September 2025 VRG: Tragedy and Politics on Stage: An Encounter with Euripides | Liberty Fund Portal with Ella Street Wednesdays September 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm EDT Join us for a four-week discussion of ancient Greek tragedy. Together, we will read four plays by Euripides, the play...

I’m facilitating a (free! Open to public!) reading group in September on Euripides. Register here: libertyfund.circle.so/c/events-ann...

I’ll be in conversation with artists Margaux Smith and Heather Goodchild about their show “The Spinner, The Dealer, The Assassin” at Clint Roenisch Gallery in Toronto May 24th. If you’re here, come!

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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

“It shouldn’t be this easy to cleave universities from one another, but, so far, it seems to be easier even than making law firms compete for the don’s business and favor.” @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Our first event!

“Freedom of Expression in the History of Political Thought”
History and Politics – A WPSA Virtual Community
April 2nd, noon – 2 pm Eastern Time, by Zoom
with Ani Chen (Cornell) and Kevin Pham (Amsterdam)

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The United States has embarked on a programme of cultural and intellectual vandalism on a vast scale. Universities everywhere will feel more than ripples from the damage.

We are outraged to learn that Canada has approved a contract for the export of artillery propellant to the Israeli military via the US, despite an explicit commitment from Minister Joly
that she would stop such transfers. www.cjpme.org/pr_2025_03_2...

Worth noting there are 264 Democrats in Congress 🧐

Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.

That's Bait Kristi Noem and fascism's sadistic eroticization of power

I expanded my thread on the Kristi Noem video into an essay here. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/thats-bait (And yes, I know substack is a problem. Migrating soon.)

Def a full prof! And I’m glad (some of) those with security are speaking out about the issue. My point was just that lack of coverage is not imho the reason why ppl aren’t adequately responding to the issue…

By “plenty” I mean lots…. Would welcome even more ;)

Just taught Wendy Browns Undoing the Demos- plenty of good work on neoliberalism and the university out there

Def agree that some liberals failed to acknowledge mounting crises (and how the red carpet was rolled out under Biden for where we are now). Still think you can be alarmed about brain drain (and if you’re here, in Canada, position yourself to benefit from it)

Maybe… both?

I don’t mean to troll you but honestly I think this point you’re repeating is really misled. People can hold more than one thought/worry/concern in their head at a time. Plenty of liberals are (rightly) freaking out about disappearing grad students, too

‘A special day’: how a Glasgow community halted immigration raid Activists and local people tell how they forced the release of two men detained in an enforcement van

if you're in the US and despairing about people being pulled off the street, you need to find your nearest immigrant defence/deportation defence group and learn how to do stuff like this
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By now the Trump administration’s message to non-citizen residents of the United States is abundantly clear: If you publicly disagree with us, you are not safe here.

Oh c’mon- one can be in support of basic rights for all, appalled by what is happening in the US, and also make a point about university brain drain

Question- Just arrived here from Twitter- I managed to migrate many of those I follow- but how to migrate or retrieve my X followers? Doesn’t seem like an option

Absolutely essential reading.

Adam Shatz | Submission There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...

“Like the academics and politicians in Michel Houellebecq’s novel Submission, American college administrators are responding to Trump’s bullying as if it were an opportunity…This is a tale not so much of capitulation to an authoritarian leader as of collusion with him.” www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

I still remember when Egypt arrested AJ journalists and Western media institutions launched campaigns of solidarity.

Israel has murdered 161 journalists - including Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansur today alone.

In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's
Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza.

There are no words.

'TO LISTEN TO BOTH SIDES EQUALLY': JUST JUDGMENT IN THE ATHENIAN COURTS Classical Athens is often celebrated as a model of deliberative democracy and a reminder of the value of talking with others. The historical Athens, however, complicates this picture. In certain polit...

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Athenian democracy is often associated with citizens talking together. But deliberation was forbidden in what was arguably (by 4th century) the supreme dem institution in Athens. Why? And what does this tell us about democratic justice? My article in History of Political Thought

🚨 CfP: 2025 conference on Women in the History of Political Thought 🚨

Organised by Torrey Shanks, Geertje Bol, and @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social

👇 Details below 👇