Priya Satia

1/3 Empire apologists often argue that the British empire was no different from earlier empires. In @scroll_in , I explain what set modern European empire apart from the Mughals, Ottomans, Romans, etc, drawing on brilliant recent work by Nora Barakat, Gili scroll.in/article/105965…

The crackdown at universities included expulsions, criminal charges, the actual jailing of students for as little as an oped, new campus rules that made criticizing Israel a punishable offense, the banning even of megaphones at demonstrations…and then Neera “wonders” where the protests went. Such a mystery!

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."

On Sven Beckert's history of capitalism: "Without political economy, our understanding of capitalism is at the mercy of any idiosyncratic interpretation of what constitutes capitalism and its history." jacobin.com/2026/04/sven-b…

Harvard President Alan Garber told faculty that the DOJ's recent lawsuit "ignores all of the work we've done on antisemitism" in a closed-door session Tuesday. more in @thecrimson , w/ @abbysgerstein thecrimson.com/article/2026/4…

Has anyone seen any Jewish organization anywhere condemn the destruction of a synagogue in Tehran from a US-Israeli attack or is everyone just going to ignore it

NEW: The White House plans to finance Trump’s proposed arch with $15 million from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The spending plan confirms for the first time that taxpayer dollars will be used for the project. notus.org/donald-trump/t…

I thought MAGA was all about making men manly again. But they just lie there prostrate

The fact that @TheDemocrats haven’t taken an immediate emergency repositioning to become an anti-war party is mindblowing Absolute historic failure of leadership

This country is founded on genocide.

Oh, this is unbelievable. The edit history on this tweet shows that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif originally copied and pasted everything he was sent, including: "*Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X*" Now, obviously, Sharif's own staff don't call him "Pakistan's PM," they would just call him prime minister. The U.S. and Israel, of course, would call him "Pakistan's PM." Would be funny if the fate of the world wasn't hanging in the balance.

Iranian Tar player Ali Ghamsari is currently camped at Damavand Power Plant, which provides a significant amount of electricity to Tehran. Ghamsari says he’ll remain there for a while in the hopes that his presence will protect it from bombing.

It is a disservice to the public to treat different sides of an issue as equally viable if one has been debunked according to the standards of the profession. On how the push for "viewpoint diversity" violates academic freedom @StanfordDaily @AAUP : stanforddaily.com/2026/02/17/vie…

I explained why pushing "viewpoint diversity" is incompatible with academic freedom (and its fundamental aim of serving the common good) in the @StanfordDaily 's @AAUP column. stanforddaily.com/2026/02/17/vie…

The New York Times is now describing Iran's very normal acts of self-defense - shooting down American jets that are BOMBING THEIR FUCKING COUNTRY - as an "escalation from Iran's leadership." Completely unhinged to publish stuff like this.

I had left for a few reasons; compelled to return now for other ones. Can anyone see this if I'm not "verified"? Let me also share my farewell to reviewing British history books (for now), from last year. Please read & share--thank you! Sarbat da bhala 🙏cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Harvard’s graduate student union agreed to negotiate its third contract with the University without ground rules on Friday, after the two sides were unable to agree on policies for bargaining observation. @HugoChiassonn and @amannmahajan report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/3…

Harvard agreed to provide non-tenure-track employees with paid leave during immigration proceedings, but declined to commit to sponsoring legal permanent residency applications in a contract counter proposal. @HugoChiassonn and @amannmahajan report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/3…

Perhaps I should have framed it: Docs and Profs, please ask to be addressed as such