Reader, writer, environmental lawyer. Books: The Trials of Nina McCall (2018); There Is A Deep Brooding in Arkansas (2025); Shakespeare’s Margaret (2026). Words: NYRB, TNR, WaPo, Atlantic, LARB, Jacobin, Baffler, etc. For more: www.scottwstern.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottwstern.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottwstern.bsky.social/post/3mjho6pddl22bMy stab at a usable history of our environmental present - plz read!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Apr 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:z5654phj57bri465expw36vc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjho6pddl22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottwstern.bsky.social/post/3mjfdreglyk2dSo pleased to share my latest in @nybooks.com, a deep dive into the history of "a working-class, populist environmental movement" in Texas. The piece draws on years of archival work, but I hope it's illuminating for our present. https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/13/go-out-and-sue-a-polluter/13 Apr 2026 17:01 +0000at://did:plc:z5654phj57bri465expw36vc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfdreglyk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottwstern.bsky.social/post/3mj2vsnqf3c2oCheck out my latest in @newrepublic.com, wherein I review a brilliant, shockingly svelte history of capitalism (out now from @wwnorton.com)! Thanks, as always, to @lauramarsh.bsky.social for the incisive edits! https://newrepublic.com/article/208809/historian-wants-imagine-alternative-capitalism09 Apr 2026 13:24 +0000at://did:plc:z5654phj57bri465expw36vc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2vsnqf3c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/scottwstern.bsky.social/post/3mizvn5f4i22wThis technology should be destroyed with hammers https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ai-luxury-class-social-programs/09 Apr 2026 03:49 +0000at://did:plc:z5654phj57bri465expw36vc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mizvn5f4i22whttps://bsky.app/profile/scottwstern.bsky.social/post/3mgc2gn6xbs2yThe first review of SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET (@wwnorton.com) is out in @publisherswkly.bsky.social, and it's a RAVE! "Enthralling ... A fascinating biography of a singular character and a revealing commentary on theater’s power to evolve with the times." www.publishersweekly.com/9781324076551 https://www.publishersweekly.com/978132407655105 Mar 2026 05:20 +0000at://did:plc:z5654phj57bri465expw36vc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgc2gn6xbs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottwstern.bsky.social/post/3mcldp5r4zk2lY'all, @charlesomalley.bsky.social and my book, SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET, comes out on June 2!!! Please please please consider preordering - it honestly makes a huge difference!! https://wwnorton.com/books/978132407655117 Jan 2026 00:19 +0000at://did:plc:z5654phj57bri465expw36vc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcldp5r4zk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottwstern.bsky.social/post/3mccxi77yv22j“Where once [universities] shook their heads at the naivete of the students whose chants asked them how many kids they’d killed today, now they are practically submitting their tallies to the DOD, one last desperate gambit to maintain the status quo.” https://jewishcurrents.org/higher-eds-bad-bargain13 Jan 2026 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:z5654phj57bri465expw36vc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mccxi77yv22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottwstern.bsky.social/post/3mbrnqthhoc2oCheck out my latest in @thebaffler.com! A deep, deep dive into the tragic history of international environmental law - and why it "offers a singularly straightforward parable for the tragic limitations of the law." https://thebaffler.com/salvos/earth-bound-w-stern06 Jan 2026 19:10 +0000at://did:plc:z5654phj57bri465expw36vc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbrnqthhoc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/scottwstern.bsky.social/post/3mbrj32co4s2jCheck out my latest in The Baffler!!! On the "tragedy of international environmental law" (a subject that, tragically, is only growing more relevant by the day...) [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Jan 2026 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:z5654phj57bri465expw36vc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbrj32co4s2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottwstern.bsky.social/post/3m5eoohthck2tCheck out my latest in @newrepublic.com - a double review of two incisive new books (AIDS IN THE HEARTLAND and FROM VICE TO NICE, both @uncpress.bsky.social) chronicling the histories of HIV/AIDS far from NYC or SF - in places like Kansas and Minneapolis. https://newrepublic.com/article/200412/heartland-responded-aids-shaped-queer-politics11 Nov 2025 17:41 +0000at://did:plc:z5654phj57bri465expw36vc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5eoohthck2thttps://bsky.app/profile/scottwstern.bsky.social/post/3m2zam7ilbc2u"The United States and its satellites, having taken the centre stage of history to great fanfare after the fall of the Soviet Union, are now exiting in disgrace." This looks like a promising new publication. www.equator.org https://www.equator.org/12 Oct 2025 17:40 +0000at://did:plc:z5654phj57bri465expw36vc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2zam7ilbc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottwstern.bsky.social/post/3m2d5euityc2gThis is a massive story that the U.S. press is almost entirely ignoring. A week ago, union dockworkers warned this would happen: “If we lose contact with the boats, even for twenty minutes, we’ll shut down all of Europe.” https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-protests-strikes-unions-israel-war-on-gaza/03 Oct 2025 22:43 +0000at://did:plc:z5654phj57bri465expw36vc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2d5euityc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/scottwstern.bsky.social/post/3m2aca66n7k2qCheck out my latest in @theatlantic.com, wherein I review EXTRACTION (@wwnorton.com), a dazzling new book by @triofrancos.bsky.social. I argue that it is "by far the most clear-eyed of mining’s many recent chronicles." https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/10/extraction-mineral-mining-thea-riofrancos-book-review/684214/02 Oct 2025 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:z5654phj57bri465expw36vc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2aca66n7k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/scottwstern.bsky.social/post/3lzz4qcfah22a"A literature which is made by machines, which are owned by corporations, which are run by sociopaths, can only be a 'stereotype' — a simplification, a facsimile, an insult, a fake — of real literature. It should be smashed, and can." https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/29 Sep 2025 23:05 +0000at://did:plc:z5654phj57bri465expw36vc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzz4qcfah22a