📚NEXT WEEK: Join us for the launch of 'The End of Empires and a World Remade' by Martin Thomas, with insights from Tarak Barkawi & Natalya Benkhaled-Vince, chaired by Lars Cornelissen.

📅24th May, 5:00 PM, at Gresham College.

More Info below:
isrf.org/events/book-la…

Barry Buzan has a new interesting piece out:
'A new cold war?: The case for a general concept'
link.springer.com/article/10.105…

Compare and contrast with our Second Cold War Observatory approach: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

hint: issues of geographical political economy matter!

great piece on Gaza Solidarity Camps at some US campuses lithub.com/you-are-being-…

Love that this happens AFTER the Sunak meeting.

UCLA history professor: “Along with a colleague, I begged the police to intervene,” O’Brien said. “A police officer threatened us with a weapon in response to our pleas to protect the students from the mob.” latimes.com/entertainment-…

As we wait for UAW-represented campus workers' strike authorization vote, here's a useful FAQ from the 2022 strike for faculty wondering about their rights during a strike: cucfa.org/2022/11/faqs-f…

True and it reflects how completely split the college system is

My new paper 'How Rich Were the Rich? An Empirically-Based Taxonomy of Pre-Industrial Bases of Wealth'
Full text available
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/files/2024/05/…

This book — The Searchers by Andy Beckett — is so, so good. Everyone interested in the recent past and the potential future of the Left ought to read it. Very strong recommend.

'Today, the UCLA campus is all but a student- and faculty-free zone, under police occupation and patrolled by armed law enforcement officers and private security guards, while classes and meetings have been pushed online.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/for-wh…

Mexico 🇲🇽 just observed its hottest day in May.

A brutal 51.1°C (124.7°F). This is less than 1°C from the all-time national record for any month.

Sadly this heatwave is far from over...

BREAKING: Police going into Penn encampment.

lol Columbia U president Minouche Shafik denounces her faculty to the US gov, calls the police on her students, then sets herself up as a pioneer of civility Bruce Robbins reclaim UC Charmaine Chua 🇵🇸 Daniela Gabor ft.com/content/18432b… via @ft

Quinn Slobodian and Doug Henwood had a great conversation about racial neoliberalism on Behind the News kpfa.org/episode/behind… Lars Cornelissen Daniela Gabor Gargi Bhattacharyya

colson whitehead UMass Amherst His statement on Bsky:

I've learned today that colson whitehead has withdrawn as UMass Amherst's commencement speaker in response to admin calling the police on peaceful protest. Maybe UMass should change its slogan from 'Be Revolutionary' to 'Be Counterrevolutionary'? westernmassnews.com/2024/05/09/uma…

The iPad ad which seemingly depicts human creativity being trampled and squashed to make way for technology was actually a rip off of an ad made in 2008. This is basically life imitating AI generated art.

“Although watching things explode might be fun, it’s less fun when a multitrillion-dollar tech corporation is the one destroying tools, instruments, and other objects of human expression and creativity.”

🙏🏼 Charlie Warzel & Damon Beres

It couldn't be clearer that the phonics focus of educational materials making their way into schools and the associated standardized testing is preventing students from developing interest in reading. What good is decoding if you don't want to read? slate.com/culture/2024/0…

faculty members camp for Palestinians at The New School NYC-- a first this year? hellgatenyc.com/faculty-occupy…