Beyond ridiculous decision www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

On modern China, see press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Found Rule of Experts overrated but @adamtooze.bsky.social’s Statistics and the German State is outstanding and so worthy of being retaught and re-read. Prob my favorite of his books after Wages

Private consultants are taking control of how public universities are evaluated and run. My submission to the Senate university governance inquiry raises concerns about the impact of Nous Group and their dodgy UniForum data on our universities. www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor... A thread

And let me take this opportunity to say again: WHITE PPL ARE NOT OPPRESSED IN SOUTH AFRICA

Celebrating my beloved, brilliant colleague Prasenjit Duara on the occasion of his 75th and his retirement. “Colleague” doesn’t quite encompass my fondness and gratitude. Prasenjit has been mentor, teacher, friend, and teammate. I am so happy we will be toasting and roasting him for two whole days!

thank u to @itihaasnaama.bsky.social for recommending my new book The Future That Was alongside these amazing authors @kalramnath.bsky.social @abalasub.bsky.social 🥰💕 youtube.com/shorts/S99MW...

A brief statement on my resignation from ANU Council.

All cuts, at all Unis, should be stopped until the rot at the top of every single one of them has been thoroughly examined. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

8/8 The issue ends with a second regular review by Raheel Bashir (Jawaharlal Nehru University) on "Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India" (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2023) by @abalasub.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC' FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it? WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

I’m sorry what? I was not aware anyone taught grad students how to read 😭 Both my schools just threw us into the theory fire. “Here’s Chakrabarty. Good luck” 😘 Make this a great thread plz.

This map shows how unevenly Nobel Prizes have been distributed across the world.

Taylor Fritz is getting clowned by players like Shelton and Tiafoe about a video in which he couldn't do basic multiplication, but there's a bigger story about how tennis players are being set up to succeed—and fail—on social media videos. Read it at Bounces: www.benrothenberg.com/p/taylor-fri...

There is a special place in hell for T&F

This is based on an interview I did last week. For days, I’ve been anxious about repercussions for speaking to media. I was totally overwhelmed to discover today that my colleagues have all stuck their necks out with me. I have the best colleagues! www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901572...

Honours student, Pippa, spoke about her thesis on the history of higher education in Australia which was about “universities and governments putting profits over people.” She said she would like to see Vice Chancellor Bell, “demanding more public funding.” www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901699...

What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky. So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵

I just texted a friend that celebrity culture in academia should die but every rule has exceptions. Friends, Romans, the woman who gave us Life as Surplus, Family Values, Counterrevolution and more has joined and made this platform worth it. Welcome, Melinda! Follow her!! @melindacooper.bsky.social

Comrades! Friends! Nemeses! The CfP for the annual meeting of Australian Progressive Legal Studies is open until next Friday, 11th of July. Send us your abstracts on all things law, political economy and modern authoritarianism. The one and only Melinda Cooper (!!!) will deliver the keynote.

Breaking news: Former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo has conceded to progressive rival Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary for New York City’s next mayor www.ft.com/content/e4b8...

Hello recent History PhDs! My School is supporting applications to the BA postdoc fellowship scheme (and selected applications to the Leverhulme). If you've always wanted to work with me or my super colleagues, get in touch! We have an excellent grants team to help you write your application.

there are a million reasons not to vote for cuomo but let’s start with the fact that he doesn’t fucking live here

""I honestly don't feel like we've had anything from the university executive apart from gaslighting, from day one, it's really demoralising," one attendee said." @nteunion.bsky.social stands with #ANU staff. Things cannot continue as they are. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/899465...

Seems fitting that Trump named his social network after Pravda.

Super chuffed to get an AHR review! academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

Very grateful for this review of Toward a Free Economy in Pacific Affairs by Yasser Ali Nasser! arts-pacificaffairs-2024.sites.olt.ubc.ca/book-reviews...

Read it and weep on.ft.com/3FGos7B

i uploaded A Night of Knowing Nothing and the short films of Payal Kapadia onto the internet archive. archive.org/details/a.-nig…

The great historian of Southeast Asia, Anthony (Tony) Reid, died yesterday in Canberra, aged 85. His studies transformed our understanding of Indonesia and the region. A professor at the ANU for many years, he also founded institutes at UCLA & NUS. And he was a lovely person

On Coco Gauff and her parents, a feel-good story in a sport full of cautionary tales, who were the big winners today at #RolandGarros. www.benrothenberg.com/p/coco-gauff...

Super excited for this. Yay Durba!!

Thank you to all the many new subscribers who have joined Bounces to read the Wim Fissette interview that went up last night, glad folks are enjoying it! If you haven’t yet subscribed or are on the fence, these happy folks can vouch for it! www.benrothenberg.com/p/wim-fisset...

In today’s @thehindu.com, my obituary for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: A Life of Defiance — www.thehindu.com/books/author...

In 1989 2 historians gave me a trunk full of material they’d used to write a book on the history of EDF.* Yesterday I finally got to pay it forward by giving to a grad student 18 boxes of painstakingly assembled photocopies of documents related to the early history of the French nuclear program

A rare work of history that gets more relevant with every year that passes following its publication.

Christ, Outlook is terrible

imagine WANTING to receive two million emails

Congrats, ALP you really thought this one through

I’m reading an incredible book, which somehow manages to describe, in concrete terms, complex processes like globalisation, financialisation, the transformation of global energy markets, and the rise of state capitalism - all through the story of a single ship…! www.waterstones.com/book/empty-v...

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

When I was a PhD student, I wrote to President Carter asking of his relationship with Thatcher. It was a long shot & never in a million years did I believe he’d respond. He will forever be my favourite historical source & a President that I can’t not admire. I’ve read everything he’s ever said #RIP

In case they skip over it in the obituaries, Jimmy Carter was the first and so far only US president to name the oppression of Palestinians as apartheid. He even wrote a whole book about it. bookshop.org/p/books/pale...

The alleviation of women's abuse "is made less likely by the mandated subservience of women by Christian fundamentalists. What is especially disappointing...is the docile acceptance by so many strong Christian women of their subjugation & restricted role." - Jimmy Carter (RIP)