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Josh Specht 🐂🏠

@joshspecht

University of Notre Dame. Land and politics. Cattle and capitalism too. Hopefully another thing soon.

 South Bend, IN
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Joined January 2009
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Publication day for my new book, Property Values! Get it, read it, buy it for friends, sleep with it under your pillow, etc. press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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Samuel Moyn 🔭@samuelmoynNov 12
RIP Richard Posner, who charmingly and forthrightly questioned the free market ideology he propagated for decades, after it utterly transformed law schools and American life, with lasting consequences to this day. harpers.org/2010/03/six-ques…
Six Questions for Richard Posner on Capitalism and Crisis, by Ken Silverstein

Six Questions for Richard Posner on Capitalism and Crisis, by Ken Silverstein

Richard Posner has been a judge on the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals since Ronald Reagan appointed him to that position in 1981. He is also a

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@daniel_dsj2110Nov 11
Forthcoming: American War Machine: The US Military-Industrial Complex from Eisenhower to Trump By Mark R. Wilson press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
American War Machine

American War Machine

A sweeping history of the vast military and industrial complex behind America’s unmatched power on the world stage, from the Eisenhower presidency to Trump

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Mira Siegelberg@MiraSiegelbergNov 5
We’re hiring at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School! Please help spread the word! newschool.wd1.myworkdayjobs.…
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Property Values is now out in the UK! I know hordes of you have been anxiously waiting. press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
Property Values

Property Values

A wide-ranging history of American land ownership, from westward expansion to the suburban housing crisis

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Window one over from top left is my office, which is why I've been working from home the past few days.
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@JeromeBettis36Nov 7
It's just DIFFERENT when you're home with the Irish☘
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Jared@jaredjctNov 7
do people in Mississippi understand there are people on the New York City Subway right now going, “pick another protein? Sheeeeiiiiiii”
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@TheCinestheticNov 7
INSOMNIAC WITH DAVE ATTELL (2001) was a brilliant late-night comedy travelogue. Attell would hit a different city, stay out until sunrise & stumble into the kind of bizarre encounters no travel show would ever plan. Gloriously unfiltered TV.
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@TheCinestheticNov 6
What are the most underrated TV shows, the ones that no-one ever seems to talk about, but you love?
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Marina Bolotnikova@mbolotnikovaNov 6
I busted my ass on this story and think it's pretty interesting (and not paywalled)!!!! vox.com/future-perfect/50902…
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@rcoboothNov 6
loved this smart, wide-ranging @mbolotnikova piece on what we can learn from Sweden's factory-built housing vox.com/future-perfect/50902…
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Miles Powell@Miles_A_PowellNov 6
I'm going to need a bigger Tweet! Thrilled that my book, Shark Hunt, now has a cover and appears on the Harvard UP website. It explores the gory and generally disastrous history of human efforts to commodify sharks, from the early 20th C through the present. #sharks #history
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This is 100% getting discussed in Red Meat Republic 2
Joe (@JoePostingg) profile pictureJoe
@JoePostinggNov 4
They're going to study this ad for centuries
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Sven Beckert@Sven_BeckertNov 5
If you can, join us tomorrow.
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Trying to make the sunglasses emoji a thing in my professional emails but it isn't working 😎
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too smug coded apparently 🫠
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staid@staidindoorsNov 4
we're putting ms rachel on the $100 bill
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Going to bed with full confidence in the needle
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I don't really know my Kantorowicz but this is it right?
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"But as you all know, Prevost graduated from Villanova. So the Pope doesnt take sides. Prevost has another opinion but we wont do that now" goodness. His sense of humor 🤣🤣🤣
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David Schleicher@ProfSchleichNov 2
🚨New Episode🚨@samuelmoyn and I talk with Diego Zambrano about his excellent new book, How Americans Enforce The Law, about when and why private lawsuits are used to enforce statutory rules. Download it while it’s hot!
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No Context Brits
@NoContextBritsNov 2
Yes, I’m a gamer.
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Looking forward to immediately eating three-quarters of my kids' Halloween candy after they go to bed.
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My son is an angler fish. Not bad! My daughter is Elmo. Ok it's been done, but she's making it work.
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