Assistant Professor of Sociology @UCBerkeley. Director @SC2_Collab. Founding Co-Director @cplusci. A Planet to Win (Verso). he/him
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We can't make climate progress w the same old playbook. We need a green economic populism that brings immediate, material benefits to the working class—tackling both carbon and the cost-of-living crisis. We can start local rn.
Thrilled to share my NYT op-ed w @triofrancos!
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Jalen Brunson, an effective exponent of climate praxis
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"You're allowed to think about the worst case scenario, but you gotta do something about it"
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The correct, main point of THAT guardian op-ed is that growth as such shouldn’t be a sacred cow. Rather, we should organize the econ around our main social goals, including a stable climate. We need to give up on Adam Smith’s *claim* that seeking profit always just works out. 1/2
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The op-ed isn’t exactly a call for degrowth—it’s a call for prioritizing the actual end goal, social development on a livable planet, over blind faith in capitalism as usual. Obviously pulling off a more democratic economy is hard—but given the alternative, it’s worth trying 2/2
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Abundance is the opiate of the elites
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Americans also dislike the billionaires who launched or run these companies, yet you hear a lot of advice that Democrats and progressives need to be friendlier to tech billionaires.
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Progressives are strongly critical of Big Tech platforms, but most Americans like them, per our latest polling @TheArgumentMag
theargumentmag.com/p/why-eve…
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Trump has embraced "state capitalism." Critical minerals are the laboratory. @IliasAlami and I analyze its contours & contradictions--and implications for Global South sovereignty & development, and progressive politics. Read our essay in @phenomenalworld phenomenalworld.org/analysis…
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"On the day of its first meeting in 2024, AEI scholar #RogerPielkeJr published a Substack post accusing the National Academies of engaging in “stealth advocacy in support of climate litigation.” "
"Inside the campaign to discredit a key climate science report" by @CorbinHiar, @LesleyClark & @ChelseaeHarvey for @Politico: politico.com/news/2026/06/11…
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The Daily offers a great look at the rise of the downwardly mobile, college-educated left, based on @noamscheiber's new book. Essential context for the rise of Zohran, Katie Wilson, Michelle Wu, the squad, the Bernie surge, etc etc. (And tracks a theme of book I'm writing)
Why are so many cities choosing leftist mayors? @dwallacewells offers some good ideas. I'd add another: in cities, a chunk of the professional managerial class defected from neoliberalism to the left after 2008, amidst rising rents & various crises, incl climate disasters. 1/4
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Very interesting paper by Mijin Cha and Emily Grubert on the need for public control of fossils for a managed phase-out that put workers at the center. We need more thinking and planning like this.
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Why are so many cities choosing leftist mayors? @dwallacewells offers some good ideas. I'd add another: in cities, a chunk of the professional managerial class defected from neoliberalism to the left after 2008, amidst rising rents & various crises, incl climate disasters. 1/4
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In cities, the political centrality of public "collective consumption" goods enable a leftist, multi-class alliance. (A version of DWW's point)
(In SF, PMC and tech have forged a revanchist, centrist coalition. But as DWW notes, more exception than rule.) 3/4
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Climate's played a real role. While it was seen as aloof and centrist in the Bloomberg years, after disasters and then the GND moment, left climate politics have helped solder working class PMC left alliances (Wu's GND, Wilson's transit agenda, congestion pricing in NYC) 4/4
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Proud of work @NYCMayor is doing to bring Summit and the Union of Pinnacle Tenants to the bargaining table.
Meaningful victories happen when tenants get organized ✅ gothamist.com/news/landlord-…
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Energy =/= environment =/= climate, and E&E has been an indispensable resource for coverage of all three. Really nasty stuff for Politico to shut it down after a messy acquisition and basically pretend those last 2 don't exist
Jun 8
New: Politico is folding E&E, the energy trade publication it bought in 2020.
The company says it is reorganizing its energy coverage under the Politico brand and launching a series of new state and global energy newsletters.
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“The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.”
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"Since when were solar panels just another commodity? They are a technological miracle. They make us into farmers of the sun"
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Hard to think of a greater honor than to be considered The Economist‘s intellectual enemy #1.
My work is “intellectual ballast” for the largest number of Americans since 1975 wanting government to “improve the standard of living” of the poor, cut their costs, raise their incomes and stop AI from wrecking society, they say. Dream of an endorsement. Thank you @TheEconomist!
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Jun 5
My recent interview on @AmPrestigePod is now open to all!
We discussed in detail my new research: how US foreign policy world abruptly redefined China as alien to the US system.
What broke the relationship was less China’s actions than the sharp US crisis of authority in 2018.
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I’m honored to share that my book, The Master’s Tools on @VersoBooks, is a winner of the 2026 Outstanding Contribution to Political Sociology Book Award from the American Sociological Association.
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