I had the same experience last spring when I found money to buy the new Capital translation for a class…made all the difference.
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I had the same experience last spring when I found money to buy the new Capital translation for a class…made all the difference.
After the University…page proofs
I fell in that creek around 6am this morning. No gym but good snowy walk until that point.
I imagine you’re looking for something a bit more substantial but this comment on that Current Affairs article had an in nuce truth about it: “if a chatbot can collapse your entire model, maybe the model wasn’t education — it was credential vending with academic cosplay."
After the University…page proofs
I grew up near Hickory. This was my dad: 61, factory bought out, no pension, started at Lowes: “found work in service jobs that paid a fraction of factory wages, or left the labor force. Employment rates among men plummeted; rates of addiction, premature death soared. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...
Hard agree. I printed it out and keep returning to it at the end of another confounding day. I find it particularly good for framing what’s happening w.r.t higher ed: putting pressure on those now brittle contradictions etc.
“Abductions by government agents; unexplained, indefinite detentions; the targeting of allegedly dangerous ideas—Jews have been here before and it does not end well for us.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-jewish-antisemitism-wesleyan.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
According to two **AEI** economists the Frump Team flubbed their formula: “the formula the administration relied on has no foundation in either economic theory or trade law.” https://www.aei.org/economics/president-trumps-tariff-formula-makes-no-economic-sense-its-also-based-on-an-error/
“Are we at the point where universities across the country must have presidents who are agreeable to President Trump or else risk calamitous cuts to their federal funding?” https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-tenth-demand.html
‘If the words in “Capital” become overly familiar they lose their revelatory power and become yet another veil that purports, paradoxically, not to be a veil.’
Peter E. Gordon on a new translation of Marx:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Was just rereading your first book on science vs market logic and Big Science. We’ve forgotten or were just ignorant about the complexities and politicking that made the post war university- science settlement. And what a historical anomaly
On translating and thinking with Marx: “There is a fetishism of commodities, but there is also a fetishism of authors and original meanings. Thinking with Marx can often mean thinking against him, or even past him.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Columbia going hard
Here’s a recording of Chris’ amazing, deeply moving, and inspiring talk this afternoon on building a future for the humanities. So much to think about: m.youtube.com/watch?v=yVNc... 🗃️
Not a good start to the day when you’re trying to get the kid to school but are late because you’re talking (yelling?) back to the madness on NPR as they interview Dartmouth president and boy was that crazy.
The costs of our on-demand & cheap lifestyle…great, in-depth reporting here www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...
They’re nationalizing McKinsey & Company and the whole damn consultancy model.
They’re nationalizing McKinsey & Company and the whole damn consultancy model.
Whose democracy? “The Democrats bet that a desire to defend shared traditions, symbols of American democracy could transcend profound divides…America, as an ideal, was supposed to smooth over the contradictions. But “America” in this sense is over.” www.thedriftmag.com/editors-note...
Brutal championship round finish to the fall season ends with pushups for many a missed sign.
Ignore Yale Facism School on NPR & read Shenk: “Resistance politics is reactionary….The other side decides the terms of debate; it ends w/ finding yet another norm under assault, a new outrage to be tutted over, another institution that needs protecting” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/o...
lol. Hi Ted
