Publication alert! The Rise and Fall of Private Advocacy Forums co-authored with Grace Ballor Part of a special issue "Global governance and the emergence of a post-neoliberal order" edited by @llchristyll.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social Quinn Slobodian academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

“An interminable crisis of hiccups and vomiting” couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy

Join us for the NYU History Marilyn Young Memorial Lecture by Moon-Ho Jung, with comment by @stschrader1.bsky.social. Tues Sept 9, 3pm in NYC. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“‘The others seem to be weak. We want someone who’s got kryptonite,’ said Bernard, who runs a computer consulting company. ‘You need an almost-felon to beat a felon,’ he added.”

Here is the blueprint for how to get rid of the Dept of Homeland Security and actually save lives instead of committing mass murder like these psychopaths have done.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

In a conversation about his new book “America, América,” Greg Grandin and @llchristyll.bsky.social discuss the inextricable histories of Latin America and the United States.

@llchristyll.bsky.social asks what to make of the fact that the nationalist right has taken up some of the asks of the anti-globalization movement. Bello says “we provided the critique, we provided the foot soldiers, and the right ate our lunch”

Project Esther isn’t just about Palestine. Crafted by the Heritage Foundation — the same far right organization behind Project 2025 — the playbook makes clear that their war on the Gaza solidarity movement is just a Trojan horse for a far more ambitious project: destroying the American left.

“This will destroy the university as we know it. Harvard is situated in the US physically, but its students & faculty hail from around the world; that is fundamental to the work & mission of the institution. You can't take that away & have an institution left." — Kirsten Weld, President Harvard AAUP

One of the highlights of this year was co-hosting a keynote lecture by the magnificent Sherene Seikaly, titled "Palestine as Paradigm." I am so honoured to be able to share it with you all. Take some time with it. Her message has never been more urgent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq0A...

Obscene. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

Very happy to share my small contribution to this excellent @radhistreview.bsky.social issue on "economic miracles" - about the work brilliant historians are doing to uncover the links between the so-called "milagro mexicano" and the state violence of the period. read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

What fans don’t know about the Sherita, the dinosaur billboard that used to be featured on Atlantic Ave., is that she never was about quirky, old, working-class Brooklyn. Instead, she marks a nasty pattern of northern Brooklyn real estate manipulation.

Very excited to talk to these three about global justice activism and IFI reform in this webinar next week - register to join us!

Wall Street won’t rewild the planet. Or decarbonize mining. Or defossilize agriculture. For @phenomenalworld.bsky.social I unpack why chasing investability harms climate goals in sectors beyond energy & transport - & what states can do with derisking failures www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/unb...

"Before the first Trump administration, refugee resettlement took an average of 18 to 24 months...The Afrikaners, however, had to wait no more than three months." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/w...

Don't forget to submit your paper for our 2nd event on 'Rethinking Internationalism' - we're looking for papers/panel proposals focused on methods and new ways of writing history. Perfect if you've been trying to figure out how to push beyond (or find new ways of approaching) the 'official' archive!

In Dec, a senior fellow at AEI published “A comprehensive guide to overhauling higher ed“ in the Washington Times advocating: - Cutting off federal funding - Removing foreign money from higher education - Trump destroying DEI on campus - Shaking up college accreditation archive.ph/2024.12.08-0...

Important reporting here.

Besides using the mechanisms of DEI for those who want to destroy it, the use of ‘heterodox’ here is so laughable

NEW on Academe: “It’s time to call out the big lie for what it is: an effort to silence dissent & smear protesters. Pro-Israel advocates have aligned themselves w/ the forces of repression….Cloaking right-wing commitments to racism under the guise of fighting antisemitism will never keep us safe.“

“I have spent my life making government work and getting results for people,” Andrew Cuomo says, listing his experience, including 11 years as governor. A woman yells out, “you resigned in disgrace!”

Many ppl don't care about AI's environmental damages or labor exploitation, but they might listen if you let them know it's fiscally irresponsible to tie your institution to an economically unviable product. (yes, this is a highly optimistic take)

Love to watch the meritocracy in action

Hi final act was to scold J.D. Vance for his lack of compassion toward migrants. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

reagan/bush judges: "this administration's shocking arguments would reduce the rule of law to lawlenssness" neocons: abolish ICE david brooks: communist manifesto Dem leadership, top liberal consultants/pundits: the latest NYT/Ipsos has Trump up +4 on immigration, +9 with noncollege men

I have seen the incendiary and reckless language universities have used in these student disciplinary files - which are now being deployed by the Trump admin to detain and deport our students. This is on our university leaders.

Which global governance reform policies matter most to countries in the Global South today? Why is there so much institutional resistance to these reforms? Register to join Andrés Arauz, Anush Kapadia, Robert Wade, and @llchristyll.bsky.social Friday at 1pm ET as they dissect these dilemmas.

Our Histories and Futures of Global Governance initiative continues this Friday at 1pm ET. Join us for a webinar on Reform from the South with Andrés Arauz, Anush Kapadia, Robert Wade, and @llchristyll.bsky.social Cohosted with our friends @gdp-center.bsky.social Register! tinyurl.com/HPEGGRS

I will not stop pointing out that the Trump admin is following the lead of organized right-wing forces; universities pretending that there are genuine/popular/widespread concerns underpinning the attacks on our work completely ignore the way they have been manufactured. We must fight back.

Organized, right-wing actors with powerful benefactors have been building the movements that underpin Trumpism for more than a decade, and liberal institutions stay ignoring that fact

Just a reminder that these are the people purporting to be outraged by antisemitism on campus. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

The obscenity (and the menace to Jews) of these officials pretending any of this police state assault on our constitutional order has anything to do with concern about antisemitism is off the charts. Just diabolical.

I published a book review today about ideas crossing the border illegally, in case you’re interested in the historical roots of our moment: “Internationalism, the Mexican Revolution, and the Uses of History,” The Americas: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Quinn Slobodian’s excellent new book on the socio-economic darwinism of the hard-right helps explain our chainsaw-capitalist moment.

One thing universities could do right now is commit to not surveilling or arresting their students, faculty and staff.

Is this bad? This seems bad. www.ft.com/content/0005...

On “philosophy adapted to the existing order”

There’s a lesson here for every Big Law firm, university and media company if they care to learn it.

"Having experienced multiple movements come and go, what I can say is that there’s a small window in the beginning, a very small window, where that energy is there, where it doesn’t matter who’s around you, everybody’s working together. Before the ego comes out." jewishcurrents.org/what-the-jew...

We are ready for the march, see y’all in DC

Exactly this. Now students on visas have trumped-up university disciplinary records that are subpoenable and being used to deport people for speech.

Apparently you can’t say anything ‘anti-governmental’ at the NYU medical school?! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security asserted Ozturk 'engaged in support of Hamas,'...but did not provide evidence of that claim" www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...