ADAM TOOZE

The rise of the giant chicken: as weights tripled, production soared to 10bn lb by 1980 and then quadrupled to 40bn… https://t.co/inFGL0uQPj

"Social scientists are not likely soon regain the zenith of influence that they enjoyed in 1960s—and lost in no sma… https://t.co/pQQ4T9Nka0

Excellent little show by Liliana Porter at @SCADMOA. For me her dizzying jeux d’echelle evoke in particular the hum… https://t.co/O5Ro4TDCmQ

The decisive break with the somatic energy regime (Smil) in US agriculture came in first half of 20th century… https://t.co/emykHPhNxV

@stevenmklein matt specter really good on this early phase I think.

@stevenmklein where can I read the dirk moses take?

@stevenmklein Im just paraphrasing matt specter’s take in MIH here. And I guess it turns on a comparison of the rol… https://t.co/xLD8VUBUJk

@stevenmklein hi Steven I agree about the koselleck contrast … but I took the Dahrendorf from Osborne and his shock… https://t.co/LtvskydSZf

It is a known fact that the last four years of the Reagan administration were managed by the brain trust of Nancy a… https://t.co/gF9ym0An03

@brianmlucey @lmartods is this for real? MI5 asking UVF to assassinate Charles Haughey. In 1985. When he was opposi… https://t.co/K7mG4doEJU

"More firepower was unleashed during the Vietnam War than during any other conflict in human history.” The equivale… https://t.co/JF5iUreGTq

Spatial innovation prior to the computer – the world's largest vertical letter file, with electrical operated eleva… https://t.co/5hQWVCpEgP

@DuncanWeldon Highly recommend the review in the @NewYorker though I have to say that the religious riff seems quite off too me.

AlphaZero’s flexible machine learning system overtook decades of development in computer-chess systems in 4 hours.… https://t.co/hbI9yBxode

In 1970 Habermas pushed for Leszek Kolakowski to succeed Adorno at Frankfurt. The resulting conflict, surprise surp… https://t.co/lAjDPcJHq7

Albert Camus quoting WWII fighter pilot and author Richard Hillary: "sometimes it is necessary to combat a lie in t… https://t.co/0JyKfkoDFJ

Is Habermas really the inheritor of the Frankfurt school project. A recent blogpost has triggered a great mini-deba… https://t.co/NasiDdfZde

Shaky foundations: Lagging productivity in construction is a $1.6trn drag on the global economy… https://t.co/uJCUJcOBee

"Westerners fight face to face … They choose the crudest weapons … but observe … rules of honour. Orientals, by co… https://t.co/dQZ9DUCaRM

Calling for "‘Contrapuntal studies’ that analyse events, developments and processes in core and periphery together… https://t.co/CeyBZpVIKl

This is one of the most amazing papers I've ever seen. The authors got a standing ovation in the middle of an NBER… https://t.co/LSVEc3nfVd

Macron personfies France’s “new generation of managers”. Regis Debray’s “Nouveau Pouvoir” discussed in the @FT by… https://t.co/uIKT1X8Uwn

“misplaced while on loan to a government department” “water damage” – the euphemisms used to describe destruction o… https://t.co/XEtYE6Mt0z

@mattyglesias thank you Matt. my whole family enjoys your podcasts! Especially my teen, which i mean as the highest… https://t.co/7ivJUTvOA1

@youngindia hmm i would need more details. Email me.

Artists install "Wehrmachts-Stolpersteine" in front of AfD HQ, including details of atrocities. Banners read "ident… https://t.co/jQ76qrQL3Z

"As long as scholars in the social sciences and humanities operate in a mostly pacific universe, they will continue… https://t.co/UwV1Cli0GL

‘‘the impact of war in 20th c upon generalized patterns of change has been so profound that it is little short of a… https://t.co/WeX17SKwKX

Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas (back right) in Heidelberg 1965. Not easy to find photos of all three of them toget… https://t.co/tgCecLJBgX

Rare photo of Dahrendorf & Habermas together, occasion of Sigmund Freud Prize (1989). Habermas delivers a truly bac… https://t.co/g4I1znqO6E

"As Michael Mann observes, ‘‘From Enlightenment to Durkheim most major sociologists omitted war from their central… https://t.co/hLUXqUNCLx