I just started a Substack. it is called "Critique & Praxis." If it had a subtitle, it would be "Channel 13/13." Please give it a read here: substack.com/@bernardharc...

Just posted a full intro essay to Hegel 13/13 that explores the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 and family resemblances with Hegel on the family, civil society, and state - and argues for a different path forward. Read here the1313.law.columbia.edu/2025/09/15/0.... Video here youtu.be/i6TaQD_4pfY

If you don't follow the 13/13 series at Columbia you should. There is an academic lifetime of critical thought in these seminars.

Hegel always has something to teach us when it comes to understanding transitions, such as the transition from old Europe to Modernity. And, of course, he can teach us how to turn the world upside down ("auf den Kopf stellen") in the best possible way.

"To confront Hegel's contradictions and invent a new politics": Just posted a short introduction to the new seminar series Hegel 13/13 coming up this year at @columbiaccct.bsky.social Text version online here: the1313.law.columbia.edu/2025/09/04/b... Video version here: youtu.be/bI71BbVa92s

On another front, Alabama's gas executions are “like watching somebody drown without water.” Horrifying testimony about a form of torture, where the person likely is conscious for about four minutes while they are being killed by asphyxiation. We must stop this. Article at www.al.com/news/2025/09...

OK, here's the new website for Hegel 13/13: hegel1313.law.columbia.edu. Soon we begin with preparatory sessions (informal conversations, small seminars, reading groups, lectures) to lay the groundwork for the full seminars. The ambition: to develop a new critical praxis for these times of crisis...

Coming this year: Hegel 13/13 a multi-year project that explores the historical confrontations with G.W.F. Hegel’s thought, from 19th century to the present, with the aim of developing new critical perspectives and practices for today’s times of crisis. I am building the website now, stay tuned...

Room XXV 🇺🇳 is now full for the no-show of the US government for it’s own UPR pre-session @bernardharcourt.bsky.social @dralicestorey.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com

#Radio 📻 🇺🇸 @bernardharcourt.bsky.social (juriste au @lab-iris.bsky.social#Radio était invité par France Culture pour discuter du tournant autoritaire pris par le mandat de Donald #Trump aux États-Unis. 👉 À écouter ici : https://urlr.me/z8wPEB

Important victory by Alabama Death Row prisoner Christopher Barbour and his legal team, including George Kendall and Nika Cohen, granting habeas relief based on prosecutor's withholding of favorable DNA evidence (what's called a Brady claim). More here: www.alreporter.com/2025/08/29/j...

"each inmate previously executed using Alabama's nitrogen hypoxia protocol was observed to gasp for air and struggle against their harness for several minutes after the nitrogen would begin to flow and showed signs of conscious suffocation, terror, and pain." www.cbsnews.com/news/alabama...

“What happened here was the result of pure unbridled blood lust and cowardice,” said Kelley Henry, chief of the capital habeas unit. “It was the brutal and unchecked abuse of government power.” Mr. Byron Black was executed by Tennessee today. May he rest in peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

Rashid Khalidi is a brilliant critical theorist and historian, and an exceptional colleague and friend at Columbia. His course this summer @nssrnews.bsky.social at the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry was so important to our students. This is a great loss: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

UPDATE on my Alabama death penalty client David Wilson: Alabama just filed a 166-page Answer to our 493-page First Amended Petition for Habeas Corpus: cccct.law.columbia.edu/sites/cccct..... I am now writing a lengthy Reply. More information on David's case at: cccct.law.columbia.edu/content/davi...

🇺🇸 "L’idée très américaine qu’on est libre quand on peut faire ou dire ce qu’on veut est une illusion". Professeur à Columbia et avocat de condamnés à mort, @bernardharcourt.bsky.social lance la série d'été de La Croix sur la liberté. Merci à lui pour son temps ! www.la-croix.com/internationa...

This is terrible news. I feel lucky I got to know him. I was amazed that he would attend your seminars on Foucault along with litigating anti-terror policies and helping out protesters pro bono. I hope his generosity, wit and passion will inspire many. Thank you, Tom...

Devastated. Now headed to Chicago for the service at Old Saint Patrick’s for the passionate, inspiring, moral exemplar, critical theorist and theologian, comrade in arms, and advocate for the damned, Tom Durkin. The New York Times fittingly printed his tribute yesterday in their pages.

Sad to see that the troubles in higher education are extending to my old haunt UChicago. chicagomaroon.com/48215/news/u...

Marianne Hirsch is a brilliant critical theorist and inspiring colleague. A pillar of our critical community here at Columbia. apnews.com/article/colu...

Excellent nuanced analysis of the recent survey data on student sentiment on campus at Columbia: www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

Heartbroken to learn that Thomas Durkin, who Bernard and I co-counseled with on several Line 3 protester cases, has died 💔

Farewell to a comrade-in-arms, a fierce advocate, a fellow critical philosopher, a man of faith and ethics: Thomas Anthony Durkin. Your life and your struggles will guide us now. May we live up to them and to your memory. Farewell. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/u...

I've been thinking all morning about the birth of Vichy France. I should reread our brilliant Columbia University colleague Robert O. Paxton's landmark book, "Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order," published by Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social | cup.columbia.edu/book/vichy-f...

Die August-»Blätter« sind da! Mit Beiträgen von: @yvesvenedey.de, @anjakrueger.bsky.social, @trittin.de, @crimewatch.bsky.social, @dfeher.bsky.social, @pawelkarolewski.bsky.social, @bernardharcourt.bsky.social, @antjeschrupp.bsky.social u.v.a. www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...

