Widely somewhat respected. Co-editor, Dissent Magazine. Teach history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. New book coming at end of 2026: Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America.
Patrick Iber
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DevonTHINK costs money but if you want a free system to organize your files there's Tropy, which is part of the same open-source non-profit project that produced and maintains Zotero.
This is totally separate from the AI conversation, and I don't understand why they are getting mixed up. If I had to guess I would imagine that we are all feeling anxiety about AI for all kinds of justifiable reasons and somehow displacing it onto other productivity software
You should update your research practices! I do it between each manuscript project. I started using DevonTHINK to organize my research files for manuscript 2 rather than PDFs and photocopies (project 1). It's much better!
We seem to be experiencing some kind of confusion between "doing our own research" and "typing in our own citations". You have to do the former and you do not have to do the latter. It's not a bad idea for scholars to use technology that makes it possible for them to do better scholarship
New opening line to The Metamorphosis, Part II, in which I, Gregor Samsa, remain the same, while everything around me slowly turns into tomatoes
Forty years pass and suddenly you realize you were interpellated into capitalist time discipline by an aristocratic tomato
It's the same thing at the emergency room: if they don't know your birthday yet you show up as 126 on the monitor. Every ER is full of 126-year-olds (of all ages) and everyone who isn't a massive idiot knows that it's filler
I'm sorry, I really don't understand the scholars who are bragging about not using citation management software like Zotero. If you don't want to use it, whatever. But it's not something to be proud of! It just means you took more time and your citations were less accurate
One of my relatives gave me the clock at lower left for Christmas and I had it throughout my childhood. I swear on my life that its alarm was a recorded voice that said "Get up, get up, get up right away; if you don't get up now it'll be ketchup all day"
Absolutely, although I will say that there are two categories of grad student in my opinion: those who are already using Zotero and those that should be using Zotero
