i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

Which university will be the first to fail the latest Lando Test? www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

"Please clap."
(LDP presidential candidate Motegi Toshimitsu edition)

At 1:50~ mark in this clip:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vfy...

Part of ICE’s efforts will be setting up random traffic stops and checkpoints throughout the city and making educated guesses about who to detain and who not to detain. These 'Guess Stops' will be staffed by special agents known as Guess Stop Officers, or 'Guess-Stop-O for short.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Mario Guevara is here legally and is not facing any criminal charges.

He is being thrown out of the country for nothing but reporting news.

Check out work by @davidleheny.bsky.social. His book more specifically on the topic, the Rules of Play, came out some time ago (maybe early 2000s?) but it is excellent and one starting point.

When the state was well-governed, Master Ning Wu was wise, but when the state was ill-governed, he pretended to be foolish. His wisdom can be surpassed, but his foolishness is unsurpassable.

子曰：「甯武子邦有道則知，邦無道則愚。其知可及也，其愚不可及也。」

Thrilled to share my new book about trade politics, corporate lobbying, and the backlash to globalization in developed countries. #polisci #PoliticalEconomy #Economics #Polisky

53 of my articles and books used to train the AI without my permission 😳

I just filled out the form. I encourage my fellow academics and other authors to do the same!

Opinion | American democracy is gone. I'm not going to miss it.

by Bret Stephens

The real Thucydides Trap all along: Athens succumbing to demagoguery.

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

Big personal news! After 11 years at UMaine, this fall I will start a new position as the inaugural Mansfield Chair of Japan and Indo-Pacific Affairs at the University of Montana. I will miss my colleagues and students in Maine, and am thrilled for this next adventure!

www.umt.edu/news/2025/02...

Must read. Incredible and thoughtful first-person account. Surprisingly, the most shocking part is not journalists and college professors being arrested. It’s police trapping the crowd—giving a disperse order while blocking all the exits. via @smotus.bsky.social
smotus.substack.com/p/arrested-i...

Very excited to listen to this new series!

@empirepoduk.bsky.social is absolutely fabulous and I recommend starting at the very beginning with British imperialism in India. @willdalrymple.bsky.social's work on the EIC is an essential (and horrifying) lens for the contemporary moment.

Nice. Political scientists could edit this to: "These claims have been made [by economists] in the apparent absence of any awareness of the theoretical framework of [pick any political phenomena]...that has existed for decades."

East German-style reporting people to the authorities

Many thoughtful retrospectives exist, and here is one summary discussion with many links to others: www.insidehighered.com/digital-lear...

It's the one year book-iversary of Holding It Together, and I think its message is more urgent than ever. Because the book is about how the US came to rely on women as its safety net. But that story is fundamentally a story of what happens when billionaires don't want to pay their fair share. 1/