Sam Klug
Historian and teacher. Author of THE INTERNAL COLONY: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chic…
- My comment on Tom Arnold-Forster's excellent new intellectual biography of Walter Lippmann is up today on the @susih.bsky.social blog, focusing on its implications for the history of American international thought. s-usih.org/2026/02/sam-...
- "Forms of labor that conserve, fix, make and care for others once had a place in the mythos of America, not to mention on the mantle of the Old Left." Extraordinary essay about what the last year has been like in DC by Noelle Bodick in @thepointmag.bsky.social thepointmag.com/politics/rig...
- Reposted by Sam KlugTucker Carlson: "Saudi Arabia [...] is kind of a weirdly free place.” Hillary Clinton: "The example that the kingdom is setting for the right kind of development [...] that is a very strong model for other parts of the world" Quotes from a real estate conference in Riyadh
- This incredibly annoying article mentions in passing that the history of emotions is actually not a new field at all, then brushes past that fact to ignore all previous scholarship and set up its protagonist as a Silicon Valley-style "disruptor" of our understanding of what it means to be human
- A common assumption is that throughout history, people have experienced the same basic range of emotions. A radical field of history now challenges this assumption, Gal Beckerman reports. theatln.tc/KD2QRX9Y 🎨: Nicolás Ortega
- Reposted by Sam KlugWhen the AI slop summer reading list dropped last year I knew I had to write about making book lists. Thanks to @thebaffler.com for letting me go long with bewildered nostalgia & regret on 20 years of Internet book culture & how we made the slop book list inevitable. thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
- Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the publication of my book, The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization. Many thanks to anyone who has read or taught it 🙏
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- Imagine writing to the subject of your research, someone who shaped some of the most consequential events of the 20th century, and mentioning that you earned a varsity letter in tennis in high school. God this rules so hard; no one does it like Anders Stephanson newleftreview.org/issues/ii156...
- Reposted by Sam Klug“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller) more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living” worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
- “You still think you can control them?”
- A lot of people are not being honest about how some of the most successful historians of our day use research assistants, or about how much they truly read, and that’s all I’ll be saying on the matter.
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- This is delightful www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/t...
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- Yesterday I finally saw a much-discussed film boxd.it/c5PRJr
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- Reposted by Sam KlugMy book _I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom_ (@yalepress.bsky.social) has been out for 6 months! I’m thrilled that in 2026, it will be available as an audiobook (March) and a paperback (July)! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
- Since it's the season for year-end list-making, here are my favorite books I read this year (books by friends not eligible) Fiction: Charles Portis, The Dog of the South Non-fiction (work-related): Richard Beck, Homeland Non-fiction: (non-work-related): Iman Mersal, Traces of Enayat
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- When I teach the War on Terror I emphasize how “WMD” always was a strange and unstable concept, encompassing both battlefield chemical weapons and nuclear weapons developed explicitly to cause maximum civilian harm. It never made any sense as a category and now it has fully jumped the shark
- In Michael Denning's Culture in the Age of Three Worlds -- a marvelous book that I sadly lost my copy of in a move a few years ago & have still failed to replace -- there's an incredible list of left intellectuals and activists born between c. 1925 and c. 1935 (1/2)
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- Spanish Prisoner, Wag the Dog, Ronin, and Heist are all good-to-great movies with great scripts. I think with Mamet we’re dealing with a post-9/11 (and post-Second Intifada) derangement situation
- Reposted by Sam KlugThis -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
- Reposted by Sam KlugFairly remarkable article here: ICE's acting director is publicly demanding that a parish in Massachusetts remove its nativity scene because it offends the administration. www.masslive.com/news/2025/12...
- Reposted by Sam KlugLeaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
- Reposted by Sam KlugTascha didn’t just build a volunteer team of more than 100,000 people, she built a community across our city. And there’s no one better suited to tell you how she did it than her. thedigradio.com/podcast/thre...
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- Very honored that my essay, "Who's Afraid of Frantz Fanon?" was selected as a notable essay in the Best American Essays 2025!
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- Reposted by Sam KlugGreat culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
- Coincidentally, "strong floor, no ceiling" was also the scouting report on me as a point guard in 8th grade
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- On major questions of university governance, a 99.3% majority vote of the faculty means nothing to the people who are actually in charge. This is a fact all of us need to take much more seriously.
- Cannot believe I just saw a reputable museum (of African American History, no less!) posting a reel of its “Frederick Douglass AI” on Instagram. Cursed.
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- My book and all other @uchicagopress.bsky.social titles are 30% off through December 3rd with the code HOLIDAY25. Get yourself and your friends a copy or twelve! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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- Sometimes I watch movies and write little things about them letterboxd.com/samklug/film...
- So, despite facing heavier workloads due to hiring freezes, about 75% of teachers in the sector where AI has been most heavily marketed do not use it.
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- I have an unusually strong memory of reading Ryan Lizza's profile of Michele Bachmann while sitting at my makeshift desk as an intern at CAP. I remember thinking, this is so vapid, but this is what everyone here thinks is important, so I probably shouldn't work at a place like this.
- This isn't something long-form (sorry, Annie, I would love to if I had the time), but the name Rita Koganzon should become more prominent as conservative voices that link great books arguments w/ parental rights arguments gain greater traction
- Reposted by Sam Kluggosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
- Reposted by Sam KlugWhen former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
- Not a good enough reason to approvingly quote DW Griffith I'm afraid
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- Helen Vendler would never
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- Not today, Satan
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- Another addition to the “Who’s Afraid of Frantz Fanon?” files www.bostonreview.net/articles/who...
- This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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- Abigail Tucker’s influence on the Douthat project remains very underappreciated
- Wonderful essay
- Reposted by Sam KlugIf the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
- Reposted by Sam KlugHiggledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme
- When I was a sophomore sitting in Mahmood Mamdani's class, Zohran was applying to college (something everyone was *super normal* about during this campaign) and practicing his flow. Now he's mayor of NY and I'm just some guy. Humbling really
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[Not loaded yet] - Election nights are great tv/online nights because you learn shit like "J.D. Vance's half-brother ran for mayor of Cincinnati and got absolutely annihilated"
