One of the two public universities in Oregon currently undergoing retrenchment published a report on which programs make the most $ for the university (which shouldn't be the primary factor in keeping or cutting them), and the answer by a LONG SHOT was History/Poli Sci

What are the rules that govern our workday? Who made them? And how do these rules dominate the rest of our lives? Join @henrysnow.bsky.social for the Verso Book Club Reading Group where we'll be discussing how management made the modern world. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...

Powerful example of why just funding research on the basis of market interest is no substitute for funding research based on curiosity and social need: "With private industry largely uninterested in this kind of research, Dr. Antaki said he was grateful for government funding, despite the whiplash."

If you're a teacher or have teachers in your lives you/they are likely being ripped off by 403(b) vendors charging outrageous fees and you should go here to find help getting your money back 403bwise.org

I contributed a book chapter on a key EU policy problem: fiscal consolidation pressures and rising defence spending risk crowding out public investment in the green and digital transition. I discuss options for creating more fiscal space under the reformed EU fiscal rules.

it's been out for 5 days and I have been grateful for the positive response! if you haven't grabbed it yet there's never a bad time!

Trump has destroyed America’s knowledge infrastructure. This is an opportunity for knowledge workers across disciplines-natural science, social science, humanities-to see their interests in rebuilding this infrastructure on democratic grounds as connected.

here as so often in politics we treat conflict or negotiation as an evil that marks a deviation from the Correct Path as opposed to part of the process by which we determine what that path actually is

“this Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for the…purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callais…they function to limit black political power.”

This Day in Labor History: May 16, 1934. Truckers in Minneapolis went on strike in an action that would lead the way for the Teamsters to represent truckers across the nation and help lay the groundwork for the organization of industrial workers across the nation during the 1930!!!

homer is desecrating Greece the country, the sea isn't wine-dark there!

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

the services sought for detransition are quite literally the same ones sought for transition. detransitioners work in tandem with us on advocacy. there aren't enough people to keep a detransition-only clinic busy. this should clue you in that this clinic will not be used for consenting detransition

yeah I agree, I don't know what Nolan was thinking, casting Matt Damon as Leopold Bloom is a pretty weird choice

Indictments for anyone involved (line agents on up) should be a Day 1 priority in 2029.

Here's a short post with links to a couple recent interviews about Against Money. jwmason.org/slackwire/ta...

Publication day! Taking Territory: The Persistence of Conquest Since 1945 is now out from @CornellPress! It offers a comprehensive account of the causes and consequences of attempts to conquer territory across the world since World War II.

Someday this will be like the insane POW-MIA flags everywhere, i.e. proof that a conspiracy theory spread far and on American soil. But unlike that one, so many people are going to be harmed in the process!

many thanks to @patrickwyman.bsky.social for joining us to discuss the most important question of our time: who would win a fighting tournament among the presidents. also, too, get his new book, “lost worlds”! bookshop.org/p/books/lost...

sunny castform, rainy castform, normal castform, sandy castform (forbidden)

Today is Nakba Day, commemorating the Palestinians that were violently displaced by the creation of Israel in 1948. We present a reading list on the struggle in Palestine, including Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation by Ghassan Kanafani, soon available in English for the first time

Some upcoming book events: I'll be in Hartford on 5/21 at 6pm at First Presbyterian Church hosted by DSA ( actionnetwork.org/events/book-...) and for those further afield, Verso Book Club is hosting me virtually on 5/24 at 2pm!

this Elon Musk plot to steal your 401(k) money is really going underdiscussed

I think a lot of debates about “markets” vs “planning” in the abstract would benefit from thinking a bit more about how investment decisions are made in the economies in which we currently live. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Neolithic spirit masks from Nahal Hemar, 7,000 B.C.E

It kinda makes you think about what posts Musk tuned the algorithm on Vichy Twitter to show left-leaning users (easy to identify)

Hind Khoudary: people in Gaza say the Nakba is being repeated.

32 House Democrats joined the GOP to vote to criminalize bail funds. clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026169

while we're all dunking on the washington post for short form video conservatakes, reposting because it's related (also this should have said lament rather than mourn whoops)

“The U.S. National Science Foundation X-Labs (NSF X-Labs) initiative is designed to launch and scale a new generation of organizations focused on independent research, development and innovation.” We have those, thanks, they’re called universities and national laboratories.

The Alliance for Higher Education is seeking comments by 11:59pm tonight on the US DOE's consideration of a new "intellectual diversity" criterion for accreditation. They are esp. interested in faculty, student, or uni. administration experiences with such criteria. docs.google.com/forms/d/1B5B...

it's a great archive! when one of my sources proved useless* a random many-box series of a different guy's papers ended up becoming essential to my book

I think any argument for market socialism needs to begin not with the failure of alternatives but with planned guardrails against its own fail state: markets expanding the share of life they govern, dissolving social relations and alternatives, etc. as they tend to do

new england springtime ritual (hauling two window AC units out and hurriedly installing them in preparation for it to be 89 degrees on sunday)

it's easy to mourn the "orality" of video-driven political discourse and culture, but I think the problem is the length as much as the medium; sparked by some rainy day reading on a real low point in Thomas Mann's career, here are some thoughts on the matter buttondown.com/anotherway/a...

You will be shocked to learn that me and some friends had thoughts about the whole canvas thing www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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I agree with the criticisms of this but I also think the controversy around Haidt as an individual conveniently distracts from the absurd idea that a psychologist employed in a business school has any substantive ideas whatsoever. NYU might as well have a commencement speech given by a pigeon.

This is very much in keeping with the elite "free speech" movement of the last decade, which has almost exclusively been focused on questions of hierarchy and institutional fealty, and the reassertion of authority by superiors over their inferiors.

since publishing yesterday I have gotten a shocking number of scam book promotion offers written to my personal email address, which I don't make available online

When I was working on my MA thesis almost two decades ago I fantasized about publishing in Utopian Studies, and now it’s happened! This piece on right-wing utopias extends an argument that didn’t quite make it into Speculative Whiteness.

If you teach modern US history, labor studies, or political economy of energy -- excellent readable book. #climatechange #workingclass #laborhistory

celebrating publication of my first book by playing 2025's finest racing game and drinking an absolutely foul-smelling tea

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Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Most alarming to some senior officials is evidence that Iran has restored operational access to 30 of the 33 missile sites it maintains along the Strait of Hormuz ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

Lithub has an excerpt of my book, which is out today! lithub.com/how-middle-m...

going out on a limb here but diplomacy might be a more reliable missile defense strategy than this

From Caribbean slaveholders to Victorian eugenicists to Nazi steel executives, the worst people imaginable have told us that love is meaningless, ethics are impossible, and community is a mirage. They've shaped the very language we use to talk about work and the economy. This book is a response.

And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary @pkrugman.bsky.social writing in 2000.