Jesse Robertson @jessejrobertson
History PhD student at Harvard. Writing in @thebafflermag, @jacobin, @lareviewofbooks, @clereviewbooks. jessejrobertson.com Joined June 2021-
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“Integrating student protest into a self-congratulatory narrative of progress helps universities obscure the fact that the issues students protested ‘then’ are still alive & well—which in turn gives them cover to crack down on protests now.” @erikmbaker bostonreview.net/articles/the-r…
Here's what I said to the students
Our collective understanding of the relationship between structure and agency is pretty busted
this book also emerged from Columbia 68 and is an incredibly coherent structural account of the us university and its relation to the state and the world system
David Lynch on how his obsession with the OJ Simpson trial influenced Lost Highway (from Catching the Big Fish):
Nat Rich (@NathanielRich) on flying saucers go.nybooks.com/3VSZl7e
Dr. Dolan @TheWarNerd has a great new piece up in @thebafflermag — "How To Read Wars " — a rare foray outside the fortified walls of @RadioWarNerd, surveying the awful conflicts of the 2020s. thebaffler.com/salvos/how-to-…
“All it takes is one nihilistic madman with a nuclear arsenal to start a nuclear war no one can win,” Jacobsen writes. 📖 Book of the Day: @erikmbaker on Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/03/…
Daniel Immerwahr’s new piece is a romp. C19th US capitalism was pyrophilic: economic insurgents celebrated fire’s creative destruction. But “salamander capitalists” like Rockefeller survived 🔥 only to seek a (literally) fire-proof & more stable capitalism doi.org/10.1093/pastj/…
Emails I obtained via FOIA request show Elon Musk's Twitter/X was selling user data for government surveillance at the exact same time it was fighting government surveillance in court theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elo…
25 years of ‘Windowlicker’ 🗓️ @AphexTwin
SpaceX has a classified $1.8 billion NRO contract for hundreds of low orbit satellites "The plans show the extent of SpaceX's involvement in U.S. intelligence and military projects" finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive…
I love music
does anyone know what "Request for 00" means in CIA reports from the mid 50s
On this day in 1965, according to the Pentagon Papers, Lyndon Johnson authorized the use of napalm in the US bombing campaign in North Vietnam. It's an anniversary that's rarely marked, but it's a date that deserves to live in infamy.
I guess it’s that time of year again: thebaffler.com/latest/close-e…
I guess it’s that time of year again: thebaffler.com/latest/close-e…
He was so real for this
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How much have we heard in media about that one person who wasn’t even a part of the Columbia camp saying “go back to Poland”? Meanwhile at ucla, the camp is constantly dealing with actual attacks from people who are clearly coming from outside the uni with violent intent
Yale faculty to Yale administration: hands off our students.
.@SaloveyPeter: Nearly 300 @Yale faculty condemn the criminalization of Yale students engaged in acts of peaceful protest. @Yale must drop all charges, take no disciplinary action against those arrested, and respect peaceable speech and assembly on campus. docs.google.com/document/d/13G…
From me: Gaza, "Psyop Brain," and the Long Shadow of Russiagate open.substack.com/pub/artificial…
“Integrating student protest into a self-congratulatory narrative of progress helps universities obscure the fact that the issues students protested ‘then’ are still alive & well—which in turn gives them cover to crack down on protests now.” @erikmbaker bostonreview.net/articles/the-r…
This is an extraordinarily important documentation project at @NSArchive: High-level officials inside the Nixon administration debated climate change and the impacts of sea level rise, extreme temperatures, and fossil fuel consumption as early as 1969. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/…
God help us all
Reporter: Evidence at Gaza mass graves show torture and signs of being buried alive, Palestinians called for an independent investigation, what’s wrong with that? Patel: We’re asking Israel Reporter: You’re asking the accused to investigate itself? Patel: We’re asking Israel
Western liberals spent the four years of the Trump presidency yammering on about the "authoritarian playbook" which they have clearly embraced themselves as an instruction manual
the story of 68-80 is a story of a twelve-year global war that was lost. the story of 80 - present is the society that was designed by the winners.
unfortunately this is The One Thing our political system cannot assimilate as a political demand. Antiwar US politics with the Dems and GOP are like an anti-Catholic papacy
I think there is potentially a large, sympathetic audience in the US for a strong anti-war, defunding type of message, but I’m not really hearing it much, and I hear a lot where I live. Probably a fools errand to tweet this.
I am watching police officers assault professors and students at Emory, snipers lining up on the roofs at IU and Ohio State. My academic colleagues: There is no excuse for staying silent. State violence & threats of violence against nonviolent protestors are unacceptable. Period.
44 @nyuniversity department chairs and center directors, including me, sent this letter to the university administration today concerning the decision to send NYPD to arrest faculty and students engaged in a peaceful protest on campus. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
These elite university presidents and administrators seem to be some of the stupidest people on the planet
One thing the student protests bring into focus is that American authoritarianism doesn’t flow from Trump.
hearing numerous reports today that administrators have taken over a number of american universities, and are only able to defend their position by force of arms, lacking the legitimacy provided by improving either the institution they work for or the education provided by it
Sniper on the roof of the IMU. Absolutely unhinged response to a nonviolent encampment by a murderous and paranoid police state.
“Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation said that basically half of all American films made before 1950 are lost, & none of the major distributors are looking for them. Even worse, they said that more than 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever.” nofilmschool.com/missing-movies
“they didn’t know us but offered ice cream and shelter” if that’s not the vision of a society I want to live in I don’t know what is
Walked by the Harvard peace encampment where dozens of students were singing calmly in the pouring rain. They didn’t know us but offered ice cream and shelter.
Not entirely sure how any university president comes back from having their cops slam tenured faculty to the ground while arresting them
University Presidents and administrators all over the country are demonstrating this week that are overpaid, strategically and intellectually incompetent rent a cops, failing the most basic tests of competence and leadership. Completely inadequate to the moment and their jobs.
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