Thanks to everyone who participated in the discussion of the appointment of John Kirby to run the Institute of Politics. It’s rare to have so many faculty and students talking honestly about their concerns together. And thanks to @peterbeinart.bsky.social for joining us!

Looking forward to this!

Please join us next week at UChicago for a conversation with @peterbeinart.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, and @gabrielwinant.bsky.social

egregious choice akin to when Yale university hired the architect of Bush admin's "enhanced interrogation techniques," a decision for which they later apologized. it's still possible for U Chicago to amend this grave lapse of judgment, you can reach out here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The appointment of John Kirby to direct the Institute of Politics is shocking and disgraceful. Kirby misled the public systematically over a long period, over grave matters of life and death. He has no place in an institution committed to truthful inquiry or a democratic public sphere.

Thanks to everyone who came out in the rain last week to fight for the future and meaning of our work

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Great pieced by @mcmansionhell.bsky.social on thr UChicago money pit www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

Get ready! Be there!

Thanks to everyone who came to “Beyond the Quad” to kick off the year with a discussion of how to build solidarity on a wider basis in the face of gentrification, Medicaid cuts, and more. And thanks especially to panelists @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social , Dixon Romeo, JP Murray, and Cathy Cohen

Huge victory for @aaup.org in AAUP v. Rubio:

It’s easy to fear that academics are too isolated to defend ourselves if you don’t know about the struggles going on all around us, and the connections—real and possible—between us and the larger community. Come learn and talk about it on 10/1 at 11 am!

"In this moment, the thing that will actually get us through this, is solidarity...It's up the federal workers that are actually in the building to do that, & that's what FUN is about. We make sure people know they are not alone." - FUN organizer Paul Osadebe. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgsW...

Academic freedom will not survive by encouraging professors to censor themselves more. “Too much of the response to the Trump admin’s repression has been driven by fear & cowardice. We need to fiercely support #academicfreedom as a fundamental right for all.” — @johnkwilson.bsky.social

Victory to the resident doctors at UChicago Medicine in their fight for a first contract!

It’s easy to fear that academics are too isolated to defend ourselves if you don’t know about the struggles going on all around us, and the connections—real and possible—between us and the larger community. Come learn and talk about it on 10/1 at 11 am!

All of us at the university budget town hall heard the same thing when the president said that donors liked the “sharpening” we’ve done and will reward future “sharpening,” right?

We love free flowing dialogue don’t we folks

Happy to return to my other home and chop it up at the UChicago Center for Contemporary Theory and also build with @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social All my Chicagoland peoples, please come thru on September 30...this Higher Ed crisis is deeper than "corporatization." ccct.uchicago.edu/events/beyon...

The attack on our freedom on campus can't be avoided, it has to be confronted and defeated