What We're Reading This Week
Chloe Bordewich
Houri Berberian, "Roving Revolutionaries: How cosmopolitan Armenian radicals launched the 20th century", Aeon
Ra'uf Mas'ad, "السودان ومصر في مرايا متعاكسة", Bidayat
Samuel Tafreshi, "When Hamlet Speaks Persian: A History of Shakespeare Translation in Iran", Ajam Media Collective
Collin Bernard
David Motadel, "The Myth of Middle-Class Liberalism", The New York Times
Quinn Slobodian, "Colossus Wears Tweed", Dissent
Anthony Paletta, "In the 1980s, Every City Needed a Science Center", CityLab
Martin Crevier
Freg J. Stokes, "Australia, a Counterrevolutionary Colony", Jacobin
Susan Pedersen, "Shock Cities", London Review of Books
Daniel Markovit, "How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class", The Atlantic
Karim Chahine, "James Madison et la toute-puissance de la majorité", Le Devoir
Meghna Chaudhuri
Joshua Leifer, "A Tense Relationship: The vexed history of Zionism and the left", The Nation
Darren Umney, "Twenty years after: The workshop on cultural economy", Journal of Cultural Economy
Ingrid Kvangraven, "Samir Amin: A Pioneering Marxist and Third World Activist", Progress in Political Economy
David Waldstreicher, "The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy", Boston Review
Tiger Zhifu Li
"A Tale of Two Wongs of Historical Importance for Different Reasons", Chinese American Historian Blog
Megan Harvey, "How the world reacted to Taika Waititi and Mark Ruffalo's hongi", New Zealand Herald
Nick Anderson, "Harvard and Yale's China connections investigated", Stuff