What is that orange ball in the sky above the water?
06.03.2026 18:59
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What is that orange ball in the sky above the water?
Cover of Work, Capitalism, & Democracy: The United States since the New Deal, edited by Ellie Shermer
So pleased to have this brilliant book physically in my hand today! Many thanks to @etshermer.bsky.social for intellectual and organizational leadership on this, and fellow series editors Kim Phillips-Fein and Andrew Wender Cohen for helping usher this into print.
Ooh this is exciting
With a listening room all to myself tonight, I played Tom Waits’s “trilogy” in order on vinyl: Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, Frank’s Wild Years. It was transcendent. Would welcome suggestions for similar musical deep dives, any genre welcome.
🌾What can today’s policymakers + food innovators learn from Britain’s postwar Agricultural Revolution?
Join us for a workshop exploring lessons from farming rapid transformation after 1940 + it's relevance for the future of food.
🔗 buff.ly/Vx6JWBE @shamilto.bsky.social @sabineclarke.bsky.social
The latest case study has just been published in the Urban Institute's History of Philanthropy initiative, supported by Open Philanthropy. It's on the farm animal welfare movement's corporate campaigns, by @shamilto.bsky.social at University of York.
www.openphilanthropy.org/research/a-c...
I just bought every vinyl I could find of Ezra Collective. Watch the Glastonbury performance if you can, they are not only amazing musicians but amazing people.
Why have professors if they can’t profess?
Strongly disagree. I have a rubric that is carefully designed to encourage students to explore ideas independently, with clear expectations laid out for how to achieve high marks. All the questions I receive suggest that students are unfamiliar with the degree of freedom I give them.
We are delighted to publish this Roundtable Review of Richard Langlois' "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise." Contributions from Alexander Field, Brian Cheffins, Laura Phillips-Sawyer, Naomi Lamoureaux & Dan Raff:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Really excited to see this compelling Roundtable Review of Richard Langlois' "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise" now out online at @entandsoc.bsky.social!
We're loving this re-skeet!
One of my favorite lyrics of Waits/Brennan: Come down off the cross / We could use the wood. Feels more relevant now than ever, which I suppose it always will.
Radical tariff changes put the US into depression in 1819, 1893 & 1929. Hasty executive action did so in 1837. Buckle up #NationofDeadbeats
As an expat this is doubly ironically true
🍊 Why is orange juice "super weird?" Asks @philedwardsinc.bsky.social, after "stumbling across" the work of business historian, @shamilto.bsky.social, whose work on the "cold capitalism" of frozen concentrated orange juice inspired this YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wSQ... #YorkResearch
Only two days now until @businesshistoryc.bsky.social annual meeting 2025. Alas, @entandsoc.bsky.social editor @andrewpopp.bsky.social can't make it this year but the journal will be well represented by associate editors @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social, @shamilto.bsky.social, Ai Hisano & Andrea Lluch!
I am less worried about the cloud, more that Home Office knows exactly where I am in realtime whether I travel or not. Not that I do anything interesting other than promote basic social justice, but it is worrisome that Neo-nazis who are British by birth can avoid such surveillance.
“regular cycling cut the risk of death from any cause by 41%”
One of the best ways of extending life is available to almost all and it’s cheap: cycle commuting.” Rather liking Forbes these days. www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
A small contribution to support the revival of antitrust: grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-up...
A little piece with Errol Schweizer (former VP of Whole Foods) on the historical significance of the blocked Kroger-Albertsons merger grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-up...
I found that my love for Big Brother deepened tremendously in the process
It’s not stored in the cloud, it’s on the chip they secretly implant in your brain while you are putting your toiletries in the ziploc bag
Yeah, as an adult with a US passport that’s exactly how it happens. Very simple.
Yes, several times. No problems at all.
Very important and potentially exciting news on the temporary block of the Kroger-Albertsons merger. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
My family has no quirks. Other than their insistence on having at least two shakers of shichimi togarashi seasoning on the table at all times.
Yes, much hinges on what one means by a "free market"! Which is a theme I discuss in some detail in the book, not fully covered in the podcast.
Was surprised to learn Freakonomics has republished the 2019 episode, “How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War,” focused on my book, Supermarket U.S.A: Food and Power in The Cold War Farms Race. You can listen and find the transcript on their website here.