Observations from an anti-authoritarian writer, postdoc researcher, occasional journalist, founder of The Fire These Times and co-founder of From The Periphery Media Collective. UK-based, from Lebanon.
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A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.