Wow - AAU President having a real Brad Karp moment. She believed she had a deal that Compact 2.0 would have no impact on funding… www.chronicle.com/article/for-...

Hope folks at Yale are reading this today.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Trump “came up with a completely false quote saying I acknowledged things I never said. “My god." — Brad Karp, then the chairman of the law firm 2/2

The Yale Daily News on alumni organizing against #Yale President McInnis and the trustees' rush to surrender to the Trump administration. yaledailynews.com/articles/in-...

Compelling read from @nhold.bsky.social -- Moyn's "suggestion that academia would be better off if mandatory retirement were brought back something that very much sticks in my craw. It is, to be blunt, offensive management bullshit." lpeproject.org/blog/what-ro...

What Rolls Downhill

Recent calls for mandatory retirement in academia are a reminder that class and other social hierarchies are something like mountains with increasingly dense fog toward their peaks: the higher up one…

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I mean, read everything Gabe writes, but especially the things he writes for the LPE blog 👀 This piece does an excellent job laying out why we can't just sub in any identity category to Stuart Hall's famous formulation & the stakes of what it means to say something is a mediator of class

LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · last wk.

Today, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social explains why a clear picture of how age mediates class would reveal not gerontocracy, but capitalism and the fractionated class system it produces.

Powerful call to Yale's Trustees to "stand for academic freedom and independence." "You are among the most privileged people in America, which means the cost of courage is lower for you than for almost anyone else being asked to show it." 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Yale’s trustees face a decision with profound consequences

A lesson from Hungary: Boards don't capitulate to authoritarians. The people on them do.

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Trump is trying to destroy academic freedom - he sees it as an impediment to his corruption of our democracy. I know university leaders, like those at Yale, are in a tough position given his attacks, but they are under no obligation to agree to anything other than what's required under existing law.

"This wave of anticipatory obedience is all the more egregious because – just as in the debates at Yale – non-leaders might sometimes just know better."

The federal government isn’t America’s only authoritarian institution | Jan-Werner Müller

Backlash at Yale to its negotiations with Trump shine a light on the danger of smaller authoritarian structures in civil society

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I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Compared to what?” is always the essential question when asking about critiques of higher education & universities, whether we’re discussing declining trust, freedom of speech, viewpoint diversity, or any of the other things.

“Viewpoint diversity” is a trap For @table.media, I wrote about the Yale report on “Trust in Higher Education” – and why we will not be able to defend academic freedom by accepting the terms set by a rightwing campaign intended to impose reactionary rule. Some thoughts, since it is in German:

Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft lässt sich nicht in den Begriffen der radikalen Rechten verteidigen

US-Hochschulen üben Selbstkritik wegen mangelnder „viewpoint diversity“. Weshalb hinter diesem Begriff eine jahrzehntelange Kampagne gegen die Idee einer freien Universität und Gesellschaft steht, erk...

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1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

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"[Sen. Richard Blumenthal] added that both settlement offers had been made without any demand from the Trump administration." Without. Any. Demand.

The letter comes after the U.S. Department of Justice accused the Yale School of Medicine of illegally discriminating against white and Asian applicants.

Some Yale professors threaten legal action if university settles admissions complaint with DOJ

The letter comes after the U.S. Department of Justice accused the Yale School of Medicine of illegally discriminating against white and Asian applicants.

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Yale getting relentlessly mocked. Good. The president and trustees deserve it. Too bad the rest of us have to go down with this ship and its reckless captains. abovethelaw.com/2026/07/yale...

Yale Law School Begging Yale University To Find Its Spine Against Donald Trump - Above the Law

You know... Harvard had the courage to fight back.

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Universities in the US are governed now by "liberal autocrats." It's time to bring faculty, students, staff and alumni into leadership. Trustees and presidents are out of touch, unaccountable, and in this moment, selling us out to the Trump administration. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Higher Education Revolution We Need to Have

Our universities are selling us out. If we want that to change, we have to change the way they’re run.

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BREAKING: A federal appeals court ion Tuesday struck down parts of Florida’s Stop WOKE Act, calling it a “breathtaking assertion of power” that unconstitutionally censors what state university and college professors can discuss with their students about race, sex and other forms of bias.

Federal court strikes down Florida’s Stop WOKE Act in higher ed

The ruling said Florida’s law was unconstitutional and wrongly tried to ban the speech of professors and students.

