The Faculty Are the Problem, Apparently | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson Those who want to diminish the faculty’s decision-making authority, or who think universities should be run more like companies, should be careful what they wish for.

"But those who want to diminish the faculty’s decision-making authority, or who think universities should be run more like companies, should be careful what they wish for." www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

The first 25 pages of Climbing are available to read pre-publication!

Big thanks to @dukepress.bsky.social for making this available. So excited for this project to be out in the world.

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

I’m sorry but

One Night at BURG – the Diasporist What happens when the fight against antisemitism ends up obscuring racist violence? What if defending oneself against a physical attack is considered antisemitic simply because the attacker presents h...

In this report, @hahauenstein.bsky.social traces how this campus assault was recast as an antisemitic incident, showing "how easily perpetrators of racist violence in Germany can be transformed into victims." Read in full on our website: thediasporist.de/one-night-at...

Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two peop...

The irony of this initiative is that Harvard’s Department of Government was the academic hub of the first generation of neoconservatives and Harvey Mansfield alone has probably produced more conservative undergrad and grad students than all Marxist faculty at Harvard combined.

Why Viktor Orbán should be the next president of Harvard.

we know that trickle down economics doesn’t work, but trickle down violence sure does; it trickles down, up, and sideways. just look at the world right now

‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn from their mothers by order of the state. This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity

"What she found, she told the Observer, was “a systematic policy to identify, track and pursue mixed-race children, taking them from the arms of their mothers and forcing them under the guardianship of the state”."

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

a magical realism novel about academia where it’s imbued with intellectualism and meritocracy

Lol

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Karp doesn't say these things because he can predict the future. He says it, because critical thinking - something the humanities are designed to cultivate - threatens the power of the tech bro billionaire culture.

Worker who allegedly set fire to California warehouse compares self to Luigi Mangione Chamel Abdulkarim was charged with felony and state arson counts after allegedly destroying property worth nearly $600m

when workers start citing luigi mangione as their north star, the correct question is not "why are they so extreme" but "what did you do to them first." chamel abdulkarim did not invent desperation. the warehouse did.

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

Thinking with @aobrandel.bsky.social’s Moving Words, I reflect on translatability and commensurability in Germany amid AfD’s rise, the genocide in Gaza, and debates over Staatsräson in this short piece.

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Israel's Plan to Artwash Genocide at the Venice Biennale The artwork at the heart of the pavilion promises to continue the project of denying Palestinian existence.

At the Venice Biennale, Romanian-Israeli artist Belu-Simion Fainaru will present a work celebrating Israeli drip-irrigation technology, just as Israel weaponizes its irrigation system to control Palestinians by restricting their access to water.

SUNY Chancellor John B. King @sunychancellor.bsky.social announces SUNY's "absolute & unwavering commitment" to DEI: "Some are cowering & backing away. We cannot and will not. We will not retreat, we will not back down... DEI is in our DNA." Super grateful & proud to teach @ SUNY!

tinyurl.com/mrykbd73

Thinking with @aobrandel.bsky.social’s Moving Words, I reflect on translatability and commensurability in Germany amid AfD’s rise, the genocide in Gaza, and debates over Staatsräson in this short piece.

doi.org/10.1111/aman...

Here, in these two articles on the evils of queer theory, one from a wannabe FDP chairman and the other from a vocal member of the gay literati, we see my argument bear out. /2

www.cicero.de/innenpolitik...

queernations.de/wolfgang-kub...

In the epilogue to my book, the Queer Art of History, I argued that the far right posed an existential threat to queer and trans life. But I also showed parts of the liberal centre are no small danger either. /1

God I hate this genre. These kids who protested Gaza got arrested, expelled, beaten up, doxxed, lives ruined by outside agitators and were utterly betrayed by the administrations that should have protected them at any cost. Shut the fuck up.

Amplifying voices New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish

Please share and/or consider applying to the Cambridge Amplifying Grant for underrepresented scholars. Applications are due next Monday, April 13. www.cambridge.org/us/universit.... This is a great opportunity!

At least 254 killed in Israel’s devastating attacks across Lebanon today Israel carries out 100 strikes across Lebanon in 10 minutes, health minister says hospitals overwhelmed with victims.

aje.news/jf7llm and again here is the bigger story …

Texas losing a billion dollars a year on data center tax break The tax break is one of the state’s costliest incentive programs and soon to be the most expensive of its kind in the nation.

Texas is losing out on over $1.5 billion dollars every year because of the tax breaks it gives data centers.

www.texastribune.org/2026/04/08/t...

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