Chad Wellmon
@chadwellmon.bsky.social
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teaches and writes at UVA
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After the University…page proofs
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I fell in that creek around 6am this morning. No gym but good snowy walk until that point.
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After the University…page proofs
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After the University
Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work
https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12220/after-university
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After the University
Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work
https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12220/after-university
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Incompetent malice…just, what?
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html
8 months ago
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I grew up near Hickory. This was my dad: 61, factory bought out, no pension, started at Lowes: “found work in service jobs that paid a fraction of factory wages, or left the labor force. Employment rates among men plummeted; rates of addiction, premature death soared.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...
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The ‘China Shock’ Offers a Lesson. It Isn’t the One Trump Has Learned.
Economists say the U.S. manufacturing decline in recent decades was not mainly about free trade, but about the pace of change without time to adjust.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/business/economy/tariffs-trump-china-shock.html
9 months ago
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“Abductions by government agents; unexplained, indefinite detentions; the targeting of allegedly dangerous ideas—Jews have been here before and it does not end well for us.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-jewish-antisemitism-wesleyan.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
9 months ago
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According to two **AEI** economists the Frump Team flubbed their formula: “the formula the administration relied on has no foundation in either economic theory or trade law.”
https://www.aei.org/economics/president-trumps-tariff-formula-makes-no-economic-sense-its-also-based-on-an-error/
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“Are we at the point where universities across the country must have presidents who are agreeable to President Trump or else risk calamitous cuts to their federal funding?”
https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-tenth-demand.html
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London Review of Books
9 months ago
‘If the words in “Capital” become overly familiar they lose their revelatory power and become yet another veil that purports, paradoxically, not to be a veil.’ Peter E. Gordon on a new translation of Marx:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter E. Gordon · Hair-splitting: Versions of Marx
One reason to welcome a new translation is that old terms and cadences tend to petrify: repeat a phrase often enough and...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/peter-e.-gordon/hair-splitting
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On translating and thinking with Marx: “There is a fetishism of commodities, but there is also a fetishism of authors and original meanings. Thinking with Marx can often mean thinking against him, or even past him.”
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter E. Gordon · Hair-splitting: Versions of Marx
One reason to welcome a new translation is that old terms and cadences tend to petrify: repeat a phrase often enough and...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/peter-e.-gordon/hair-splitting
9 months ago
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Columbia going hard
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
about 1 year ago
Here’s a recording of Chris’ amazing, deeply moving, and inspiring talk this afternoon on building a future for the humanities. So much to think about:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yVNc...
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Not a good start to the day when you’re trying to get the kid to school but are late because you’re talking (yelling?) back to the madness on NPR as they interview Dartmouth president and boy was that crazy.
about 1 year ago
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The costs of our on-demand & cheap lifestyle…great, in-depth reporting here
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...
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The Middlemen Linking Migrants in the U.S. to Your Shopping Cart
The incoming Trump administration promises an immigration crackdown. But for years, the on-demand economy has been fueled by unscrupulous staffing agencies exploiting migrant workers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/immigration-undocumented-migrants-jobs.html
about 1 year ago
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They’re nationalizing McKinsey & Company and the whole damn consultancy model.
about 1 year ago
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They’re nationalizing McKinsey & Company and the whole damn consultancy model.
about 1 year ago
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Whose democracy? “The Democrats bet that a desire to defend shared traditions, symbols of American democracy could transcend profound divides…America, as an ideal, was supposed to smooth over the contradictions. But “America” in this sense is over.”
www.thedriftmag.com/editors-note...
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Editors’ Note
Country Over Party
https://www.thedriftmag.com/editors-note-14/
about 1 year ago
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Brutal championship round finish to the fall season ends with pushups for many a missed sign.
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about 1 year ago
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Ignore Yale Facism School on NPR & read Shenk: “Resistance politics is reactionary….The other side decides the terms of debate; it ends w/ finding yet another norm under assault, a new outrage to be tutted over, another institution that needs protecting”
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/o...
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Opinion | This Rout Is an Opportunity for Democrats
Resistance politics inevitably feels conservative. It’s reactionary in a literal sense, and this week, it ended in disaster for the Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/opinion/democrats-resistance-trump.html?smid=tw-share
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