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Keep fighting. Please.

Jennie Coughlin@jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 4w ago

The dean of Yale Law School and some members of its faculty are trying to stop a settlement between the university and the Trump administration, warning that an agreement could jeopardize Yale’s independence, according to two people familiar with the deliberations.

Yale President McInnis and the trustees are out of step with their faculty, including the current and present deans of the law school, in seeking a settlement from the Trump administration. Students and alumni also oppose. Who does Yale leadership actually represent? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...

Yale Law School Fights to Stop Trump Deal

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Stand Up for Yale, a group representing thousands of #Yale alums condemns the Trump administration investigation and warns against settlement, calls on the university to defend its students, its independence, its lawful commitment to an inclusive academic community. More at www.standupforyale.org

Very bad news -- Yale leadership needs to hear from you on this. If Yale wants to restore trust in higher ed it should not be Paul Weiss here - it should be standing up for higher ed and our students. Contact info below! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

Yale Seeks Trump Administration Deal as It Faces Sprawling Investigation

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Just posted an updated version of my draft article on how student loans stabilized US higher education spending for two generations through a sort of anti-politics, but undermined its own stabilizing qualities over time, helping to open space for the current crisis papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Gr8 post. “If there has been this great disavowal, where is the evidence? How have the casebooks changed, how has legal education changed? And where are the renunciations of Coase, Posner, and other canonical works, by a new generation of L&E scholars?” lpeproject.org/blog/two-dog...

Two Dogmas of LPE Critics

Is LPE scholarship anti-empirical? Has contemporary law and economics become a neutral social science? Don't believe everything you hear in Chicago.

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Is LPE scholarship anti-empirical? Has contemporary law and economics become a neutral social science? Don’t believe everything you hear in Chicago! From me on the blog today: lpeproject.org/blog/two-dog...

Two Dogmas of LPE Critics

Is LPE scholarship anti-empirical? Has contemporary law and economics become a neutral social science? Don't believe everything you hear in Chicago.

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Excellent @lpeblog.bsky.social discussion about the LPE project that sheds light on what must be done to confront our democratic crisis. As an intellectual formation, the LPE project also holds key insights for those of us doing work on the political economy of media. lpeproject.org/blog/what-is...

What is LPE? An ALPE Lightning Round

What is LPE? Is it a reaction to law and economics? Does it have a method? What is its normative north star? At this year's ALPE conference, Amy Kapczynski, Corinne Blalock, Aslı Bâli, Sabeel Rahman…

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Now up on @ssrn.bsky.social, my latest with @levmenand.bsky.social on The Case for Administrative Law Pluralism, forthcoming in the exciting new edited collection by @blakeprof.bsky.social, @joshuamacey.bsky.social, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social, and Bijal Shah. (1/4) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My column today for @insidehighered.com criticizes the new report on the decline of the #humanities and all its flaws. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Academic Authoritarianism in New Attack on Humanities Scholars

There is virtually no evidence offered in the report for its sweeping conclusions about the entirety of the humanities.

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Good analysis of Yale's abandonment of public good in it's "mission." "While some see this as progress, I am inclined to agree with Wesleyan University’s Michael Roth and see it as a “defense strategy” that is making a “terrible situation worse.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Yale’s Shrinking Mission (opinion)

Narrowing the mission of the university is an unfortunate choice.

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not sure if everyone can access this, but I just learned about some dramatic changes to SSRN from Steve Bainbridge's Substack. This is really bad; SSRN has been how I keep up with scholarship in my field from a variety of researchers www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...

The Social Science Research Network Has Jumped the Shark

Significant and unwelcome changes to what had been legal academia's major open source scholarly repository and notice system

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How to replace @ssrn.bsky.social? Look to @socarxiv.bsky.social, talk to @philipncohen.com. Buy lawarxiv.info and have Claude or even real humans(!) code a reboot. Get on the law librarian listserv and spread news about the new common repository. A collective action problem, but solvable.

Nate Ela@nateela.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Standard alternative needed, & fast. @socarxiv.bsky.social is perhaps a good model. Would love to see widespread buy-in from law libraries (& philanthropies run by former law librarians like @palfrey.org). Lawarxiv would be cheap to code/reboot; solvable collective action prob to get everyone on it.