On Thursday, Interintellect goes ABUNDANCE! A deep dive into how to do the economy better 🍇 Hosted by @ericara.bsky.social | In partnership with Otterpine Books helping indie authors worldwide! interintellect.com/salons/gener...

Generation Hope: How Inclusive Economics can help us thrive— A conversation with Arunjay Katakam

Climate crisis, economic instability, and vast income inequality across the globe — it is easy to get discouraged by the scale and complexity of the challenges we face. A new book argues there is also...

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We are now accepting submissions for the 5th annual American Religion Dissertation Prize. More details here, and spread the word! www.american-religion.org/announcements

Announcements — American Religion

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Fantastic.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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Ages 0-4 are the most important, emotionally & intellectually, in human development. Yet, in the US, we have a very high rate of childhood poverty and a broken child care system. Congratulations to New Mexico for leading the way forward for high quality, free child care. Other states must follow.

I love how the kids say “search it up” — feel right.

If dictatorship was really based on charisma, these would be the United States of Natasha Lyonne.

My book has a pub date and website!

Philip Leventhal@philipleventhal.bsky.social · last yr.

"[D]elivers new and significant insights into how conservative leaders employed the 'liberal media' claim to build a movement that came to dominate US politics and policy formation." Coming this Fall! MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA, by @ajbauer.bsky.social. bit.ly/4iQN62F @columbiaup.bsky.social

Happy Mother’s Day! (sound on)

Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume! "At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics" It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓

Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair

An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w

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Come! @reecepeck.bsky.social and @rushkoff.com have written some of the very best stuff for understanding the styles and coalitions that bind and sustain the current right.

Institute for Public Knowledge@ipk.bsky.social · last yr.

Join the IPK and the Global New Right Working Group on April 22nd at 5:30 PM for a lecture by @reecepeck.bsky.social, “More than Money and Algorithms: The Cultural Roots of Trump’s Alt-Media Strategy,” in conversation with @ericara.bsky.social and @rushkoff.com. ipk.nyu.edu/events/discu...

April evening, NYC 2025 It’s good to have the light back.

Come! @reecepeck.bsky.social and @rushkoff.com have written some of the very best stuff for understanding the styles and coalitions they bind and sustain the current right.

Institute for Public Knowledge@ipk.bsky.social · last yr.

Join the IPK and the Global New Right Working Group on April 22nd at 5:30 PM for a lecture by @reecepeck.bsky.social, “More than Money and Algorithms: The Cultural Roots of Trump’s Alt-Media Strategy,” in conversation with @ericara.bsky.social and @rushkoff.com. ipk.nyu.edu/events/discu...

Incoherence isn’t so much a sign of hypocrisy as coalitional speech. The voice of the politician speaks many ways at once. It’s all umbrella and dog whistle, or strategic ambiguities — necessarily so.

I love the phrase “keep your powder dry.”

Waking up to a downstairs piano-violin father-son duet. Perfect Sunday.

Friday DOGE fired almost everyone at NEH. UVA, VaTech, etc should be staffing up with this expertise ASAP. Also NIH, NSF, NEA.

Sometimes a writing project takes so long because first you have to build a language world. If you want to eat an apple, solve for Creation etc.

World circuit breaker.

Working on a piece that defends funding for NPR and PBS. Whatever their problems, we cannot let Fox News become our default "public sphere." There needs to be alternatives, including imperfect yet aspirational ones.

Reading Thucydides now and man is it hitting a bit too close to home

See also, the opening credits of Star Wars

erica robles anderson@ericara.bsky.social · last yr.

The Peloponnesian War starts as Athens is taxing the shit out of allies for access to its markets (ahem, tariffs) to pay for building its walls.

The Peloponnesian War starts as Athens is taxing the shit out of allies for access to its markets (ahem, tariffs) to pay for building its walls.

Rallies tracked by Hands Off. Cool interface for collective representations of collective action.

It’s the very little things.

What if we begin with a different model?

Yes, university STEM research has produced many wonderful innovations and products, but we need to move beyond pure transactional thinking about value. Research in the social sciences and humanities is just as valuable, as is education in writing and thinking. That should be part of the narrative.

Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · last yr.

Former Columbia provost Jonathan Cole-"Columbia’s leaders have weakened...our leadership among the greatest educational institutions in the world...If we don’t resist collectively by all legal means...we are apt to see the destruction of our most revered institutions” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...

“Too many people and institutions with ample power and resources to defend themselves nevertheless have refused to stand up to MAGA intimidation. Instead, they have betrayed fundamental values that are the cornerstone of our democracy.” —@jenrubin.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Cowardice and Capitulation Stain the Legacy of Once-Esteemed Mega Law Firm

Paul, Weiss joins the list of institutions and individuals with ample resources to defend themselves, who nevertheless have refused to stand up for justice in the face of MAGA intimidation

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