Eric Klinenberg
@ericklinenberg.bsky.social
Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.*
For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’
Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
*Court rules that Trump's policies are illegal but allows them to stand anyway* is the best summary of America in 2025 I know.
Appeals court strikes down Trump’s tariffs as illegal but leaves them in place
Trump’s cornerstone economic policy faced another challenge as a federal appeals court ruled he did not have the authority under an emergency powers act to impose them.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
*Court rules that Trump's policies are illegal but allows them to stand anyway* is the best summary of America in 2025 I know.
“Drill baby drill” is a climate policy.
Gutting the EPA and FEMA is a climate policy.
Cutting access to climate and weather data is a climate policy.
Taxing renewables is a climate policy.
Defunding NSF, NOAA, and NASA is climate policy.
Watching families & communities grieve is a consequence.
Gutting the EPA and FEMA is a climate policy.
Cutting access to climate and weather data is a climate policy.
Taxing renewables is a climate policy.
Defunding NSF, NOAA, and NASA is climate policy.
Watching families & communities grieve is a consequence.
July 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
“Drill baby drill” is a climate policy.
Gutting the EPA and FEMA is a climate policy.
Cutting access to climate and weather data is a climate policy.
Taxing renewables is a climate policy.
Defunding NSF, NOAA, and NASA is climate policy.
Watching families & communities grieve is a consequence.
Gutting the EPA and FEMA is a climate policy.
Cutting access to climate and weather data is a climate policy.
Taxing renewables is a climate policy.
Defunding NSF, NOAA, and NASA is climate policy.
Watching families & communities grieve is a consequence.
America’s great research universities were not invented in Silicon Valley garages or cooked up by venture capitalists. For centuries, they’ve been built by scholars, bolstered by benefactors, and scaled up by the state.
The government is now trying to destroy them. The damage will be profound.
The government is now trying to destroy them. The damage will be profound.
March 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
America’s great research universities were not invented in Silicon Valley garages or cooked up by venture capitalists. For centuries, they’ve been built by scholars, bolstered by benefactors, and scaled up by the state.
The government is now trying to destroy them. The damage will be profound.
The government is now trying to destroy them. The damage will be profound.
Chilling report from Brown University.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel
One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...
www.browndailyherald.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Chilling report from Brown University.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
What if - and hear me out on this - algorithms are a way of suppressing voices and ideas that oligarchs don't like?
March 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
What if - and hear me out on this - algorithms are a way of suppressing voices and ideas that oligarchs don't like?
One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
March 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
Do you value your library?
Trump just ordered the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the key source of federal support for libraries.
Libraries are vital social infrastructure, the foundations of an open, democratic society. Gutting them means gutting our own communities.
Trump just ordered the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the key source of federal support for libraries.
Libraries are vital social infrastructure, the foundations of an open, democratic society. Gutting them means gutting our own communities.
Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent
The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Do you value your library?
Trump just ordered the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the key source of federal support for libraries.
Libraries are vital social infrastructure, the foundations of an open, democratic society. Gutting them means gutting our own communities.
Trump just ordered the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the key source of federal support for libraries.
Libraries are vital social infrastructure, the foundations of an open, democratic society. Gutting them means gutting our own communities.
Huge night here at NYU. An undergrad trying to fix their grade accidentally discovered how to email 11,000 instructors on a secret group email list, unifying the faculty like no one before. I have hundreds of email replies in my inbox. And apparently Onions, the puppy, has just been granted tenure.
Someone just sent a photo of their dog, Onions, to an 11,000 person faculty listserv, adorable
December 30, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Huge night here at NYU. An undergrad trying to fix their grade accidentally discovered how to email 11,000 instructors on a secret group email list, unifying the faculty like no one before. I have hundreds of email replies in my inbox. And apparently Onions, the puppy, has just been granted tenure.