“We could completely eliminate the conditions that make life for working class & poor Americans difficult…but that’s not a very profitable industry for the capitalist class, unlike war.”

yung hegelian talks US military spending w/ an EHRP + The Intercept report by Stephen Semler

'Administrations have thinned the number of professors per student, replacing them with a ballooning class of administrators.... When a university does dig into its pockets, it’s likely to invest in real estate expansion'
💯 applicable to UK universities too

'[The University's] new incarnation [is] an economic machine that operates in the interests of high-paid university administrators, wealthy donors, financial managers, private equity firms & investment banks' 👏🏽 ArtReview_ artreview.com/what-is-the-un…

for Jacobin I explain why calling someone a 'hoosier' in st. louis is an insult = to hillbilly, bumpkin, or white trash ⤵️

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thanks to everyone at Jacobin but esp Meagan Day for the help with this

Please read about my 'journey' and the journey we will be making if we want to heal using psychedelics
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I hope we can have an open honest discussion of this and also protect our healing from corporate capture
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I wrote about the campus Gaza protests, the strategy of divestment, the corporatization of higher ed, the tyranny of the endowment, and the existential struggle over the purpose of universities for ArtReview_ artreview.com/what-is-the-un…

Super proud of our latest, a reported recipe project for Economic Hardship Reporting Project that reimagines affordable cooking ...thanks Mark Bittman Deborah Jian Lee Meagan Day Published with Mark Bittmanproject Mother Jones Might be of interest The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast Priya Parker duylinhtu📈

'[W]ithout radical intervention...the industry will become unrecognizable. And the writing trade—the kind where one actually earns a living—will be obliterated.'

Adding this seminal essay db Harper's Magazine Meagan Day to my Modern Media course Washington University in St. Louis! harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

This is a must-read

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This is a really good piece about a really bad state of affairs.

one juicy quote i gave Meagan & Danny that got killed: i read The Kid Stays In the Picture during the strike. Bob Evans talks about how he rented cars for 15 starlets at once cuz they needed help getting started, getting to auditions. can u imagine anyone investing like that now?

This Harper's cover story by db is so far THE definitive piece about how private equity and tech raided Hollywood and trashed the place. I was honored to contribute reporting to it, but mostly to behold Danny's big brain at work harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

After a year of work, my piece on writing and contemporary Hollywood has been released as the cover of the May issue of Harper's. ... harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

I've got a piece in this issue about Pat Robertson and the rise of the evangelical Right. Tl;dr the man was a political animal and truthfully we have a lot to learn from him for our own purposes on the Left

Our new issue, “Religion,” is out now!

Subscribe today for $20 to get a copy and three more print issues.

Writing from Tyler Austin Harper, Meagan Day, Owen Hatherley, Liza Featherstone, David Broder, Ronan Burtenshaw, and many others.

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Holy smokes, it has been a year... Bootstrapped is now out in…paperback! Official publication date: tomorrow. Happy to chat at your uni, book store or book group or send to you for review. Books Are Magic P&T Knitwear | Books and Podcasts Hamilton Nolan Meagan Day Economic Hardship Reporting Project The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast

75% of Democratic voters disapprove of Israel's actions in Gaza.

90% of Democrats in Congress just voted for a bill that cements aiding & abetting genocide in Gaza as US policy.

My latest in Jacobin: jacobin.com/2024/04/gaza-i…

Many seem to think Biden can't stop Israel's military offensive. In reality, it wouldn't be possible without him.

Netanyahu admits that Israel's assault relies on a torrent of US weapons & the Israeli army confirms this in practice. My latest in Jacobin: jacobin.com/2024/03/biden-…

I love to see this thorough portrait of American labor we have been planning for months with coconspirators Mother Jones and Magnum Foundation reach fruition. sara terry Economic Hardship Reporting Project Steven Greenhouse Meagan Day Hamilton Nolan Sidney Hillman Foundation