/
https://www.ft.com/chris-kay
Riccardo Fabiani @ricfabiani.bsky.social Project Director, North Africa at the International Crisis Group.
Alasdair Craig @alasdaircraig.bsky.social Philosophy/Consciousness/History/Books
Editor, Institute of Art & Ideas – @iai.tv
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Instructor, Philosophy of Mind – Horizoninspires.com
DPhil, Philosophy, University of Oxford
📍Edinburgh, Scotland
Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche @cleocz.bsky.social I teach and research the history of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (@lseechist.bsky.social) ⋅ member @rehpere.bsky.social ⋅ research associate @historyecon.bsky.social ⋅ personal website: https://cleocz.com/
Benjamin Braun @benbraun.eurosky.social Political economist @ LSE | Finance, central banking & more | benjaminbraun.org
Houman Barekat @houmanbarekat.bsky.social ‘Après le déluge, moi’ - French flooding investigator
https://www.houmanbarekat.com
Nick Holdstock @nickholdstock.bsky.social Author of The Casualties, China's Forgotten People, et al. Shortlisted for Novel Prize. Rep'd by Pew Literary https://www.the-tls.com/authors/nick-holdstock www.nickholdstock.com Porcupine, a novel, out in December. Substack: https://tinyurl.com/mbze39az
Terence Wood @terencewoodnz.bsky.social Fellow at the Development Policy Centre. Aid, political economy, Melanesian politics. My writing at: https://devpolicy.org/author/terencewood/
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fatmabucak.com | fatmabucakstudio@gmail.com
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Paul Benjamin Osterlund @paulosterlund.bsky.social Istanbul-based independent journalist.
Check out my Substack FLANÖR
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Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
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Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
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Jean McNicol @jeanmcnicol.bsky.social Co-editor of the London Review of Books
James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social Writer, London
Paul Laity @paullaity.bsky.social editing @lrb (again), after years as Guardian non-fic editor. Writing book for Penguin/Norton on sandals, sunbaths, muesli, 'bearded fruit-juice drinkers' etc. Campaigner for Martha's Rule in NHS.
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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social Geographer, historian.
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Writing a book about medieval imperfection.
irinadumitrescu.com
Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social Political Theory and Intellectual History. Politics of Architecture and Iconography. Some Public Affairs Commentary.
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Texts mostly in LRB, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Architectural Review.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
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New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
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Nick Ashdown @nickashdown.bsky.social Canadian journalist/writer in Brussels writing about Turkey and Europe. New Lines Magazine, LA Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, Globe & Mail, etc.
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