Well hello there @dygottlieb.bsky.social! So excited to jump into this! Congratulations!

Older daughter to younger after tickling her: “I just took my happiness out on you”

This is such a shame

New in paper or new editions: great books by @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social and @brentcebul.bsky.social www.pennpress.org/978081222483... www.pennpress.org/978151282381...

My article on the occupational sterilizations at a chemical factory in West Virginia has escaped the containment of the paywall.

The next deadline for the Silicon Valley Archives's travel fellowship program is March 1, 2026. Apply! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

In 1994 I took an anthropology class called "Cultures of Terror." It was about power and violence in authoritarian regimes. I think about that class daily. Here are some of the lessons that have kept me grounded because they help sense of the US right now.

This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

these are public executions. 6 men against 1 they do not fear for their lives or even their safety. continuing to shoot him after he is lying immobile bleeding on the ground really drives home that this is just pure anger and hatred.

So grateful for the opportunity to welcome and work with @victorpickard.bsky.social, one of the foremost scholars and advocates for media democracy in the US. Victor's work on public media is especially urgent as oligarchs and media conglomerates amass ever more communication power at our expense.

Journalists, Editors, Podcasters interested in national security, technology, surveillance, foreign policy, intelligence, law enforcement, activism: With the (audio)book's release, @brianhochman.bsky.social and I are happy to talk with you or facilitate a copy if you want to write about our volume.

I saw that The Graduate hotel is hosting ICE in Minneapolis. I won't be staying at that chain until they stop. @graduatehotels.bsky.social Please contact your local Graduate hotel if you agree.

@historians.org leadership’s refusal to let its own membership vote on a resolution on academic freedom is an anti-democratic act of moral and political cowardice. The organization can’t credibly oppose Trump’s assaults on academic freedom while repressing the freedom of its own members.

The Church Committee's investigation into the crimes of the intelligence community is about as good a model as we have for the kind of investigation into the crimes of ICE and other agencies. This is really a must-read for understanding our own moment.

People don't realize how much corporations are collaborating with—and making possible—ICE's deportation machine

Something I always wondered is how it would be covered if America became a dictatorship This is it

The era of small government is over. The only people who don't seem to recognize it are democratic centrists.

Great @lioneltrolling.bsky.social post. Havel has been a really important beacon for me in recent years, and this past year especially. What Ganz says here is totally right. open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...

This angle. My god.

Ruy Teixeira is paid by Harlan Crow, the guy who bribes Clarence Thomas, at AEI. Teixeira was so wrong and toxic that the centrist think tank CAP pushed him out. Now he’s paid by Republican billionaires. Do not listen!

Suggested reading: Michael Rogin’s RONALD REAGAN, THE MOVIE.

There’s no pitch for genAI in the classroom that doesn’t boil down to “it’s everywhere,” or that takes education as more than job training, or, consequently, that actually argues for genAI as a tool that has a distinct function in education. It’s not educators who have their heads in the sand here.

One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

Absolutely right. AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there. Let me illustrate …

The academic jobs crisis can only be remedied through organizing and building power. The path of white grievance is not only racist and wrongheaded; it’s counterproductive, as it emboldens the reactionary forces that seek to demolish higher education altogether.

Not sure I have it in me to watch The Voice of Hind Rajab, but I'm so glad it's been made and that @ahmedmoor.bsky.social has written this beautiful, gutting review www.thenation.com/article/cult...

I just listened to this, and the Susannah Glickman segment, just, wow. This is a person I will be paying a lot of attention to in the future.

"Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the university—have been given less than two weeks to accept insulting “offers” and pack up as early as January 2, 2026." Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

A+ work here from Penn's student paper.

This is fantastic — one former student of mine on the podcast of another former student of mine. Check out @m-r-glass.bsky.social chatting with Dylan Gottlieb on Who Makes Sense?

Proud to be part of this effort @lpeproject.bsky.social/@lpeblog.bsky.social! Check out the great lineup for the upcoming ALPE conference and register! And pls consider joining the new org. All info is in the linked post: lpeproject.org/blog/lpe-2-0...

After my dad’s health forced him to retire, I spent a decade organizing his research and uncollected writing, finishing after he died in 2018. Now @tomsugrue.bsky.social has edited this volume of it (and written a great intro) for @uchicagopress.bsky.social. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

this encapsulates the essential relationship between the people running universities, the people doing academic work in universities, and the people looking to smash and grab as much as possible from universities while we're on the way down

"'It speaks volumes about what happened at this restaurant that, given the challenges that the NLRB is facing, that they have chosen to act on this issue,' said Benjy Cannon, Local 25’s communication director, referring to the gridlock the agency has faced since January."

Philly-area grad students (regardless of institution) -- I have 1-2 spots in my spring seminar, Readings in the History of Capitalism. We'll meet on Wednesdays from 2-4:20. Email or DM if you're interested.

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

Volumeheads: A new Q&A with the one and only Solvej Balle in our newsletter today newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/autumn-cam...

My new Intercept piece on the NYPD’s targeting of MLK is up today, with never-before-published police surveillance photos of King.

Feds suspect arson: "Two days before an apartment complex once hailed as a shining example of Philadelphia’s urban renewal went up in flames, its owner, embattled city landlord Phil Pulley, transferred the vacant property to a New York investment firm." www.inquirer.com/news/phil-pu...

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

worth reading the whole thing but here’s the quote about the EndTimes coalition. @susglickman.bsky.social

Oh hey, @jamellebouie.net is starting a book recommendation series— OH HEY! 🗃️

We are all so screwed because the entire global economy has bet on an industry that can’t make money. Read about the massive fraud: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...

The thing that these instructors most appreciate about this format is having 1-on-1 conversations with all of their students Can confirm re: check ins I had with my class yesterday & today. They may be humoring me, but these meetings were invigorating (for me at least). I know this doesn't scale...

My seminar tomorrow is talking about modernism and neoclassicism in the Trump administration, centered around the amazing “regional car dealership rococo” essay by @katewagner.wehwalt.net. mcmansionhell.com/post/7810945...

We're open for pitches of any length! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...

Philadelphia—I make monthly donations to Nationalities Service Center, a century-old immigrant services agency here, and to Juntos, a community-led immigrant rights organization in South Philly. If you have & to spare, these orgs are essential infrastructure.

Hard, good reading by Jeet Heer www.thenation.com/article/soci...

this story is the perfect one to share with anyone who extols the virtues of big tech and big data to improve our lives or address our problems. this is what these tools are for, built by bad people who want to hurt us. and I don't think we get to liberation using them. I think we get to hell.