The US govmt prevents the entrance of a survivor of the Argentine dictatorship death camps elpais.com/mexico/2026-...

Dear friends....Just started a substack on fascism, populism and the present, pls join me there! federicofinchelstein.substack.com/p/the-histor...

The New School of Social Research is being dismantled. youtube.com/watch?v=JRPP...

It’s so good I have to post it twice, this time to say hell yes, look at what you can do with an Africana Studies major from Bowdoin College

I saw Habermas in the Union Sq Barnes and Noble after he gave a talk in NYU. He was so focused on the recent arrivals table that I could not bring myself to bother him.

400,000 people in Mexico City say one can enjoy Shakira in peace.

I will be talking about my book with Fernando Pérez Montesinos this February 12. All can join www.international.ucla.edu/LAI/events/1...

“Cuando la extrema derecha habla de libertad de expresión, lo que reclama es una vía libre para discriminar. Pasa con el trumpismo o el presidente Kast cuando niega el terrorismo de Estado de Pinochet”, sostiene Federico Finchelstein, historiador www.eldiario.es/sociedad/aba...

“When the far right talks about freedom of expression, what they are really demanding is a free pass to discriminate. Examples: Trumpism or President Kast when he denies Pinochet's state terrorism,” argues historian Federico Finchelstein. www.eldiario.es/sociedad/aba... @eldiario.es

My post-AHA @uncpress.bsky.social book order came in! Can’t wait to read these!! (Photo on my office carpet because my desk is too full of random stuff 🤪) #History

From a FB post about Alex Pretti:

Gracias, Elliott

Trump Has a New Motto www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...

“I worked on a project that was just cleaning up after a high-level engineer tried to use AI to generate code to complete a complex project,” . . . “But none of it worked and he didn’t understand why – starting from scratch would have actually been easier.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“the scale and depth of the attacks on our institutions—whether dismantled, weaponized, or personalized—mean that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to just flip the lights back on”

The Brief History of Violence in Mexico is out! uncpress.org/978146968994...

The Screen That Ate Your Child’s Education www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...

Mi entrevista en El País elpais.com/mexico/2025-...

Un artículo sobre los exiliados radicales bajo la dictadura basado en las cartas y las publicaciones de mi padre www.memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/art_revistas...

The Plains and the Pampas: a workshop at Columbia

MIT’s reply to Trumps shocking attack on education is a master class in deft rhetorical communication and positioning. It refutes without ceding ground. It negates without naming the charge. It accuses and rejects while sounding compliant. What a breath of fresh air after endless disappointments

I am honored to be a colleague (and student) of Rashid Khalidi and his public lectures on Palestine at The People's Forum have started. Please learn!

Next October 30, I will be discussing A Brief History of Violence in Mexico with my friends Thomas Rath, Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Paulo Drinot and Ben Smith www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

From Columbia’s Mark Mazower: www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Remember Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil who was abducted and detained for his pro-Palestinian speech? His story is a prime example of what can happen when a school abandons its students to the whim of the government.

a “well-known practice from the McCarthy Era” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Weiss’s publication, in short, was the preferred vehicle for conveying information from Columbia insiders who wanted to purge all criticism of Israel from the university to Trump administration officials who were using … financial pressure to help them do … that” www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...

Together, Texans built one of the finest systems of higher education in the world. Ideologues and opportunists are tearing it down. It is a despicable act of generational vandalism that will hurt all Texans, their children, their grandchildren, and their great-grandchildren.

Correct on the banal pledges of neutrality by real-estate-operations-with-tax-breaks administrators, but still relying on the simplistic taxonomy of “liberals” vs “conservatives” in the faculty. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

“To equate the expression of such views with antisemitism is not only wrong; as Judt warned, it also risks putting Jewish students in greater danger.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

My new book ‘Hispanic Technocracy: From Fascism to Catholic Authoritarianism in Spain, Argentina, and Chile' with @CambridgeUP is out now! cambridge.org/9781009603041

The personal narrative is more interesting than the authoritarian thinking, of course. “The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

La semana próxima en Morelia.

Una conversación sobre mi libro con Sara Hidalgo y Sergio Aguayo

“This continued framing of campus tensions as a particular crisis of antisemitism is incomplete and dangerously misleading. It attributes these tensions and concerns about discrimination to one-sided prejudice among Columbia students and affiliates.” www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

Columbia University’s agreement with the Trump administration is a disaster for academic freedom, freedom of speech, & the independence of American higher education. Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. 1/

"No established legal process was followed for the Columbia agreement; no genuine legal dispute was resolved."