Rob Rakove

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Historian of U.S. foreign relations at Stanford University. Author of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World and Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion.
📕 Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned Worldhttps://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/history-after-1945-general/kennedy-johnson-and-nonaligned-world?format=PB&isbn=9781107449381
📕 Days of Opportunity: 🇺🇸 and 🇦🇫 Before the Soviet Invasionhttps://cup.columbia.edu/book/days-of-opportunity/9780231210454
Rob RakoveDec 8, 2023
Zeb LarsonDec 8, 2023

It's a rare pleasure to be able to talk with a friend about their book, but I got to do that here with @robrakove. Rob's book, Days of Opportunity examines an understudied period of U.S.-Afghan relations, namely the 1920s through the 1970s and contextualizes the crises that have rocked Afghanistan since 1979. https://newbooksnetwork.com/days-of-opportunity

#history #histodons #podcast

Podcast | Robert B. Rakove, "Days of Opportunity: The United States…

Robert B. Rakove, "Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion" (Columbia UP, 2023)

New Books Network
Rob RakoveOct 5, 2023
Worth reading:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-05/the-moral-case-for-no-longer-engaging-with-elon-musk-s-x
The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X

The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

Bloomberg
Rob RakoveOct 3, 2023
H-Net ReviewsOct 3, 2023
New review published -- Siitonen on Jones, 'My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness' https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57765 Reviewer: Olli SiitonenTitle: My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into DarknessAuthor: Howard Jones
H-Net Reviews

Rob RakoveOct 2, 2023
I just finished listening to a terrific discussion of Debbie Sharnak's new book "Of Light and Struggle," which chronicles the activist response to Uruguay's late-Cold War dictatorship. Very much worth your time: https://newbooksnetwork.com/of-light-and-struggle
Podcast | Debbie Sharnak, "Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice,…

Debbie Sharnak, "Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

New Books Network
Rob RakoveSep 21, 2023
Slovenia is well worth the trip!
Rob RakoveSep 21, 2023
More to the point, who'd have guessed that you'd put this on your masthead?
Rob RakoveSep 2, 2023
I can only assume that they’ll be naming it Delta City. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/business/california-solano-county-city.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
How the Dream of Building a California City From Scratch Got Started

A former Goldman Sachs trader moved to the Bay Area to make it in tech. He ended up buying rural land with money from some of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest people.

The New York Times
Rob RakoveSep 1, 2023
I, for one, welcome our new ACC overlords.
Rob RakoveAug 18, 2023

As usual, the NYT misses the point. Gee's disastrous budgetary decisions are buried in the middle of an article purportedly pondering the future of education.

Counting majors is also an erroneous measure of a language program's utility. Even a year or two of language instruction can provide immeasurable benefit to non-majors.

The calamity isn't just that WVU won't have Spanish majors; students from other programs won't be able to develop helpful linguistic skills.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/west-virginia-university-budget-cuts-deficit.html

West Virginia University Slashes Its Budget, Plans to Drop Languages

The state’s flagship school will no longer teach world languages or creative writing — a sign, its president says, of the future at many public universities.

The New York Times
Rob RakoveAug 15, 2023
John Eastman's fashion crimes go unprosecuted at this late hour.