“When universities abandon faculty under attack, when they violate their own governance procedures, when they tell contradictory stories about their motivations, when they refuse basic transparency about their decision-making—they’re not protecting their institutions. They’re hollowing them out.”

“There’s a particular kind of despair that comes from watching an institution abandon its principles in real time…What’s the political cost of supporting our own people versus the cost of quietly surrendering?” Powerful words from a TCU colleague. www.texasobserver.org/tcu-eliminat...

I should probably mention if TV or radio producers need a knowledgeable art reporter specializing in art crime to talk about the theft at the Louvre, I am available

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them. If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

"If your first amendment rights are threatened, and you don't show up because you're afraid, then you already don't have first amendment rights." Ezra Levin #Maddow See you Saturday, October 18, for No Kings demonstration.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

Which university will be the first to fail the latest Lando Test? www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

"Please clap." (LDP presidential candidate Motegi Toshimitsu edition) At 1:50~ mark in this clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vfy...

Part of ICE’s efforts will be setting up random traffic stops and checkpoints throughout the city and making educated guesses about who to detain and who not to detain. These 'Guess Stops' will be staffed by special agents known as Guess Stop Officers, or 'Guess-Stop-O for short.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Mario Guevara is here legally and is not facing any criminal charges. He is being thrown out of the country for nothing but reporting news.

When the state was well-governed, Master Ning Wu was wise, but when the state was ill-governed, he pretended to be foolish. His wisdom can be surpassed, but his foolishness is unsurpassable. 子曰：「甯武子邦有道則知，邦無道則愚。其知可及也，其愚不可及也。」

Thrilled to share my new book about trade politics, corporate lobbying, and the backlash to globalization in developed countries. #polisci #PoliticalEconomy #Economics #Polisky

53 of my articles and books used to train the AI without my permission 😳

I just filled out the form. I encourage my fellow academics and other authors to do the same!

Opinion | American democracy is gone. I'm not going to miss it. by Bret Stephens

The real Thucydides Trap all along: Athens succumbing to demagoguery.

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

Big personal news! After 11 years at UMaine, this fall I will start a new position as the inaugural Mansfield Chair of Japan and Indo-Pacific Affairs at the University of Montana. I will miss my colleagues and students in Maine, and am thrilled for this next adventure! www.umt.edu/news/2025/02...

Must read. Incredible and thoughtful first-person account. Surprisingly, the most shocking part is not journalists and college professors being arrested. It’s police trapping the crowd—giving a disperse order while blocking all the exits. via @smotus.bsky.social smotus.substack.com/p/arrested-i...

Very excited to listen to this new series! @empirepoduk.bsky.social is absolutely fabulous and I recommend starting at the very beginning with British imperialism in India. @willdalrymple.bsky.social's work on the EIC is an essential (and horrifying) lens for the contemporary moment.

Nice. Political scientists could edit this to: "These claims have been made [by economists] in the apparent absence of any awareness of the theoretical framework of [pick any political phenomena]...that has existed for decades."

East German-style reporting people to the authorities

It's the one year book-iversary of Holding It Together, and I think its message is more urgent than ever. Because the book is about how the US came to rely on women as its safety net. But that story is fundamentally a story of what happens when billionaires don't want to pay their fair share. 1/

Ah yes, as guaranteed in the First Amendment, Americans may enjoy free speech as long as it’s in sync with what the administration is trying to accomplish

actually i think people in the united states, citizen or not, should feel able to speak their minds without fear of government retaliation and that this is a pretty basic requirement for human freedom in this country or elsewhere

Agree with this. The US starts out w a lot going in its favor. Location, scale, resources, etc But of the ways the US has *made* its success (as opposed to lucking into it), these 3 rank very high. All connected by university system. A saboteur could not do more than Trump + servile GOP are doing

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

It's a failure of the IR field that Mearsheimer's 2014 FA article has 2400+ citations and is still considered credible despite being falsified by events, whereas Grigas' 2016 book, which predicted Ru's further expansion and its tools/pretexts, has >300 citations. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

This was SB99 from 2023. I spoke against this bill on 3 different occasions on the house floor, including the "blood on your hands" speech. I am glad this bill has been permanently defeated. And that Montana's constitution continues to protect trans people from government overreach and animus.

Overjoyed by the release of another political prisoner.

Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

Exclusive: 'What are they doing illegal?' officer says before arresting pro-Palestine students www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

You've heard of the many analysts projects, right? Scholars give the same dataset/question to a bunch of researchers & they still get different answers. Why is that? Data cleaning! This is consistent with Gelman's "garden of forking paths." Small coding decisions often drive results.

Jared Golden = Judgy Gaslighter #mepolitics www.crashbarry.com/p/jared-gold...

“What makes you so much worthier of your peace… of protecting your children… of your citizenship… of safety?” This is it. This is precisely it.

If they're willing to erase some people, they are prepared to erase all people. We need to treat these actions as assaults - on everyone.

If we know where they were sent, but it isn’t to detention: exile. If we know where they are & it’s in detention: extraordinary rendition. If we don’t know where they are, but we know someone’s holding them: kidnapping. Otherwise, if we don’t know where they are: disappearance.

One thing you have to keep in mind with history is that everything seems impossible until it isn't. This is why you have to fight for what is right even if it seems impossible. Trumpism seems overwhelming now, but that doesn't mean it's going to last forever. It might suddenly collapse! 1/x

🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

Here is the chart (even from the NYT!) that illustrates the abject poverty of this op-ed. We need to stop writing about "What Higher Education Institutions Must Do" by ignoring the large, fat end of this distribution of institutions/students & pretending the small, thin end is the entire system.

The US, UK, and The Netherlands are all gutting their excellent and very international higher ed systems, through budget cuts and nativist language. Short-sighted impulse politics that will cost money and soft power. And a huge opportunity for other countries to increase theirs…

No single person should have the power to do what Trump is doing right now unilaterally dictating world trade & fucking with the world economy. No person should have that power. Certainly not in this country. Shame on you Congressional Republicans for giving it to him. Shame on you.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.