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Alexander Zevin

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

Joined August 2019
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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: versobooks.com/books/3090-lib…

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‘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’

A very abbreviated interview with Gary and some memories of him newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…



“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.” jacobin.com/2024/03/rossan…


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‘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.’ theguardian.com/politics/2024/…


‘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.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…


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My thoughts on the life and work of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, historian of peasants, climate change, class struggle, and a lot more newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…


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Perry Anderson on the history, theory and pratice of international law as a hegemonic instrument: 'What they forbade others, the liberal powers reserved the freedom to do themselves.' newleftreview.org/issues/ii143/a…


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"As in the US, a gap has opened up between popular sentiment & any meaningful political expression of it: 80% of Labour voters—and 64% of Conservatives—want a ceasefire"—@zevin_a for @NewLeftReview on the war on Gaza as seen from the US & the UK: newleftreview.org/issues/ii144/a…


The Biden White House continues to arm, fund and provide cover to the IDF’s slaughter of civilians in Gaza. I examined how the issue has played out in Anglo-American politics and culture. newleftreview.org/issues/ii144/a…


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For Sidecar, Joshua Rahtz on Germany's new left-wing party: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/… 'Far from signalling a "normalization" of the AfD, Wagenknecht's alliance points the way back to a more formidable and dissident left, one which foregrounds its opposition to war'.


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For Sidecar, I wrote on Biden's vision for the Middle East and the extent to which it aligns with the Israeli war on Gaza: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…


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Haven’t been looking forward to a panel as I’m looking forward to this one in a while. Join @BrankoMilan @PaulMagnette and me discussing the future of social democracy @RemarqueNYU moderated by @zevin_a!

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In the new issue of NLR, Perry Anderson on Giorgio Fanti: ‘That the PCI should have produced contributions to the literature of recollection of the distinction that it did remains testimony to what was most singular, and creative, in the mass Party.’ newleftreview.org/issues/ii142/a…

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A piece on the evacuation of politics from contemporary feminism, for Sidecar: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…


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Marini Thorne (@MariniThorne) & Matt Myers (@MattJMyers) on the political experiment in Tower Hamlets: 'A historic tradition of worker militancy, sustained by migratory waves, has created a hostile environment for the moderating tendencies of Labourism.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…


I reviewed Christopher Clark's new book on the revolutionary spring of 1848 - an impressive panorama of the people and politics of the age, but one that sidesteps key theorists and historians of the revolutions since Marx nytimes.com/2023/06/13/boo…


‘Viewed from the halls of power, the anti-China orientation of US industrial policy is not an unfortunate by-product of the green ‘transition’, but its motivating purpose…its precedent is not in the New Deal but the military Keynesianism of the Cold War’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…


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I wrote on @AntonJaegermm and @DanielZamoraV's superb history of UBI, and the policy's self-contradictions as a tool for sustaining market society: newstatesman.com/the-weekend-es…


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