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Max Nelson retweeted
Jun 13
For @nybooks, I wrote about the UFC
> All this testifies to how
thoroughly the UFC has become the lingua franca of a strange new
twenty-first-century formation: the nationalist international.
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As Israeli war criminals parade in NYC alongside our public officials, the Gaza flotilla's participants are recovering from the extreme violence inflicted on them at sea. I wrote about the history of the flotilla movement's efforts to break the blockade: nybooks.com/online/2026/05/3…
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Max Nelson retweeted
May 20
New @equatormag: Nasser Abu Srour’s unforgettable memoir of brutality and abuse inside Israel’s prisons after October 7
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May 19
I wrote about Hachette, Vincent Bolloré, and the crisis in French publishing for @nybooks :
nybooks.com/online/2026/05/1…
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May 14
Wrote on what the Hormuz War means for free seas and Eurasian globalization for @nybooks: nybooks.com/online/2026/05/1…
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Last night, Israeli forces intercepted and boarded a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza in international waters off the coast of Greece — unlawfully detaining more than 175 people, including several New Yorkers.
My team has been in direct contact with State and Federal partners as we work to confirm the whereabouts and conditions of these New Yorkers.
This is a brazen violation of international law. Those detained must be released.
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Max Nelson retweeted
Apr 22
For @nybooks I hung out with the leaders of an Iranian opposition party in exile that has organized the community here around support for Trump, support for the war, and support for the son of the last shah. My dispatch from LA nybooks.com/online/2026/04/2…
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By this point Trump (who yesterday described as “animals” people who today embody “a whole civilization”) probably can’t help himself. But no one around him is going to lift a finger to put a stop to this?
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“We stand against both the foreign invaders and the regime.... We are left doubly alone. We own this grief, mourning all by ourselves.” —an anonymous dispatch from Tehran go.nybooks.com/3NUjQ1w
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Max Nelson retweeted
Mar 25
Earlier this month, for @nybooks, I moderated a convo between Suzanne Schneider and Osita Nwanevu about the Iran war and MAGA, whether an enfeebled populism will open the door to a next-gen neocon, and what might happen when "Trump leaves the scene":
nybooks.com/online/2026/03/2…
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Superb, concise explanation by Adam Hanieh of how and why the US-Israeli war on Iran is having such massive impacts on economies and production around the world:
Bottling the World Economy nybooks.com/online/2026/03/2… via @nybooks
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Max Nelson retweeted
Mar 22
Focusing on attacks on health care I show how the Gaza Doctrine is metastasising to Lebanon and Iran just appeared.
nybooks.com/online/2026/03/2… via @nybooks
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Mar 16
RT @rozina_ali: Every paragraph of this story is wrenching.
nytimes.com/2026/03/15/world…
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Pankaj Mishra on the “rupture in historical memory” that has led India to forsake Iran go.nybooks.com/3N19jS3
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amazing mega essay on Chantal Akerman by @daniellashr in the LRB
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n05/…
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David Beal on Docteur Nico, the pioneering guitarist of Congolese rumba go.nybooks.com/4upseXs
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I wrote about the evacuation orders in Lebanon: lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/ev…
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Arang Keshavarzian on the war on Iran and the country’s long political-economic crisis go.nybooks.com/4s3GZh5
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Mar 5
A New York Times investigation indicates that it was a US strike on an Iranian school that killed 175 people, mostly children. nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world…
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Max Nelson retweeted
Feb 28
Anyone who has been alive on this earth for more than 20 minutes has no excuse for not knowing that this is nothing but mass murder built on lies and is criminally arrogant, stupid, and cruel and will end badly for many, many thousands of people.
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