The Economist Is Putting Names (and Faces) to Its Magazine

liberalism is finally over

As a parent of a four-year old, I can tell you that when he says there are going to be “big problems” if the straight isn’t opened, it’s because he doesn’t have any actually effective punitive action at his disposal

Poster affirming higher ed and the joy of shared struggle

Poster outlining day of action events

April 16 and 17, the Coalition for Action in Higher Education (CAHE) is organizing a Day of Action event calling for freedom, joy, and equity in higher ed. Please register via the qr code and share widely.

If he can get a list of Jews he can get a list of Black, queer, trans, Leftist, disabled, socialist, immigrant, poor, Muslim, feminist, Indigenous, Latino, undocumented, union organizer, teacher, librarian, journalist, artist, activist, health worker, scientist, voter-rights advocate, or unAmerican

"This is a peculiar time we are living in... We are being taken into fascism and world war III.... The man has sanctions on Nicaragua for being a Democracy, but somehow no sanctions on South Africa?!!"

-"How to beat Reagan," audio of poem by Amiri Baraka, performed in Buffalo, New York, 1985

CFP - MLA 2027
Black Arts Media Emancipations

Seeking papers on the Black Arts Movement, its legacy, and and non-print media (film, radio, tv, internet).

Graduate students and early-career scholars are especially encouraged.

Deadline: March 25

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/03/...

CFP - MLA 2027
Black Arts Media Emancipations

Seeking papers on the Black Arts Movement, its legacy, and and non-print media (film, radio, tv, internet).

Graduate students and early-career scholars are especially encouraged.

Deadline: March 25

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/03/...

Excellent new report co-authored by William Herbert (@highered-cb.bsky.social) on academic freedom in union contracts. Check it out!

An Urgent Appeal - Silence is a crime YouTube video by שתיקה היא פשע - Silence is a Crime

”Society’s silence in the face of these destructive and deathly pogroms is a form of collective dissociation, unhinging humanity and severing Israeli society from the moral norms of human civilization”

-mental health practitioners appeal to international community in response to settler violence

New piece: “Answers in Progress”

On Amiri Baraka, the Black Communications Project, and the dream of building a radical Black media network in the late 1960s.

Archive, poetry, infrastructure.

Stable link here: dx.doi.org/10.1353/afa....
DM me for the pdf

New piece: “Answers in Progress”

On Amiri Baraka, the Black Communications Project, and the dream of building a radical Black media network in the late 1960s.

Archive, poetry, infrastructure.

Stable link here: dx.doi.org/10.1353/afa....
DM me for the pdf

I'm a New York Jew and I voted for Zohran Mamdani.

I think Mamdani will be the best mayor for Jews and all New Yorkers.

Please vote today!

If NYC/American Jews face significant antisemitism during the next mayoralty (and I do not think that criticism of Israel is the same thing as antisemitism), it won't be because of thoughtful and progressive folks like Mamdani. It will be despite them.

Agreed

I'm a New York Jew and I voted for Zohran Mamdani.

I think Mamdani will be the best mayor for Jews and all New Yorkers.

Please vote today!

Halloween gravestone reading “I Did My Own Research” in a yard with two skeleton arms sticking out of the grass.

Happy Halloween

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

defector.com/good-riddanc...

just ordered my absentee ballot and you can too

can you share a non paywall version for those of us who agree wholeheartedly?

Peter Beinart - "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning" | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

This says it pretty well

Happening today at 7am EST: the Eyes on Gaza series hosts writer & commentator Peter Beinart.

Beinart has been one of the most prominent Jewish voices opposing the war—today he speaks on Gaza, US politics, and the struggle for justice.

Details & link: eyesongaza.net
#EyesOnGaza #PeterBeinart #Gaza

"We order that ICE be confined to its natural habitat: the North and South Poles" - Executive Orders

good morning this book exists in the world

thanks to
@punctumbooks.bsky.social

punctumbooks.com/titles/execu...

A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U A Call for Constructive Engagement

NEW TODAY: 200 college and university presidents band together to condemn “unprecedented government overreach” in higher education and reaffirm the “essential freedom to determine, on academic grounds, whom to admit and what is taught, how, and by whom.” www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

Happy earth day. Federal funding is being denied to any infrastructure project whose proposal includes the words “wind” or “solar.” (At least we are being governed by people smart enough to figure out how to use the CTRL F function)

Punk video-game retro-meme-agit-prop is the appropriate response to current events

Adriano Celentano canta "Prisencolinensinainciusol" da "Formula due" del 1973 YouTube video by Rai

This is exactly how it happens in my classroom

history lesson

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Exclusively on Venus Roses are red / violets are transsexual / welcome to womanhood / now get to work honey

It is that time again for the yearly repost of my trans Valentine's Day poem: poets.org/poem/exclusi...