Danny Postel
@dannypostel
Politics Editor @newlinesmag.bsky.social
My colleague @chriselkholy.bsky.social and I picked the brains of several Iran scholars (Babak Rahimi, Claudia Yaghoobi, Janet Afary) to make sense of the religious, cultural & ideological symbolism at work in the recent state-sponsored mass weddings in Tehran ⏬ newlinesmag.com/running-note...
Veteran film critic @raypride.bsky.social previews Saturday's event with @purenonfiction.bsky.social host & documentary film curator Thom Powers in the @newlinesmag.bsky.social + Nighthawk series Juxtapositions—join us if you're in Chicago! Details on Eventbrite ⏬ www.eventbrite.com/e/the-art-of...
🎧 Why is the far right—from Russia to Serbia to the US—so titillated by the Eastern Orthodox Church's aura of medieval-ish darkness, its crusader fantasies fueled by the iconography of “Christendom”? @jasminmuj.bsky.social & @faisalalyafai.bsky.social discuss on the @newlinesmag.bsky.social podcast
From @hbanai.bsky.social's must-read @newlinesmag.bsky.social essay “The Last Temptation of Trump at the End of a Failed War” newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
“These are the utterances of a man casting about for an act of sufficient magnitude to substitute for the coherent strategy he never bothered to contemplate,” @hbanai.bsky.social writes in a tour-de-force, must-read @newlinesmag.bsky.social essay. newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
Hats off to the geniuses on the Trumpy Left who insisted that Trump was anti-war, anti-interventionist, anti-regime change, anti-imperialist, whatever. Some of us argued that this view was delusional. The Trumpy Left stridently dismissed those critics. Any rethinking of that position now?
From @joelowndes.bsky.social's MUST-read report for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest confab in Phoenix
Chicagoans: Wednesday at Nabala Cafe. My friend @sepehrvakil.bsky.social will be discussing his new co-authored book on a group of Iranian engineering students in the years leading up to the 1979 revolution, in conversation with actor & stand-up comedian Rami Abushhab. I'll be introducing the event.
A pair of MUST reads at @newlinesmag.bsky.social — @shaneburley.bsky.social on Laura Loomer and Jewish MAGA's danse macabre, @benlorber8.bsky.social on the antisemitic core of MAGA's obsession with Epstein and why progressives have no business jumping on the bandwagon. Ideology critique at its best.
The Palestinian scholar @danaelkurd.bsky.social was in the Jewish Museum of Berlin on October 7, 2023. In her @newlinesmag.bsky.social essay “Memory Voids and Role Reversals,” she describes the “whiplash” of learning about the events of that day while absorbing atrocities across multiple decades. ⤵️
From @idreesahmad.bsky.social's new must-read @newlinesmag.bsky.social essay (full text at newlinesmag.com/argument/bey...)
The opening lines of a powerful first-person account by Nader Hashemi of his recent visit with his Georgetown University colleague Badar Khan Suri in an ICE detention facility in Texas, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social (full essay at newlinesmag.com/first-person...)
Marvelously incisive, useful exercise in myth-busting and ideology critique by @mkaradjis.bsky.social Read the full text on his indispensable “Their Anti-imperialism and Ours” blog: theirantiimperialismandours.com/2025/01/14/t...
From @areidross.bsky.social's essay “Lost in the Luigi Mangione Fun House” in @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/argument/los...