"Next year, Canada will even have an entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest." www.newyorker.com/news/global-...

What If Canada Joined the E.U.?

The idea that Canada could join the E.U. used to be a fringe topic of conversation. Donald Trump’s trade war with the country has pushed it into the mainstream.

newyorker.com

Optimiste: The cup ys halfe full Pessimiste: The cup ys halfe emptye Higher ed consultant: Facultye do not neede cups! Make do wyth less!

Our sharpest critical voice lucidly distills both the form ("somewhat akin to a brutalist Himalayan salt lamp") and the function ("a kind of cenotaph for neoliberalism")

kate wehwalt@katewagner.wehwalt.net · last mo.

I wrote about the Obama Presidential Center for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

I was told I cannot use the terms "politics" or "political" in my course description. Ah, yes, architecture, the famously unpolitical art of building...

Dümmer geht’s immer... For a taste of things happening in Florida: harpers.org/archive/2026...

Republican Machines, by Ann Manov

Can the GOP save the humanities?

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Alice Speri (@alicesperi.bsky.social) of @theguardian.com once again covering the actual story of what’s happening in HigherEd.

‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?

Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project

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First they welcomed the PragerU Freedom Truck, now this... floridapolitics.com/archives/804...

Gov. DeSantis OKs ‘Charlie Kirk Memorial Avenue’ at FIU, ‘Trump Boulevard’ in Broward

Kirk was shot and killed by a lone sniper on a Utah university campus on Sept. 10, 2025.

floridapolitics.com

You can make more money undermining the humanities, faculty governance, and critical thought than you can make actually doing serious, peer reviewed research and teaching

AHA Career Center@historyjobs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New History Job Posted Today: Director, Center for Intellectual Freedom, University of Iowa | Iowa Board of Regents

TBH, this was me watching the halftime show live on a flight from Toronto to Miami...

¿… la registración de la conferencia es $375? 😅

"At its best, government bureaucracy can be an instrument for leveling inequality and extending what Franklin D. Roosevelt called “freedom from want” to millions. The work of making freedom from want into a guarantee for everyone is still unfinished."

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

"In towns like mine, outsourcing and automation consumed jobs. Then purpose. Then people. Now the same forces are climbing the economic ladder." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...

Opinion | When A.I. Took My Job, I Bought a Chain Saw

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"It may make sense to think of the United States as a wealthy Latin American country, rather than an offshoot of Europe mysteriously governed by cowboys." newrepublic.com/article/1920...

What America Can Learn From the Americas

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

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"The future of federal architecture, if we are going by what is actually being built at scale by the US government, appears to be the prison, the wall, the climate refugee camp." nyra.nyc/articles/wre...

A more fitting headline might be: “Smithsonian Resists White-Supremacist Censorship by Fools with Zero Relevant Expertise”

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Breaking News: Miami voters elected Eileen Higgins as mayor, choosing a Democrat to lead the city for the first time in almost 30 years.

Eileen Higgins Wins Miami Runoff Election to Become City’s First Female Mayor

Eileen Higgins, a former Miami-Dade County commissioner, will also be the city’s first female mayor and the first non-Hispanic mayor since the 1990s.

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"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot

I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

"In the Chatversity, the roles are just as scripted and cynical. Faculty: 'They pretend to support us, and we pretend to teach.' Students: 'They pretend to educate us, and we pretend to learn.'" www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

currentaffairs.org

Including yours truly and a whole lot of great work by others:

Contingent Magazine@contingent-mag.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!

This is how administration acts whenever faculty tries to enforce standards. It's why most people have just given up and just hand out A's.

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 10mo ago

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

"It seems strange to me that many of my liberal friends and students have never travelled to the South... They appear to have much more interest in places like China or Japan, and ... know more about these places than they do about, say, MS or AR." www.commonwealmagazine.org/fulbright-sc...

Exposure Therapy

What could bridge the gap between the culture of elite higher education and red America? One possibility involves extending the logic of the Fulbright program.

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This episode of Know Your Enemy with Kate Wagner is fantastic! It’s also a stark reminder of the depressed state of architectural culture and architectural criticism, and how much better off we’d be (I think!) if there were more of it. know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/tru...

Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom (w/ Kate Wagner) [Teaser] | Know Your Enemy

Matt and Sam talk to McMansion Hell's Kate Wagner about Trump's White House ballroom.

know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com

This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.

Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal

Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...

thenewjournalatyale.com

"The progressive economic message is often something along the lines of 'there’s enough wealth to go around.' But a more winning message, particularly for Latinos who aspire to social mobility, might be: 'there’s enough work to go around.'" dissentmagazine.org/article/por-...

¿Por Qué MAGA? - Dissent Magazine

Progressives will only make lasting progress with Latino voters if they examine not just why Trump was appealing, but also why the left was not.

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