What happens to higher education when institutions dedicated to critical thought increasingly align themselves with the logics of war, surveillance, and national…
Tradition is not the worship of ashes. It is the preservation of fire. –Gustav Mahler Corruption as Authoritarian Spectacle Corruption has never…
Socialism or barbarism, democracy or gangster rule, shared futures or organized cruelty. History opened the question. What remains is whether people will…
Introduction: At a moment when democracy itself is under assault, the crisis of higher education can no longer be understood in narrow…
In a time of war, resurgent authoritarianism, and an escalating assault on higher education, the language of “institutional neutrality” has emerged not…
Dramatic Hollywood-style trailers, Lego parodies and fake images have gone viral as warring parties try to control media narrative. US President Donald…
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” – Isaac Asimov Israel and the United States are now at war with Iran, a…
The campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion is not simply a dispute over campus bureaucracy or the specter of so-called “woke” politics.…
In the MAGA aesthetic, cruelty appears in multiple registers, most visibly in the “Mar-a-Lago face”: plastic smiles, exaggerated cosmetic enhancement, and beauty-pageant…
What is most revealing about the MAGA aesthetic is its studied ugliness. On one side stands the grotesque excess of beauty-pageant femininity,…
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