More or less every liberal argument in favor of American hegemony either pretends MENA is an area of exemption from international norms or, more perversely, Israel is actually an embodiment of international norms. Either way the only conclusion to take is that Arabs are not included in liberalism.

I think its wrong to presume his econ policy was very good. For ex: his incredible successes on poverty, esp. child poverty, expired, so his term ended with higher poverty rates than it began. Its not surprising that an admin that presided over increases in poverty might lose re-election.

I'm astonished how many negative responses there are to Osita's post. Here is Adam Tooze, a few days ago, on the bigger-than-the-Marshall-Plan Chinese global leadership in the transition away from fossil fuels: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women. It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

It is not talked about enough that Joe Manchin voted to double child poverty and then immediately retired to spend more time with his millions

dudes rock

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Teaching the best essay ever written by an American again tomorrow and I really caught my breath encountering this metaphor this time around

Every day, for two years, prominent leaders of the party I ostensibly support have slandered me and my colleagues and many of my friends, and frankly, I’m sick of it

Antisemitism aside, college isn't even a factor in Americans public attitudes toward Israel and its actions in Gaza. 2/2 sadat.umd.edu/sites/sadat....

Sen. Slotkin says that ‘a lot of young people’ who don’t know better are coming to college campuses and hearing and repeating antisemitic narratives. This is highly misleading: Polls show Americans with college education have more favorable views Of Jews than those without. 1/2

Good chance of Israel being suspended from the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) this week. This move would have devastating implications for Israeli football, and would be the most significant move of cultural sanction against Israel in decades.

The Biden-Harris admin deciding that shutting down anti-genocide speech was more worthwhile than shutting down the genocide itself helped lead us to Trump-Vance, which is shredding whatever was left of the “First Amendment” & mockingly revealing how hollow their allies’ commitments to it were

Now that you're (justly) angry about Jimmy Kimmel, did you know that Palestinian Americans were evicted in 2023 and 2024 for flying Palestinian flags in their windows? It's true. I have a case before the Seventh Circuit about it.

Biggest terrorist attack on journalists since Charlie Hebdo. I'm sure everyone will be covering it

I wrote a short piece on definitions that conflate anti/semitism with (anti)-Zionism and the dangers that their adoption poses specifically for international lawyers, including for our Palestinian colleagues and students: voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa...

A map of the Israeli proposal to Syria was released by an American think tank, it has Israel -Staying in the Golan. -Staying in Mount Hermon. -Expanding the buffer zone in Quneitra. And would have Syria also concede to -Daraa demilitarized. -Suwayda no-fly zone for the Syrian Air Force.

Choice quote from @linkletter.org

The crackdown on dissenting speech after the Kirk assassination is extremely bad. But it is hard for me, a person who lived through 2001-03 and 2023-24, to see it as in any way unprecedented.

The uniting theme of the supposed age of AI and the M&A/private equity apocalypse is that the world is controlled by people who literally cannot imagine ever deriving joy or meaning or satisfaction from any activity or pursuit for its own sake if it doesn't make money.

Sorry to be crass but I do think about Sir Mix-A-Lot every time I make red beans and rice

people have already mentioned SNEAKERs, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR and of course ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN as great redford performances, let me recommend THE CANDIDATE, which is really one of the best movies ever made about american politics

still slaps onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/as...

What’s the German word for how tired you are when you wake up at 5am Sunday to run a half-marathon, but then you have to stay up working past midnight to pre-record virtual lectures for your Monday classes b/c your kid spiked a fever, and then you take care of your sick kid all Monday

Obama brought us to this place in 2011, and then he handed off the keys to our terrifying drone bombing infrastructure to Trump en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_a...

The last several days have demonstrated that we need a stronger labor movement to protect worker’s free speech rights

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... The free speech crusade will continue until complete conformity and submission are achieved.

What are the most effective things—even if they sound extreme—that we can do to limit, and ideally abolish, the unauthorized use of AI on campus? www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Books, magazines. and classrooms are great antidotes to the toxic rabbit holes of cable news, social media, ChatGPT, and video games. Unfortunately the resources of our society are devoted to building up the latter and destroying the former.

He said I don't want HUD I want to be Chairman of the Board of Hudsucker Industries

A short First Amendment 🧵: First, the professor was fired b/c he urged "revolutionary socialists" to organize: “Without organization, how can anyone expect to overthrow the most bloodthirsty, profit-driven, mad organization in the history of the world — that of the United States?”

Also, as an experiment, people should figure out what the real legal basis of their tenure is. This will be different at different schools -- but at least at private schools, you're looking at contractual guarantees, backed by accreditation standards.

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

In the past 24 hours, Israel has bombed: • Palestine (Gaza) • Syria (Homs, Latakia, Palmyra) • Lebanon (Hermel, Bekaa) •Tunisia (aid flotilla) and now • Qatar (Doha)

Two quick conclusions about the Israeli attack on Hamas leaders in Doha: 1. US must have known or even coordinated with Israel, given US air base in Qatar and likely repercussions. 2. It's clear this the end of negotiations which means Israel is now in full ethnic cleansing mode.

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

Told you so. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/s...

An enterprising journalist @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social should ask the Faculty Director of Harvard Kennedy School's Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights what he thinks of today's SCOTUS ruling, since he once wrote a philosophical defense of racial profiling onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

a really wonderfully considered piece from @nymag.com. cultural criticism is the heartbeat of american cultural production and its history. the form gives tangibility to how we remember and how critique brings us to a place of societal betterment…. there is no life worth living without it.

I think it’s hard for outsiders to grasp how low staff and faculty morale get at universities where everyone’s job gets worse every year because there’s a hiring freeze and program cuts and any real money is locked up in new projects meant to help higher admin shine so they can move somewhere better

Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah resumed a full hunger strike on September 1 following unfulfilled promises made to him by national security officers that he would be released within days after his removal from the terrorist list. He is only drinking water. #FreeAlaa

the hurricane katrina series i co-curated at MoMA, “when the world broke open: katrina and its afterlives” continues through september 21. today at 3 pm: we are screening spike lee’s monumental “when the levees broke” IN ITS ENTIRETY (!!!) a very rare chance to see one of his best works in cinema!

In his latest column, David Brooks leans on Daniel Patrick Moynihan in claiming that culture matters in explaining poverty. Sociologist Stephen Steinberg exhaustively refuted these claims in our pages after @nytimes.com ran a similar story, “‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback,” in 2010:

For anyone out there playing Trump/Grover Cleveland bingo, you can mark off the “sends gunboats to Venezuela” square

You are thinking of the space race, not the Manhattan project. The Manhattan project was set up out of concern that Nazi Germany would make a Nuclear weapon first. You should have middle school textbook level historical knowledge.

Quincy does some annoying things (like this), but they’re a huge net positive for the left on foreign policy, and it’s weird how much ire they draw imo

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