Q. When is anti-fascism illegal? A. Under fascism. Time for a Spartacus moment here, folks. Join the chorus. I'M ANTIFA!

Searing testimonials from the We Are Not Numbers project, out today with Interlink Publishing. Just published a review on the Mass Review site: massreview.org/2025/09/02/a...

Republicans tend to be good at branding: they find catchy, positive terms for their policy initiatives. Oddly, their anti-DEI rampage doesn't fit into that camp. So far they haven't found a positive term for what they stand for, just a misapplied misnomer for what they're against.

The absurd thing is that David Grossman could not say this at Columbia or else he would be accused of antisemitism. Time’s ticking for American authors to get on the right side of opposing genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

New Yorkers! (#DidntKnowNeedToKnow): "This film series sheds light on the little known and rarely explored cooperation in film and TV between the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the two Germanies during the last decades of the Cold War. www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

When I last taught my War Stories course at UMass, I explained to my students that, since we had studied Ariel Dorfman, they at least would know what to expect, because they'd seen what happens when a government declares war on its own people. Read him now: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In an online discussion yesterday, I was asked what I like most about editing. My answer? I too often find myself speechless, so what could be better than finding others who aren't? None speak more clearly about the unspeakable today than Huda Fakhreddine: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

No US writer or publisher has ever received the IPA's Prix Voltaire award, bc, well, the US used to believe in this silly thing called the First Amendment. Today, alas, it's time to bring this prize home, and no one deserves it more than Michel Moushabeck. internationalpublishers.org/six-publishe...

In the interest of governmental efficiency, here's a modest proposal for the NEH: recycle statues from the monument graveyards in Moscow, Tallinn, or Budapest. Won't be too tough, especially today, to morph those old boys into today's "American Heroes!" (photo by S. Rodovnichenko)

Princeton also told them to kick rocks, along with a coalition with Rutgers. www.commondreams.org/news/rutgers...

MIT following Harvard's lead here

Re: "home-growns": “The cold joke mocks the victims. It is an added cruelty and it is also a display of power: we can put you through hell merely for our mild amusement. It adds emphasis to the difference between 'us' and 'them'...

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

Of course she did. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...