There is a very odd discourse shift where I’m seeing people posting that the Nuremberg Trials let off most defendants on technicalities, which is wildly untrue. There has been a transposition from “denazification didn’t go far enough” to “there was no denazification at all” for some people.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

»Können wir jetzt endlich eine ernsthafte Diskussion über eine antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik führen?« Unser Buch des Monats kommt erst im Oktober – kann aber jetzt schon vorgemerkt werden: »Antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik« (shrk.vg/Wirtschaftsp...) von @isabellamweber.bsky.social.

Can't overstate how dangerous and depressing it is that there's a cottage industry of shameless charlatans who see it as their mission to validate every id-driven obsession, grudge-fueled preoccupation, and long-held bigotry of the racist, senile old grifter we put in the White House.

One of the problems with social media is that most people irrespective of ideology are functionally illiterate.

COVER REVEAL!!!! PROJECT 1933: FASCISM THEN AND NOW is coming on October 20, 2026. You can preorder it now: www.amazon.com/Project-1933...

They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

Damn, imagine being an academic who is this stupid. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...

the choice is never neoliberalism or fascism. insufficiently managed and regulated economic liberalism yields social dysfunction then fascism as backlash and synthesis. they are complements, not substitutes.

The only acceptable answer from 2028 presidential candidates is "yes, I'll demolish it."

Pretty good turnout in Blacksburg

Photo reel looks like stills from Conner O'Malley's Rap World

"beautiful luminous Shadow of my pencil point following it from the Candle – rather going before it & illuminating the word" Coleridge close to delirium, Notebooks, Dec 1803

Illegal war conducted according to the rhythms of the stock market is the kind of phenomenon one might associate with the pedophile oligarch era

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Which generation of the Frankfurt School is Alex Karp?

Surely someone has already pointed out the imperial-boomerang parallels between the „Green Zone“ in US-occupied Iraq and Trump admin officials’ flight to military housing

At some point, we have to think about what it means to do peer review in disciplines where an ever growing number of scholars are being shut out of the security of tenure-line faculty appointments

I think some on this website and in general are confused. Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. I have written I do not know how many pieces saying this. Also, if you are using anti-Zionism as an opportunity to say hateful things about Jews qua Jews, you are, I am sorry to say, being antisemitic.

In seeking to liberate the US from the constraints of interdependence and multilateralism, both features of the liberal international order he disavows, Trump has only demonstrated the limits (and dangers) of American power when applied unilaterally. Some takeaways from the war. (Gift link.)

This latest season of Industry was great, I especially liked how the show connected the glittery world of tech start-ups and finance with fascism and prostitution.

Jurgen Häagen-Dazs Has Died.

The critical response to this report isn't just to be shocked and outraged at the Trump admin's actions, but to consider the possibility that "democracy" in the US was already shallow and anemic before MAGA appeared on the political scene as a totalitarian force

Good morning. I wrote a guest essay for the New York Times about the rise of "anxiety cinema," from Uncut Gems to Shiva Baby to If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. I argue that the more daily life feels like a panic attack, the more the great movies of our time are reflecting that feeling back at us:

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

Ich bin sicher kein ‚Habermas-Schüler’, aber trotz aller philosophischen und (in letzter Zeit auch großen) politischen Differenzen hat mich vor allem sein frühes Werk stark geprägt. Und auch Habermas als Person hat mich nachhaltig beeindruckt. 1/5

Devastating night last night for the Dootle Dots, especially Baxter - the ultimate Oscar loser

Party is more aligned with duplicitous university administrators than the faculty and staff who actually vote for them

Gravlax 👍

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

In Zeilen fassen, was zu groß für ein paar Zeilen ist: www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

We are 2 days away from Oscar.

Pythia oracle

"The pre-show reminds us what is nominated for best picture. It’s a pretty good lineup, minus Crash, so there’s an 80 percent chance that something worthwhile wins best picture! That’s great!"

It’s amazing that Richard Pryor is in Lost Highway.

The same type of people you'd find manning the guard towers of concentration camps.

The future of Republican politics is Hitlerism

FET-FISK in Pittsburgh 👍

Bob Dylan devotes five pages of his memoir “Chronicles: Volume One” to the song “Pirate Jenny” from “The Threepenny Opera” … (1/2)

The Iran War is a post-democratic war waged by pedophile oligarchs

This verbal tic is presumably an implicit reference to the final lines of Kafka‘s The Trial

As Arendt observes, if human rights are dependent on individual states for enforcement, they will always be dependent on citizenship status. This is what allows ghouls like Miller to do what they do. The only way to actually achieve human rights is to abolish borders.

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“ A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

The VSU ‘Fired Six’ takes the Virginia State Capitol to demand their jobs back & for the General Assembly to pass full collective bargaining rights for all higher ed workers. www.courthousenews.com/home-care-an...

In Zeiten atomarer Aufrüstung, Klimakatastrophe und Weltuntergangsstimmung wird der Philosoph Günther Anders gern herangezogen. Die Tagung »Kritische Theorie der Endzeit« ging seiner Gegenwärtigkeit auf den Grund.

Fitting that in America’s final form, the epicenter of evil will be a private golf resort for wealthy pedophiles.

The Israeli right worked really hard to achieve this incredible goal. You have to admire the tenacity.

German Memory Politics at a Crossroads Very happy to be part of this new special issue I wrote my article “Staatsräson as State Racism: Notes on the Authoritarian Turn in Contemporary Germany” last spring … and the authoritarian turn hasn’t slowed down read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...