If you happen to be in Doha on the 8th of January, this is promising to be a terrific conversation with some of the most thoughtful and principled colleagues out there: www.hbku.edu.qa/en/academic-...

Today, Amna Akbar continues our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts,* reflecting on what her account of capitalism tells us about the state and law as terrains of struggle.

What a time to decide to learn less about the world. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...

I used to think that Stiegler's use of the term "proletarianization" to refer to the general deskilling of everyday knowledge in consumer society to be hyperbolic, but then I started reading about people who "ask AI" to do all sorts of everyday tasks. www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/01/it-i...

Two Lectureships in Law with us at @lawatleeds.bsky.social. Open call, 'An ability to contribute to teaching in one or more of the foundational LLB subjects is essential.' Genuinely a lovely bunch of people to be around. In the present HE context, it matters! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech. This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.

A new era for LPE — a more democratic one, not subject to university administrators and not reliant on funder money. LPE lfg lpeproject.org/blog/lpe-2-0...

I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too. "We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

"When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47 percent drop in neural connectivity... their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage. Eighty-three percent of heavy AI users couldn’t recall key points from what they’d “written"...

"When offered a poem, and time, and attention, and good faith, my students offered their own arguments back as if they had been waiting their whole lives for the chance; they reciprocated my trust many times over." www.bostonreview.net/articles/the... by @johannawinant.bsky.social

“veto power over tenure cases is increasingly being exercised by higher-level faculty committees or by administrators, rather than by the departmental colleagues of the junior professors who go up for review” Wooooo boy

More of this

At the same time, USC is paying a presumably large sum of money to OpenAI to give students access to ChatGPT we-are.usc.edu/2025/12/03/a...

THE STATE OF CRITIQUE Join us to celebrate the launch of the new Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (formerly Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context) tinyurl.com/stateofcritique

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

the way that large segments of higher ed have suspended basic critical thinking to participate in this hype-machine is certainly among the top-5 dystopic aspects of our current time

“I had to take the baby from my crying wife’s arms.“ It hasn’t even been a year, and this is not a scandal anymore? What is wrong with us?

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

A university called Northwestern should have a compass.

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Thousands of folks at the MacDougall Centre saying No to Notwithstanding on Trans Day of Remembrance 🩵🩷🤍

we are going to win

Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...

Very senior economist speaks out against Summers and against the discipline continuing to bestow privileges and honors on him; calls out sexism in economics. You'd think this site should be flooded with similar threads...

Pleased to post this new Dig ep w/ my partner in all things @triofrancos.bsky.social on her beautiful book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. We go from Chile to Nevada, from dawn of colonialism to geoeconomic conflict between the US and China—and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/extr...

Together with @wanshucong.bsky.social we put together a symposium on the 20th anniversary of Anghie's pathbreaking Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of IL. Our introduction is here: cil.nus.edu.sg/blog/symposi.... Terrific contributions to come including a generous response by Prof. Anghie.

Happy Monday! AJIL Unbound's latest symposium "Africa's International Law of Democracy" is now online! Click here to begin reading: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

This is some horrifying predatory shit.

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

The retrenchment will be nonsensical

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Third, this is a really depressing view of the purpose and scope of higher ed

“Texas A&M University System regents voted Thursday to limit how instructors may discuss matters like gender identity and race ideology in classrooms, tightening the rules in a conservative state where debates over academic freedom have flared for months.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

we are going to win

Does suddenly having a real progressive mayor make you wish you knew a little more about how city gov actually works?? You're in luck! Join us Nov 19th as we talk to @sandynurse.bsky.social & @ngusdorf.bsky.social abt the levers of local power!!! lpeproject.org/events/local...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Indeed, he was allowed to to kill all those children because he is so rich

I’m still mad. This unintelligent, deeply vapid, bovine podcast discussion is an insult to the existing (powerful, often brilliant, complex, challenging and nimble) canon of feminist works critiquing contemporary capitalism. You’ve read nothing. We can see clearly that you’ve read nothing.

in most disciplines you would become a pariah for even suggesting this is worth researching, but in business schools apparently phrenology is alive and well

connect the dots on attacks on education, the AI grifter bubble, and consolidating authoritarianism "I have to believe that we can still push back, that creative people can find the means to defy the ruling class and keep on creating."

After the NYTimes published the op-ed "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", I remembered that a NYTimes Guild report in 2021 found "Overall, median pay for women was $10,000 less per year than for men, meaning women earned roughly 92 percent of what men earned." nytimesguild.org/papers/2021-...

As long as you are leaning into the fascist zeitgeist, it seems that you too can be invited on a New York Times podcast to espouse your utterly vacuous and historically and politically illiterate views on feminism.