Living in the UK is so cool because we're obsessed with social class but our society hasn't made any effort at all to consider what class is since, generously, the 1970s so every time we discuss it we choose some more or less unhinged proxy. This week it's Oasis.

I'll watch it only if I can skip to the scenes with Scott Stapp playing Sinatra

Interviewer: WERE YOU A POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHER AT THE AGE OF 20? Jean-Francois Lyotard (laughing): I am not postmodern. That word is idiot bait, you know (“C’est un mot attrape couillon ça”)!

Angela Davis on her teachers, Marcuse and Adorno. Hard for me to imagine anything like this happening today.

This guy would have 3 million followers today

John Mulaney getting on stage and mercilessly mocking everyone at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read

Du Bois' stance that carefully documenting the facts is a liberatory act & key to progress is something my mentors have modeled and perhaps the one thing I most hope to pass onto my students. Kathryn Edin Matthew Desmond Chris Blattman @reubenjmiller Source: Chris Muller's review of

Victory at last! (Our plans are measured in centuries. We have other prospects.)

Foucault

Harvard Law School 1L exam for Criminal Law, 1871. iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view…

Join us for some fantastic events in the Mannheim Centre for Criminology's seminar series this term 👇👇👇

👮‍♀️🚨 How can offender rehabilitation help address UK prison overcrowding? Johann Koehler LSE Social Policy examines what role offender rehabilitation might play in criminal justice reform in our #LSEResearchForTheWorld article. lse.ac.uk/research/resea…

really difficult to imagine a conversation about the machinery of the state happening on TV now with this level of insight or intellectual seriousness, it's just wall to wall "would you nationalise sausages"

Please do join if you're in Cambridge on Tuesday 👇

Join Mannheim Criminology today to hear Professor Stina Bergman Blix talk about 'Orderly feelings in law – an international comparison of criminal cases' with Johann Koehler chairing! More info here: lse.ac.uk/social-policy/…

“Yes I feel fully recharged after a restful holiday”

The Mannheim Centre for Criminology Mannheim Criminology has got a fantastic line-up of speakers for their Winter term's seminar series! Find out more here: lse.ac.uk/social-policy/… Johann Koehler