Listening to this for the first time since it came out, partially to review my own research on Vista Equity, now a seeming target of kleptocratic antitrust suit. But, omg, @ajdouglas.bsky.social, Jared Loggins, @kgrotke.bsky.social Crystal Sanders, Jelani Favors, & @bakerdphd.bsky.social are 🔥🔥🔥.

“It’s not that traditional liberal arts is out of step with student demand. Instead, it’s out of step with the priorities values desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to liberal education, an administrative class.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

See also @kgrotke.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/reckoni...

PRE-EXISTING CONDITION 1: ENDOWMENTS AND FINANCIALIZATION or as we say $$ Follow the Money $$ PRE-EXISTING CONDITION 2: STEM VS THE LIBERAL ARTS AND HUMANITIES Thanks @kgrotke.bsky.social

Yassin al-Haj Saleh on returning to Syria, translated by Yasmine Seale buff.ly/4dIQndz

We’d advocate for Mahmoud Khalil even if he was a witless jerk, but his letter from ICE detention will be, when we get through the fascist weather, a canonical document not of that which he calls “democracy of convenience” but the real democracy yet to be made. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

We've got Grotke @kgrotke.bsky.social and Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social

Great essay by @adamtooze.bsky.social that explores why Palestine is so central to US campus politics. This section is worth highlighting, as it articulates the shortcomings of framing anti-Palestine repression primarily through discourses of free speech or Democracy v Authoritarianism (link below)

Colleges issue billions of dollars in debt!