John-Baptiste Oduor
@BaptisteOduor
Associate Editor at @Jacobin https://www.johnbaptisteoduor.com/
For @nybooks I wrote about Mike Kelley and whether it makes any sense to talk about working class art
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
Interviewed James Schneider (@schneiderhome) on his vision for the new left party: its politics, strategy, structures – and how it can build popular power in Britain. Everyone get ready! Now's the moment!! newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…
Great piece from @fredstaffordcs
Wrangling over the construction of nuclear power in New York State has revealed the priorities of some of the state’s biggest environmental lobbies. For them, creating bureaucratic procedures they can oversee is more important than building clean energy. jacobin.com/2025/07/hochul…
I was recently interviewed by John-Baptiste Oduor (@BaptisteOduor) for Jacobin (@jacobin) about Israel's weaponisation of aid in the Gaza Strip and other recent developments. Thanks for the conversation: jacobin.com/2025/07/israel…
@BaptisteOduor asked some probing questions and I did my best to answer them while taking a vaporetto and an airplane.
The US dollar is used by governments and investors around the world for trade and as a safe asset. Jacobin asked economist Mona Ali if Trump’s tariffs are destroying trust in the currency and what effect this instability will have on ordinary people. jacobin.com/2025/07/econom…
Is Larry Summers right? Will Zohran's rent freeze destroy New York? @kashman_x and I discuss rent controls: what they can and can't do jacobin.com/2025/07/rent-c…
I wrote for @jacobin that by striking Iran, Israel and the US have forever changed the rules of the game. Tehran is now planning how it must fight the next war.
Iran has long held that conflict with Israel can be managed by limiting its retaliation within clearly defined parameters. But through its preemptive attack, Israel has revealed that it is not a rational actor and upended the rules of war. jacobin.com/2025/06/israel…
Great piece by Adolph Reed in Nonsite, excerpted from his upcoming book with @VersoBooks, which includes some interesting connections to my own recent book with Scott Aquanno. Well worth a read. nonsite.org/looking-backwa…
Zohran Mamdani offered New Yorkers a political revolution – and won My latest for @guardian! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I wrote a review of the Microsoft Word default font you didn't know you were using
Mentions from @therealbradbabs, @PageBerger22, @Return2Sanders, @katz_conn, @aarongonsher, @zoeguttenplan, @erinlangner, @cryinmeehan, @devintoshea, @brynstole, @aprzhu, @harmlessfires, @sydsssssssssss and more. thedriftmag.com/mention/issue-…
"But it is also true that we cannot simply nudge and derisk corporations into doing what we need them to do. The state must discipline them as well." jacobin.com/2025/06/abunda…
I spoke to @drakemotel at @nybooks about mass transit systems and what graphic design should be nybooks.com/online/2025/06…
Mike Kelley’s aim, writes John-Baptiste Oduor, “was not so much to humanize the working class as to point out that there was a kind of implicit stupidity in dogmatically dismissing activities common to large sections of the population.” go.nybooks.com/43AzhkI
“The best design is one that is clearly and immediately comprehensible but also notably beautiful.” —Zoe Guttenplan, interviewed by Daniel Drake go.nybooks.com/4n46Z9N
For the artist Mike Kelley, “ordinary experience, especially in its most conspiratorial and fantastic expressions, had its own kind of coherence. An attentive artist simply had to excavate and present it.” —John-Baptiste Oduor go.nybooks.com/3ZeCR1l