We just published the 50th anniversary edition of THE CHEESE AND THE WORMS by Carlos Ginzburg in April. What an honor it has been to be his American publisher--this book changed everything. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... @hopkinspress.bsky.social
Aditya Balasubramanian
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Senior Lecturer at ANU School of History Working on Roads Book: Toward a Free Economy @princetonupress.bsky.social Order: http://tinyurl.com/5andt77x (USA/UK) http://tinyurl.com/2p88pvmv (India)
Puts me in mind of the famous Eric Williams quote, “British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it”
The HEADLINE is about being "Pro-Palestinian". The ARTICLE is 95% about antisemitism. Palestinians = well, what? Nothing? Cannon-fodder? A handy folk-demon? A blank slate to project insecurities onto? Human rights, schmuman rights...
NHS staff should be banned from wearing pro-Palestinian badges, report recommends
The recommendation is one of several from Lord Mann, whose review examined antisemitism within the organisation.
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‘“I no longer consider Columbia University a safe place to work for Jews who dare to dissent from the political agenda of its most ardently pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian donors and trustees,” wrote Joseph Howley, a classics professor, in his claim.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘We were attacked as bad Jews’: Columbia faculty who supported Gaza protests file claims with Trump’s antisemitism fund
Faculty who support Palestinian rights are applying for compensation, claiming they faced harassment as Jews for their positions
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More than 1 billion Africans walk or cycle every day. Yet many roads remain unsafe for those who use them On #BicycleDay, see how African cities are investing in cycling infrastructure to improve health, ease congestion & cut pollution #NowForClimate: https://ow.ly/zowT50Z6Nwa #WorldEnvironmentDay
Perhaps when we stop posing binary rhetorical questions such as this, we might begin to make meaningful assessments.
Will AI ruin the social sciences — or revolutionize them?
The technology can whip up spurious findings and pollute survey responses, but it could also make research more rigorous.
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“He might have seemed humble in office, but in his post-presidential, Netflix-producing afterlife, Obama has erected the largest, costliest and most audacious complex [presidential library] of them all. Behold the $850m Obamalisk – or, as it sometimes feels morbidly like, the Obamausoleum.”
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo ago‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library
On Mabo Day, we remember Eddie Koiki Mabo and the generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who refused the lie of terra nullius. Land, memory, law, and dignity are connected. Justice begins by telling the truth. Learn more: www.nma.gov.au/defining-mom...
Because it was time to address the dark clouds overhead at #RolandGarros: I wrote about how Alexander Zverev is almost certainly going to win the French Open, and how people around the sport are feeling about that likelihood. Read here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/alexander-...
Anyone But
As Alexander Zverev closes in on a near-certain French Open title, a sport that once held its breath is now sighing.
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Week in review: @veenadubal.bsky.social and @azizaahmed.bsky.social on how feminists transformed the law and science of AIDS, @lookheron.bsky.social on market governance in Trumpworld, and @abalasub.bsky.social on the misnomer of modern Indian capital. Plus, the best of LPE from around the web 🧵
Weekly Roundup: March 6
Veena Dubal and Aziza Ahmed on how feminists transformed the law and science of AIDS, Luke Herrine on market governance in Trumpworld, and Aditya Balasubramanian on the misnomer of modern Indian…
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Really honored to have my new @harvardpress.bsky.social book be part of an @lpeblog.bsky.social symposium! I am deeply grateful to @lpeproject.bsky.social colleagues for the opportunity, and to my respondents @maggor.bsky.social, @abalasub.bsky.social & Amy Cohen for engaging with my work. 🙏
LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · 6mo agoToday, @jasonbjackson.bsky.social kicks off a symposium on his new book, *Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India.* Economic policymaking, he argues, is best understood as a state-led project of moral ordering of capital.
Today, @abalasub.bsky.social continues our symposium on *Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry.* Given that Indian firms spend virtually nothing on R&D, he asks, how we should understand the modernity of so-called “modern Indian capitalists”?
Modern(izing) Indian Capital?
Jason Jackson’s erudite Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry shows that, for more than a century, Indian firms labeled as “traditional” capital faced policy hostility…
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Bringing together stories of environment and Empire, genocide and ecocide, war and peace – Sunil Amrith's The Burning Earth is a razor-sharp study of accountability for the climate crisis. The Burning Earth is shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize. Learn more here https://bit.ly/3WsTunW
Beyond ridiculous decision www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
A Surprise Tenure Denial in Harvard’s Gender Studies Program Leaves Some Faculty Shaken | News | The Harvard Crimson
Durba Mitra’s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.
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Found Rule of Experts overrated but @adamtooze.bsky.social’s Statistics and the German State is outstanding and so worthy of being retaught and re-read. Prob my favorite of his books after Wages
Sam Wetherell@samwetherell.bsky.social · 11mo agoThinking about Trump's latest postponement of inflation stats. Maybe just as "the economy" was a necessary socio-technical construct of early 20th century imperial statecraft conjured into being by statistical measurement, it can also be un-made in a similar way at the beginning of the 21st...
Private consultants are taking control of how public universities are evaluated and run. My submission to the Senate university governance inquiry raises concerns about the impact of Nous Group and their dodgy UniForum data on our universities. www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor... A thread
And let me take this opportunity to say again: WHITE PPL ARE NOT OPPRESSED IN SOUTH AFRICA
Celebrating my beloved, brilliant colleague Prasenjit Duara on the occasion of his 75th and his retirement. “Colleague” doesn’t quite encompass my fondness and gratitude. Prasenjit has been mentor, teacher, friend, and teammate. I am so happy we will be toasting and roasting him for two whole days!
thank u to @itihaasnaama.bsky.social for recommending my new book The Future That Was alongside these amazing authors @kalramnath.bsky.social @abalasub.bsky.social 🥰💕 youtube.com/shorts/S99MW...
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All cuts, at all Unis, should be stopped until the rot at the top of every single one of them has been thoroughly examined. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
How one of the world's most prestigious universities fell from grace
The prestige of the Australian National University is fast fading. It must now respond to explosive allegations.
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8/8 The issue ends with a second regular review by Raheel Bashir (Jawaharlal Nehru University) on "Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India" (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2023) by @abalasub.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC' FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it? WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?
This map shows how unevenly Nobel Prizes have been distributed across the world.
Taylor Fritz is getting clowned by players like Shelton and Tiafoe about a video in which he couldn't do basic multiplication, but there's a bigger story about how tennis players are being set up to succeed—and fail—on social media videos. Read it at Bounces: www.benrothenberg.com/p/taylor-fri...
Tennis, Under the Influencers
Taylor Fritz's wins are adding up in Washington, but maybe don't ask him to multiply.
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This is based on an interview I did last week. For days, I’ve been anxious about repercussions for speaking to media. I was totally overwhelmed to discover today that my colleagues have all stuck their necks out with me. I have the best colleagues! www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901572...
'Hunger Games scenario': four ANU lecturers and only three jobs
Four lecturers going for three jobs speak out about the stress and the cost.
canberratimes.com.au
Honours student, Pippa, spoke about her thesis on the history of higher education in Australia which was about “universities and governments putting profits over people.” She said she would like to see Vice Chancellor Bell, “demanding more public funding.” www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901699...
Staff hope to find a way through ANU trouble, say cuts aren't the answer
'Education funding has been under attack for decades.'
canberratimes.com.au
What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky. So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