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.

Plenty to be thankful for tonight, not least the public humiliation of the oligarchs.

Zohran Mamdani’s opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.

BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty. “They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”

I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.* The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.

Today is only the beginning. Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.

New York is a-changin'.

Teen Vogue has become a top-tier political journalism authority and doing this the day before election day is just cruel.

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

University of Toronto law professor David Dyzenhaus, says that Harvard Law professor Adrien Vermeule “moved away from just being interested in [Carl] Schmitt,” a former Nazi scholar, “to actually embracing all dimensions of Schmitt’s theory: both the political dimension & the legal dimension…” 1/

There has been-ahem-a lot going on in international law. in this brief chapter, I tried to take stock of the past two years and what they mean for critical IL. TL;DR: the old moves REALLY don't work anymore: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

what else is there to say really

apparently we’re getting sidetracked worrying about the cognitive decline that comes from reliance on AI & the impossibility of real research when students have to wade through a sea of AI slop. What is the foundational work we are skipping over? Training teachers to shove AI down students’ throats

Equator is live today. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world: www.equator.org

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Important update from two months into my “experiment” (lol) assigning college juniors and seniors to read whole physical books and then having a seminar where they use the physical book and physical notebooks and their ideas and questions to fill three hours of class time: It rules

ICE violently detain father & son walking to school—teenage boy had to be rushed to hospital. "I was just going to school," kid cries out. "I'm underage!" The 16-year-old star athlete is a U.S. citizen—agents sent him to the hospital with severe injuries to his back & neck. Houston, Texas.

Forthcoming from me and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social: the Court no longer cares!

A witness in our case had ICE reject all her documents after using facial rec on her. For her, tho, it seemed like nothing could make them accept that she has a right to be here. Either way, a gov policy of not trusting gov-issued docs is going to violate lots of people's rights.

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

for everyone asking: screenshots from this New Yorker essay! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A big night for Trey Yesavage 🔥 The Blue Jays pitcher broke the rookie World Series record with 12 strikeouts.

Remembering Jonathan Lear remembering Bernard Williams. At the 2004 American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social, Lear delivered a speech in honour of his recently departed teacher and friend. I've written whole papers inspired by these words. home.uchicago.edu/jlear/docs/P...

Heartbroken to learn that the marvelous Jonathan Lear has left us. I'll always cherish his gorgeous writings. Here is his incredibly beautiful paper, "Ironic Eros: Notes on a Fantastic Pregnancy" from a workshop on Plato and the Body @notredame.bsky.social youtu.be/GXpPb6rqk2Q

This is the reality of Trump’s America: Your neighbors are being abducted, disappeared, and killed; free speech is an arrest-able offense; children and a FIFTH of the nation’s capitol are set to go hungry next month, and the president is busy demolishing the East Wing.

When Stephen Miller goes on TV to tell ICE agents they have “federal immunity,” he is soliciting this kind of lawless violence

Hi folks, I have made the interesting life decision to teach a seminar on US Legal Thought for the first time. I welcome sample syllabi and reading recommendations. I especially welcome tips on contemporary conservative thought (beyond originalism and law & econ). Thanks!

I wrote about Trump’s missile strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, and about the secret Justice Department opinion that underwrites them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

Tuesday will be 50 days since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees issued an order allowing the Trump administration, essentially, to target working-class Latinos in its massive immigration raids. What has happened since has been as bad, if not worse, than experts warned on Sept. 8.

We (collectively) should be funding 100x the PhDs we do now. 1000x? More? The problems are infinite, we could devote so many minds to producing knowledge, and it’s a choice to strip this place to the bones, quash human inquiry, and devote so little for human flourishing

Be the dude barefoot in pajamas yelling at ICE you want to see in the world

Check out vacancy for Chair in Federalism and Democracy @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social !

One food bank in Virginia saw a 65% increase in visitors since last year, more than at the height of the pandemic. “We thought it would come back down and it hasn’t,” the food bank’s chief philanthropy officer said. “It keeps growing.” (Published Oct. 3)

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too! time.com/collections/...

Proud to join this group of 39 Brown University alumni who are law professors in urging the university to reject the Trump-Vance presidency's enforced loyalty "compact": drive.google.com/file/d/1COIp...

This is dark. But also, this display of solidarity on the part of the pentagon press corps should be a model for dealing with the regime

It was incredibly moving to hear Prof Nickel and other non-citizen professors testify in court about the ways in which the arrests and deportations of students had affected them and their colleagues. So grateful to them for their integrity and courage. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Authority (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) buff.ly/w9ytliU

Legal Theory Blog is at legaltheoryblog.com. The Legal Theory Lexicon is at legaltheorylexicon.com. Thanks in advance for you help.