My piece today in @theatlantic is the product of five months of work, dozens of hours of interviews, and a lot of personal anguish. It tells the story of a campus consumed in unique fashion by bigotry, of reasonable students enabling rancor. Take a read! theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Today's book pick from the free monthly Damn History newsletter for readers and writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author Rachel Shteir and Yale University Press! Damn History subscriptions: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Chicago Sun-Times editorial. The lakefront needs help. But “that the Bears can just diesel their way in, Bronko Nagurski-style, and attempt to set a sweeping agenda for the future of one of the world’s most iconic water frontages is more than a bit troubling.” chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/202…

reuther.wayne.edu/node/15321

substack.com/@christinesnee…

No age is the right age to be a woman leader. Dr. Rachel Pruchno had brought in more grants ($6M) than any other scholar in Rowan Univ history & published 125 articles I'm top journals. Yet she was demoted with a 30% pay cut at age 68. marketwatch.com/story/this-wor…

"We don't have enough hands on this, and we would like your help" is a trap to compel women to do "unnecessary work"--tasks that do not make sense or could have been avoided or carried out with less effort if things were organized more efficiently. yourtango.com/career/specifi…

this week I published an essay on female aggression that made some women angry because I wasn't resoundingly pro-women, plus an essay on Andrea Dworkin that made some men angry because I wasn't resoundingly pro-men. I'm a sex wars centrist – everyone is bad!

Study (N=163) finds women professors did 75% of internal service work; men 25%. Women viewed it as compliance or an investment; men dodged with evasiveness or used barter. Yet men did 50% of external service work. @mikmeyer kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

Editorial: The Bears have yet to say why they need the lakefront. Why even think of saying yes without that? chicagotribune.com/2024/04/05/edi…

An important read- the situation at Berkeley law.berkeley.edu/article/statem…

Property has better rights in the US legal system than women. "OJ never served a day in prison for the murder of Nicole. But for that property crime, he served almost nine years." Moira Donegan theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Women's empowerment does not always equal instant progress, as it can result in backlash. Rapid advancements in women’s professional standing were found to exacerbate gender bias in entrepreneurial bank finance: more loan rejections & higher interest rates.hbr.org/2024/04/resear…

So proud of Jonathan Eig for this well-deserved recognition! Congratulations!

“Taylor Swift said, the work is the award. Still, the award is pretty nice.” Chicago’s ⁦Jonathan Eig⁩ on winning The Pulitzer Prizes⁩ for “King: A Life” chicagotribune.com/2024/05/06/chi…

So well deserved! Congratulations Jonathan Eig! I can’t wait to teach this brilliant, Pulitzer-Prize winning biography!

Completely at a loss. I'm deeply humbled by this honor and all the incredibly kind support, and will strive to prove worthy of them both.

An important and challenging piece from ⁦Andrew Koss⁩ on the academic study of Judaism- what it was and what it is. mosaicmagazine.com/essay/politics…

“If I started to wait for moments of inspiration, I would never finish a book.” —Mario Vargas Llosa buff.ly/2qhzZ3p

Plus: book reviews by Michael O’Donnell, Charles G. Salas, Alice Vernon, Anne Matthews, Robert Zaretsky, Juli Berwald, Charles Trueheart, and Rachel Shteir.