Anton Jäger
@AntonJaegermm
Historian of political thought | Lecturer @Politics_Oxford | Usual disclaimers
From this month onwards I’ll be writing regular contributions for @nytopinion, with pieces on Europe and more. First piece on continental rearmament should appear soon. nytimes.com/by/anton-j-ger
It's called the German pirouette or 360-spin - in your ardent desire to atone for one mass killing, you end up enthusiastically endorsing the next one
23/7/75 Mao has a cataract removed. He listens to an opera through the two hour operation while Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping wait outside the door.
Great to have the splendid @GuilhotNicolas writing for @ftopinion about digital democratic centralism (aka the 'America party') on.ft.com/44Tva2r
oh hey i know this guy
The Beekeepers and the Birdnester, a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, created around 1568.
Sometimes you find yourself yearning for the rules-based world order of yore
The Beekeepers and the Birdnester, a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, created around 1568.
This excellent obituary of the scholar Hugh Roberts who died recently also reminds us that his last book for Verso (Loved Egyptian Night) is one of the sharpest analyses of the Arab spring. Tom Hazeldine, Unconfined newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/… via @newleftreview
[Man with no friends] Carl Schmitt discussed the "friend/enemy distinction"—
This by @Will___lloyd in the @NewStatesman is the most devastating profile of a politician I can remember. You think it's just the cringey story of poor Kemi Badenoch realising she's out of her depth. Then you realise what else is lurking in the water. newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…
Necessary first time vinyl pressing of one of Pavel Milyakov aka Buttechno's finest self-releases; all bloozy drift and wiry post-punk mantras blessed with Yana Pavlova’s vox and Alex Zhang-Hungtai sax, recalling A.C. Marias via Young Marble Giants bit.ly/4o3mDmg
The Times's reassignment of four critics is one thing, but its downgrading of the so-called traditional review is altogether another: newyorker.com/culture/the-le…
Fascinating how a whole field of ‘industrial archaeology’ was invented in postwar Britain as a popular reaction against the wilful destruction of the country’s industrial heritage (the book is from 1975)
And the first drawing of Stonehenge was made by a man from Ghent, Lucas de Heere, in 1573.
PHOTO OF THE DAY. The first aerial photo of Stonehenge 📷 Lieutenant Philip Henry Sharpe (1906).
US manufacturing in the Midwest now pays a $900 per ton premium over world aluminium prices - thanks to tariffs! Visit today's Chartbook Top Link for new content here: tinyurl.com/4k4tvbym
"THE HEGEL SEMINAR CAME TO AN END with Hitler's invasion of Poland..." Ryan Ruby reviews Marco Filoni's intellectual biography of Alexandre Kojève: bookforum.com/print/3201/heg…
It is amazing how bad it's become. Just full of slop, Boolean operators ignored, sponsored rubbish everywhere, image search nuked, 'corrected' spellings which aren't, etc etc etc.
Google search was so amazing when it worked. You could explore the hidden corners of the internet