This was painful to write. I hate that Emory’s new interim president, on her second day of office, just last week, called for abolishing DEI programs at Emory. open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...

noellemcafee.substack.com/p/the-sound-... What a university sounds like when it complies — and what truth sounds like.

How authoritarianism is a containment vessel for the precarity anxiety generated by unfettered capitalism. My upcoming talk for the ISPP open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...

Thoughts upon waking up in Crete to the news from California open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...

On What Comes to Mind --see my piece on the unconscious origins of our political perceptions: open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Here's a piece of mine published in today's Atlanta Journal Constitution on the 1-year anniversary of the police riot on my campus. www.ajc.com/education/ge...

Here at Emory we are wondering why on earth is our university president not signing on to the AAC&U letter. Local newspaper story on this here: www.ajc.com/politics/uni...

A little psychoanalytic theorizing for our times. noellemcafee.substack.com/p/americas-q...

The difference between university presidents who are courageous, complicit, and cowardly. open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...

Interview with Joan Wallach Scott. mouvements.info/la-resistanc...

Next week I'll be giving a talk here: societyforcriticalexchange.org/winter-theor...

This college president isn’t afraid of Donald Trump

What do they want? To make America conform again. To make everyone afraid to be anyone. To kill your spirit. Screw them and #resist

Professor Michael Eng on Digital Wynter.

#resistance is a force that gives us meaning. The trumpians are trying to flood us and overwhelm us. Don’t get distracted. Focus on the 1 or 2 things you deeply care about and dive in deep there.

Email from Emory this morning: Yesterday, we became aware that study sections and advisory council meetings at the National Institutes of Health were canceled as a part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) communications pause. The DHHS communication pause is scheduled through Feb 1

Likely the Donald is pissed that he had to share the spotlight today with MLK so maybe one of his exec orders will be to rename today DJT day.

It's been nearly nine months since Emory University's administration called in outside police forces to violently terminate a peaceful. Only now is there some accountability. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

I am in the midst of a two+ week trip to Crete, basically a second home. Europe likes to claim this island as its birthplace but it is very much its own place. Likely Mediterraneans have more in common with each other than with any non-Mediterranean country.

Finally some good news in the world.

I came across a silent demonstration in one of the Emory libraries today: students studying with signs taped to their tables. The students — clearly stressed out but brave — preferred not to have their faces photographed, so here’s a detail.

RFK Jr on corn syrup www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/u...

RFK Jr is wrong about a lot of things but I think right about the perniciousness of corn syrup, processed carbs, seed oils, and fluoride in drinking water. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

220 days after being arrested, still facing charges, it never stops being weird to show up to work where the president of the university would just as soon see me in jail.

New extended version of the Overthink podcast on civil disobedience www.patreon.com/posts/117112...

I am grateful for my family, amazing colleagues and students, music coursing through my house, new friends, my black lab Rudie, this new community, all the ideas brimming to be written, and my sublime woodland garden. Happy day.

“Precapitulation” — my term for caving in to fascism or like horrors before the fact. All too familiar.

The Washington Post Excoriates the ICC for Issuing Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant. counterpunch.org/2024/11/27/t...

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/u... The authoritarian playbook at work: foment fear, consolidate executive power, curtail shared governance, militarize campuses, truncate thinking.

Making the most of the calm before the fascist storm.

My favorite Spotify playlist, a little gift to the Bluesky community to help see us through the new fascism: open.spotify.com/playlist/48X...

At the APT meeting this weekend I met the senior producer of Canada’s Ideas radio program and learned that a program featuring me was aired in late September. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... Ideas with Nahlah Ayed: Deliberation in a Time of Anger: Making Space for Collective Decision-Making

Returning home from the 2024 meeting of the Association for Political Theory where I ran a workshop on resisting the authoritarian tide in higher ed, which seems to be my current occupation.