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Alexander Livingston

@alivingston.bsky.social

Political theory @ Cornell. Fellow at Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures. Co-director of Democracy Scholars. Thinking about race, religion, and disobedience. Latest book: https://tinyurl.com/3fx7mu4b https://www.alexander-livingston.com/

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Cornell AAUP@handle.invalid · 6d ago

The Cornell AAUP Chapter is outraged by the sexual violence that was committed at Chi Phi in 2024. We call for the community to come together on Monday, October 5 at 4:30pm in Ho Plaza, to stand in support of the survivors of sexual violence. Our full statement is here.

We are outraged by the continued culture of misogyny and by the continued pervasiveness of violence against women at Cornell and at universities and colleges across the country. We are outraged that so many women at Cornell have reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact. We are deeply disturbed by Cornell University administration’s response and communications to the community, initially in 2024 and now. Cornell administrators point community members to resources, but do not exercise leadership in creating space to process the harm, the outrage, and to change the culture of misogyny. In moments of crisis such as this, we need leaders, not administrators. The Cornell administration’s responses reveal its failure to understand and respond appropriately to actual harm and threats to safety on campus. It has used its internal communications to issue elaborate accusations, and it has imposed excessive discipline against students for political protests where there was no threat of harm or violence. And yet, when it comes to sexual violence, Cornell’s communications have been oblique or silent, leaving the community frustrated, fearful, or angry about the administration’s lack of transparency about how it will take effective responses. We stand in solidarity with victims of sexual violence. We are outraged by the treatment of Jane Doe. We stand in solidarity with student organizations who have been demanding better, with faculty, staff, and students who have been organizing spaces to process and demand change. We do not yet know precisely how or why this case was so egregiously mishandled. What we do know is that it is the most recent example of the systemic failure of Cornell to protect its community — from patients at Cornell Weill to Cornell students — from sexual violence. This system must change.
Benjamin McKean@handle.invalid · 2mo ago

“We find ourselves alienated from our basic capacities for cooperative self-rule and nonviolent conciliation. This alienation is due to the hegemonic understanding of politics as the practice of rule we inhabit no less than to the modern political forms and technologies that have remade society...”

Alexander Livingston@alivingston.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social just published a short essay I wrote for their spring conference, "Revisiting ‘On Violence’" Titled "Power without Violence" its a provocation to rethink Arendt's essay as if the history of nonviolence actually mattered. medium.com/quote-of-the...

Alexander Livingston@alivingston.bsky.social · 2y ago

“If Columbia or another university confronts the administration on its own, it will lose. If America’s nearly 6,000 universities and colleges launch a campaign in defense of higher education, odds are that Trump will lose.”

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Alexander Livingston@alivingston.bsky.social · 2y ago

A diary of year 1: “I have read several reactions by Germans to the rise of Nazism and I was struck by their difficulty to understand where the daily events they lived through could or would lead. In retrospect, we will know, analyze, and make sense.”

Adam Przeworski@adamprz.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

Alexander Livingston@alivingston.bsky.social · 2y ago

As someone who works in King archives it’s safe to say the EO release will be almost entirely FBI dirt of questionable provenance and veracity, whose sole effect will be to continue the FBIs long legacy of slandering King www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

MLK’s family fear new batch of assassination files will have FBI ‘smears’

Family of Martin Luther King Jr says Trump mandate could revive J Edgar Hoover’s efforts to discredit revered activist

theguardian.com

Alexander Livingston@alivingston.bsky.social · 2y ago

In 2003, an army of unqualified finance bros just out of college were sent to “reconstruct” the Iraqi state. Twenty years later, the imperial boomerang comes flying home to destroy the US state this time by way of Silicon Valley.

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Alexander Livingston@alivingston.bsky.social · 2y ago

Last day of the American political thought class. From the new right to the new new right: Goldwater, Rothbard, Ellmers, Vermeule. The only vein of genuine radicalism on the American political scene today. Be careful what you ask for…..