www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Trump’s war on Harvard was decades in the making. This letter proves it | Bernard E Harcourt | The Guardian

Trump’s war on Harvard was decades in the making. This letter proves it | Bernard Harcourt

A message tucked into an old book serves as a reminder that the assault on the institution is part of a long-planned effort

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The Embattled University — this special issue of the jouranl Aocial Research could not be mote prescient, alas. I am glad to have been part if this team: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54948

📍 Live from #CivSocWeek 2025 Keynote @azmanova.bsky.social at the opening session: "A future of peace & justice is within reach—not just for Europe, but for the world. But when leaders refuse to take us there, civil society must lead the way." 👉 Watch live: europa.eu/!3qwk8C

How to make sense of Trump's economic policies kpfa.org/episode/lett...

James Galbraith on Tariff Wars, Inflation, Recession, & the Politics of the Trump's Economy | KPFA

Guest: James K. Galbraith is Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.  He is also a Senior Scholar with the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and part of the executive comm...

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#Precarity looming large 5 years on from #COVID-19: @azmanova.bsky.social via @iwm.at at reflects on power of #BigPharma to refuse public-private initiative – competitiveness ‘killed off … necessary policy’. www.eurozine.com/capitalisms-...

Capitalism’s nervous breakdown

Competitive labour markets, whether private or public, often set profit margins over employment rights. Job insecurity and new forms of exploitation are on the rise. As is the Far Right, cashing in on...

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🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud

Blinken trashed democracy, humanitarianism, and liberalism, stating that Israel's Gaza policy was OK because backed by majority of Israelis, killing civilians justified by Hamas embedding themselves in the population,and Israel upholds the rule of law because it has procedures: tinyurl.com/yrxb2y77

Journalists berate Blinken over Gaza policy at his final press conference

They repeatedly interrupted as Blinken sought to defend his handling of the conflict.

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An enlightening account by James Galbraith, in book review form, of the struggle to tie the Fed to public purpose. The Origins of the Modern Era of the Federal Reserve | Institute for New Economic Thinking www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives... #inet

The Origins of the Modern Era of the Federal Reserve

Fifty years ago the actions of the Federal Reserve mattered. Today, so far as the aggregate measures of the American domestic economy go, they do not.

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Journal Emancipations' latest issue is out -- The Critique of Capitalism Now scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipation...