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the thing no one tells you about writing a book over many years is you will eventually forget that all that you learned is not in fact in everyone else’s head just because it’s in yours now, hence: you are writing a book

Book Industry Coalition Opposes Federal Book Banning Effort Publishers, authors, booksellers, librarians, parent groups, and literary organizations—including PW—have signed a statement opposing House Resolution 7661, a book banning bill titled the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act by its initiators. HR 7661 would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to prohibit federal education funds from being used in public classrooms and school libraries alleged to possess “sexually oriented materials.”

Read more about the broad coalition of organizations, publishers, authors, booksellers, and librarians who signed a joint statement opposing HR 7661, the national book ban proposed by Republicans in the House

Help Hampshire Workers | Support Hampshire Workers Today Support Hampshire College staff and faculty facing job loss with emergency relief funds for essential needs. Contributions and support help provide immediate assistance during this critical time.

Hampshire College is closing, and hundreds of staff & faculty are facing sudden job loss without severance.

Donate to the community-led Emergency Relief Fund to provide direct financial assistance for laid off workers' immediate needs, including housing, food, and other essentials ⬇️

Two efforts to help Hampshire workers facing job loss:

General emergency relief fund: www.helphampshireworkers.com

Fundraiser for staff of Hampshire's Early Learning Center, which will also close: www.gofundme.com/f/elc-staff-...

7 planets in Aries will definitely do that

always go to indies but especially if you like getting good recommendations, go to indies, no chain is ever good at a curated backlist of stuff that people working there love

Hampshire College was ‘a magical place’ for a progressive education. It couldn’t survive this era Hampshire is latest school to fall to declining enrollment amid a decades-long crisis affecting liberal arts colleges

“We’re mired in this conversation about wokeism, which I don’t think is particularly useful to any of us when our schools are closing, our students have no clear pathways, they’re in debt, our teachers are living paycheck to paycheck and our workers don’t have any sense of stability.”

On Cerina Fairfax The promise of a "soft life", "high value" men, the markers of the Black middle-class will not protect us. The die-hard belief that it will is wrapped up in the messy aftermath of Reconstruction.

On Cerina Fairfax
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Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstruction

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired?

OAH-goers: I am giving a paper on "radical self-reliance" tomorrow morning and then chairing what will be a great panel on finance culture. Hope to see you there!

Justice Sotomayor apologizes for “inappropriate” remarks about Justice Kavanaugh Just over one week after lobbing pointed personal criticism at Justice Brett Kavanaugh for his concurring opinion in a decision by the Supreme Court that lifted restrictions on immigration stops […]

(I have so much to say about this but it’s like 2 books down the line…)

Justice Sotomayor apologizes for “inappropriate” remarks about Justice Kavanaugh

I’ve absolutely made this mistake before.

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You might summon them.

A 50 page introduction? Now that’s my kinda carrying on

A $10K college built from scratch for the AI era Khan Academy, the TED conference and testing giant ETS are building an institute for college students.

Hampshire closes, and now this. Onward into post-literacy.

A $10K college built from scratch for the AI era www.axios.com/2026/04/14/k...

The Hidden Labor of Ethiopian Runners

Long-time friend of the pod @hborenstein.bsky.social joins to discuss the social and political economic dynamics that shape Ethiopian running and practicing the anthropology of sport.

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A ‘Gut Punch’ of Censorship and ‘Erasure’: University of Texas Professors Decry Rushed Merging of Ethnic & Gender Studies “It will be death by a thousand cuts,” said Lilia Rosas, a professor of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies.

University of Texas Professors Decry Rushed Merging of Ethnic & Gender Studies

Texas Tech University to Close Gender, Sexuality Programs All majors, minors, certificates and graduate degrees that are “centered on” sexual orientation or gender identity must be phased out and canceled, Texas Tech University system chancellor Brandon Crei...

Texas Tech University to Close All Gender and Sexuality Programs

Harry Haywood and the Radical Politics of Black Communism For Haywood, a truly radical working-class politics in the United States also required a program of self-determination.

Harry Haywood and the radical vision of Black communism

The other thing is that in a gig economy there is no degree that promises a good career anymore, not because you should have studied computer science or social media management instead of history or Russian literature, but because there are no careers

The university administration has begun an ideological crackdown in the vein of "divisive concepts" laws at the unit with the weakest governance and academic freedom protections—the Lab School. Read our full statement here: www.uchicagoaaup.org/statements/l...

The backlash against Morrison, Baldwin, and now Octavia Butler occurring on the other side of the internet seems to be a direct result of a generation of people who only became acquainted with these writers through snippets and sound bites rather than deep study

“We want to destroy the humanities as a field, we only want people working vocations, we don’t want you thinking, speaking, writing for yourself.”

Is, once again, a Saturday morning cartoon villain’s plot.

Pennsylvania’s Abolitionist Organizers Win Victory Against Mandatory Life Without Parole The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling is part of a nationwide trend to challenge life without parole sentences.

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A group of faculty and students gathered behind a dark blue and white banner that says: “Emory AAUP Defending Academic Freedom.” Many students and faculty hold signs condemning ICE and Flock.

The @emoryaaup.bsky.social showed up at the DeFlock walkout on Friday at #Emory. They demand that #Flock cameras be removed from the campus. @aaup.org @decaturish.bsky.social #gapol @ajc.com

US-Israeli Strikes on Iran’s Universities Signal Higher Ed No Longer Off-Limits Even if the ceasefire holds and the war comes to an end, Iran’s academia will bear great costs and long-term impacts.

Even if the ceasefire holds and the war comes to an end, Iran’s academia will bear great costs and long-term impacts.
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Choice Reviews text about THE DRIVER'S STORY next to a thumbnail image of the book's cover Text reads: This thoughtful book reexamines one of the most vilified and caricatured figures in Atlantic slavery: the overseer, or what Browne (Xavier Univ.) calls “the driver.” Drivers have come to symbolize the Atlantic slave regime’s brutal tactics, namely whipping and sexual assault. However, lay readers may not know that most drivers were enslaved Black men. As much as drivers enforced, wielded, and upheld the violence of the slave system, enslavers also subjected these men, and occasionally women, to “relentless surveillance and brutal discipline,” trapping them “at the center of the very labor system they were forced to uphold.” Browne explores the driver’s “fraught negotiations, contingent alliances, and difficult compromises.” Yet, the story of the driver is also necessarily that of enslavers, enslaved laborers, fiscals, judges, and other legal officials. Filtering what is essentially a micro-study of the plantation through the perspective of the driver, Browne shows that resistance often lay at the heart of the driving system—drivers could both punish and protect other enslaved people and were at the forefront of many well-known slave revolts and rebellions across the Caribbean precisely because of their influence and authority. To produce this empathetic “human history,” Browne expertly and painstakingly sifted through archival records found across the Atlantic World from Guyana to the UK.

Choice selected THE DRIVER'S STORY as one of five Outstanding Academic Titles in History, Geography & Area Studies. www.choice360.org/choice-pick/...