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Eli Cook

@Eli_B_Cook

Jul 31 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X

A short thread on why, as an Israeli lefty and former Philadelphian Jew, I ask: Please do not pick Josh Shapiro for VP:

1. Josh Shapiro suddenly started supporting school choice after GOP megadonor Jeffrey Yass suddenly stopped funding ads against him in the 2022 gubernatorial race. I think we know what happened here. Yass also gave to Shapiro campaigns back when he was AG. But there is more...

2. Remember all those mass protests in Israel before 10/7? Yass also bankrolled the ultra-right "Kohelet Forum" that was behind the attempted "reforms" to the Israeli judicial system that would have decimated what ever is left of Israeli democracy.

3. These reforms would have eventually led to the disenfranchising of Arab Israelis whose electoral power is crucial if we are ever going to save Israel from fascist ethnocracy and apartheid. Putting 1 and 2 together I think its is clear that Shapiro is dangerous because of Yass.

4. Now I have no idea what kind of pull Yass will have on Shapiro if he does end up in the White House. But I do NOT want to find out. The results could be absolutely devastating for both the Israeli and Palestinian people who are going to have to pick up the pieces one day.

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A number of American friends have been asking about my thoughts on Israel so I figured I’d just do a thread. This isn’t some academic analysis or anything, just some things I’ve noticed as someone who follows the news closely and has been to probably a dozen protests. Here we go:

1. The threat was real. American Left is (rightfully) wary of anyone that leans on unelected Supreme Court, but in this case they were final line of defense before dictatorship. Israel has no other checks or balances. No constitution, no separation between exec. and legislature

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My article on the rise of Choose Your Own Adventure books in the 1980s is finally out with the Journal of American Studies! Here is a thread on some of its main points and a link to the article.
bit.ly/32pq1Pe

This article is the first thing I have ever written on the late 20th century. Also, its by far my most "American Studies" work - going back to my roots as a PhD student at Harvard History of American Civilization department. Am Civ forever! 1/n

Despite selling 250 million copies and becoming 4th most popular children series ever, the CYOA phenomenon has yet to be placed in its larger social, economic or cultural context. I think Im first American historian who wrote academically about this (but I could be wrong.) 2/n

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Nov 26, 2019

THREAD: Rereading the Olmstead & Rhode take on New Hist of Capitalism because - good god - slavery/capitalism debate has reached Israel. I was particularly struck by this graph which O&R use to prove "U.S. cotton played no role in kick-starting the Industrial Revolution" 1/7

At first glance it looks like a pretty damning piece of evidence. Why Britian was importing loads of cotton well before the cotton gin explosion! But then I glanced at the left side of the chart and suddenly it looked a little fishy. The lines jump by an exponent of 10..weird 2/7

Note how big distance is between 1 and 1 million bales of cotton (6 lines) versus b/w 1 million to 1 BILLION bales (only 3 lines). Half the lines for 1000x more cotton! Such design choice indeed makes it look as if UK was cotton importing powerhouse before slavery came along. 3/7

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Eli Cook

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Aug 24, 2019

1/ THREAD: One of the ironies of current capitalism/slavery debate is just how influential slavery was in shaping the very categories/methods/metrics growth-focused economic historians use today.

2/ Slavery was central to the idea that we should value the progress of a nation by calculating the income-generating powers of its residents. There are countless examples of this in my book, The Pricing of Progress. Here are a few nice tidbits:

3/ Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, the premier encyclopedia of 18th c economic thought, was written by Malachy Postlethwayt. Hamilton was obsessed with it, lugged both volumes around during the Revolutionary War! P began career as promoter of Royal African Company.

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