The New Deal in the news: Thomas blames Bismarck —Bismarck!—for the US administrative state, prefers Catholic natural law

Thoughtful intervention from Jason Ralph, distinguished IR scholar at Leeds: www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/articl... #realism

The Future That Was How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website

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The Mamdani administration today announced its own click to cancel rule, to make sure that every subscription transaction in the city is as easy to end as it is to start.
The FTC did this in 2023, it was challenged in court & Trump's FTC wouldn't defend it. NYC is doing it themselves.

Hall of fame FT correction

Make him pay out of his personal profits from his Presidency?

Sounds ambitious and fascinating, Joseph 👍

Congrats-happy to learn of your book

UC-AFT flyer announcing Upcoming Unit 18 Bargaining Dates: April 9 via Zoom, April 16 at UC Davis, May 7 via Zoom, and May 21 at UC Irvine. Features the UC-AFT logo showing California state outline with a torch, surrounded by text reading "Faculty Equity" and "Student Success." The flyer encourages solidarity with lecturer colleagues and directs readers to RSVP at https://linktr.ee/ucaft. Orange "UC-AFT" text pattern forms the background border.

UC-AFT lecturers continue the fight for a fair contract! Show your solidarity with U18 colleagues by observing Zoom or in-person bargaining sessions. #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org

The work of contextualizing and “listening“ to Habermas‘s will continue, as Martin Jay suggests in these elegant and measured reflections on a great listener in the dialectic tradition:

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Almost two years ago, @cepr.org published an eBook with essays by prominent scholars & policymakers about the importance of supporting #Ukraine.

This book is more relevant than ever. Read it!

#UkrainianView

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DHS Pauses Warehouse Purchases as Internal Revolt, Legal Challenges, and Political Infighting Cloud the Program's Future Career officials call it unworkable. Communities are suing to stop it. Congress is investigating. And Stephen Miller is still pushing.

"'If it weren't for Miller pushing, this would be dead by now,' the source told me. A new DHS secretary may not be the obstacle many wish it were."

Read more to learn why now is the time to be making noise.

Danke.

Chapel Hill #NoKings march about to get started

Breaking: Donald Trump Plans to Add His Signature to US Currency As Vanity Fair can exclusively report, Trump’s Treasury Department plans to add his signature to all denominations of US dollar bills.

SCOOP: Trump has spent his second term in office working to leave his mark on Washington and the country.

Now, his Treasury Department plans to add his signature to all denominations of U.S. dollar bills. It will be the first time in history a sitting president's signature appears on dollar bills

A property tax hike is not "taxing literally everyone" in a city where renters comprise more than 2/3rds of the population.

Conservatives before 2026: No, you cannot have information related to my gun ownership, vaccination status, health history, biometric identifiers, financial transactions, etc!

Conservatives in 2026:

Did Jamelle coin “slopulism”? So good

Greenland was no joke. Believe what he says.

Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond | Home Adrian Blau is Professor of Politics at King’s College London. His research interests include the history of political thought and other issues in political theory/philosophy, including corruption, democracy and rationality.

We've published a free e-book celebrating the 50th anniversary of Quentin Skinner's seminal essay 'Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas' including his own reflections on the contributions
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De Gruyter Brill Social Sciences To recognize the late, great Jürgen Habermas's legacy, we're highlighting one of our publications that grapples with his ideas: "Critical Encounters with Habermas's Political and Legal Theory,"...

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Acclaimed 20th century philosopher Jürgen Habermas dies at 96 Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse.

Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse. n.pr/3Nptb1g

In Jürgen #Habermas verlieren wir eine der prägenden Stimmen unserer Demokratie.
Er hat gezeigt, dass eine freie Gesellschaft vom Streit der Argumente lebt – respektvoll, offen und im gemeinsamen Ringen um das bessere Argument.

Guess who will own the future?

The Trump administration will somehow make $10 billion off the TikTok deal The unusually large fee comes after the president brokered the sale of the company's US operations to investors allied with his administration.

The fee is about *70 percent* of the new US TikTok’s $14 billion valuation

UNICEF says that in just 12 days of war in the Middle East, more than 1,100 children have been reported injured or killed in the violence. “This includes 200 children reportedly killed in Iran, 91 in Lebanon, four in Israel and one in Kuwait.“

This lawless war has to stop.

Acclaimed 20th century philosopher Jürgen Habermas dies at 96 Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse.

I was asked to provide a few words today by NPR: www.npr.org/2026/03/14/n...

Habermas in German, European, North Atlantic, and Global Perspective | Los Angeles Review of Books Matthew Specter on what Habermas's thought can offer Europe and the West today.

A lot has changed since I wrote this in 2019 but it gives a good précis of my 2010 intellectual biography of JH lareviewofbooks.org/article/habe... RIP #Habermas

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RIP Jürgen Habermas, great influence of my youth and great inspiration still.