Intense debate on the state of American democracy on ‪@franceculture.fr with @matteocaranta.bsky.social‬ ‪@eleonorabottini.bsky.social and Lumir Lapray: "Jusqu'à quand pourra-t-on parler de la démocratie en Amérique ?" www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur... @ehess.fr @lab-iris.bsky.social

My essay on Trump's second term just published in German at the Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik: "Mit einer Flut von Präsidialdekreten hat Präsident Donald Trump die Axt an den US-amerikanischen Regierungsapparat und die globale Ordnung gelegt": www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...

🧐 Jusqu'à quand pourra-t-on parler de la démocratie en Amérique ? Rendez-vous ce soir à 18 h 15 ce soir en présence @bernardharcourt.bsky.social, @eleonorabottini.bsky.social et Lumir Lapray. (c) Crédit Photo : Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP

Jusqu'à quand pourra-t-on parler de la démocratie en Amérique ? Les contre-pouvoirs résistent-ils suffisamment à ces attaques répétées ? 👉 Rendez-vous ce soir à 18h15 pour en parler avec @bernardharcourt.bsky.social, @eleonorabottini.bsky.social et Lumir Lapray. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

"Il n’y a qu’en pensant la liberté dans toute sa complexité qu’on y parviendra": Merci 🙏 pour la belle conversation avec Alexis Buisson @la-croix.com Hebdo 👇

Rethinking liberty in these dark times, as something that we need to construct together. Lengthy interview (in French) with @la-croix.com's Alexis Buisson on all the labor that liberty calls for. Read here l.la-croix.com/FSA | www.la-croix.com/internationa... @ehess.fr @lab-iris.bsky.social

NY state is controlled by Democrats who could preempt this stupid law, if they wanted to

NEW ON THE CTWG SITE MARGIN NOTES: A JOURNAL OF CRITICAL THEORY V1: KERNELS OF EARLY CRITICAL THEORY Critical Theory is only right in a wrong world. Link: ctwgwebsite.github.io/projects/1_p...

Our friend and colleague, Nascimento Blair, former JIE Scholar @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, was detained by ICE and deported to Jamaica in late February 2025. He was one of the first to be expelled. He tells his story powerfully in his own words: justiceineducation.columbia.edu/when-is-a-cr...

Totalitarianism or counterrevolution? On Hannah Arendt's 1951 book on *The Origins and Elements of Totalitarianism* and how it reads today... Terrific interview with the brilliant journalist Sarah Heinzmann at Radio Bern RaBe, Switzerland (in German) 🙏 Online here: rabe.ch/beitrag/04-0...

One more classic step in the modern counterrevolution: New interview in French review Esprit (esprit.presse.fr) on the repression of the protests in Los Angeles. Main point: the political struggle is the grey area of law. Read here: esprit.presse.fr/actualites/b... @ehess.fr @lab-iris.bsky.social

We need to build alliances across countries. Just had a great visit and conversation with Pouria Amirshahi of the French National Assembly, co-founder of the new "Digue" coalition against rising fascism. More about the Digue here: www.liberation.fr/politique/a-... Follow them on Insta at ladigue_

A death row inmate has standing to bring a §1983 claim challenging a state's post-conviction DNA testing procedures under the Due Process Clause. #SCOTUS opinion 6/26 written by Justice Sotomayor in Texas case involving Ruben Gutierrez. Opinion at this link here: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Excellent and important new book review at ‪@fabula-lht.bsky.social‬ (in French) of Michel Foucault's "Nietzsche," the recent book of Foucault's lectures, conferences, and manuscripts on Nietzsche published by @editionsduseuil.bsky.social‬. The shadows of Nietzsche: www.fabula.org/revue/docume...

The Republican attack on African Americans and this country’s greatest strength of diversity. I hope this video embeds: www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol... Article in open access is here, gift article from The New York Times. You can read for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil is released from detention and briefly addresses media before catching a flight back to New York. This occurs after a federal judge concludes that no basis exists for him to be retained and orders his release.

The federal judge in Newark just ruled that Mahmoud Khalil must be released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana. Article here: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/n...

«Trumps Durchgreifen in Los Angeles entspricht klassischen Strategien der Aufstandsbekämpfung.» Columbia-Professor @bernardharcourt.bsky.social über ICE als Stosstrupp, die USA auf dem Weg zum Polizeistaat und das Potenzial einer Revolte. Interview: @annajik.bsky.social www.woz.ch/2525/us-a...

The African American and African Diaspora Studies Department @columbiauniversity.bsky.social is launching a groundbreaking new PhD program. This is a very exciting and important development. I am proud to be an affiliated faculty member. Here's more information about the program vimeo.com/1094118048

For the cover story of the Swiss weekly @woz.ch, in an in-depth conversation with the brilliant journalist ‪@annajik.bsky.social‬, I discuss the storm troops of the ongoing counterrevolution. Here is the interview, in German.

Trumps zweite Amtszeit als Abrissphase einer langjährigen Gegenrevolution: Für die aktuelle @woz.ch habe ich mit dem Columbiaprofessor @bernardharcourt.bsky.social gesprochen – über Strategien der Aufstandsbekämpfung, die USA auf dem Weg zum Polizeistaat – und das Potenzial einer Revolte.

New interview in German in ‪@woz.ch‬ with Anna Jikhareva on the current political situation in the USA: "die Erschaffung eines Raums zwischen Legalität und Illegalität, in dem politische Auseinandersetzungen darüber entscheiden, was erlaubt ist und was nicht." Online here www.woz.ch/2525/us-auto...

A brilliant piece in @theguardian.com by @bernardharcourt.bsky.social It’s a must read for all who want to preserve the university as free and independent institutions which help us discuss and discover the best explanations of what is right and true in our world www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thank you @eraldo.bsky.social for your brilliant work!

I have a new piece in @theguardian.com about the Trump administration assault on Harvard and Columbia, where I try to document the decades-long history of the Republican assault on higher education. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...