Our guest today, Norma Mendoza-Denton joins is to discuss her book, “Language in the Trump Era, Scandals and Emergencies.” Next, we welcome with acclaimed speak and author, Dravon James to talk about her latest book, “Freedom Is Your Birthright.”#DeborahKobyltLIVE Deborah Zara Kobylt

.National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced $24.7 Million for 208 #humanities projects nationwide including NEDCC | Northeast Document Conservation Center, Northeastern University, Ellen Cushman, Anya Bernstein, iCivics, Kate Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Present and Fellows of Harvard College, Wai-Yee Li, Framingham State and Janet McIntosh.

Today we launch! THE DAY I DIE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ASSISTED DYING IN AMERICA is **out**. Feeling beyond grateful and indebted to all the people who helped shape this book. Off into the world you go.

Congrats to the brilliant Doug Bafford as he joins the ranks of our recent PhDs such as Dr. Holly Walters, @AmyHanes7, Olivia Spalletta…🏆📚 Fascinating material on e.g. conservative evangelical anti-racism (!) in South Africa. Thanks to @Dpremawardhana! @anitahannig Brandeis University GSAS

Trump is now overtly aligning himself with QAnon. Here are some reasons why that group makes some folks feel powerful: rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Incisive comments on the 'Let's Go Brandon' slogan currently circulating amongst the right in the US: "the mutable power of semiotic peekaboo" by @JanetMc6 in Anthropology News by American Anthropological Association anthropology-news.org/articles/lets-… #AnthroTwitter #LingTwitter

“Through such repeated associations, the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” becomes saturated with the notion that the right wing is—or will be—in combat with an existential enemy.” Janet McIntosh (Janet McIntosh) on the mutable power of semiotic peekaboo. ow.ly/Naxh50KOwu2

In today's episode, John Plotz & Elizabeth Ferry spoke with linguistic anthropologist Janet McIntosh about the language of alt-right movements & the implausible deniability of "Let's go Brandon," unpacking the power of semiotic callousing. Listen Here: megaphone.link/NBN6612319971

‘Because it's easier to kill that way’: Dehumanizing epithets, militarized subjectivity, and American necropolitics bit.ly/3IuJODK

*Thank you*, Kennedy. That is an honor.

With great pleasure, we present the opening publication of the Journal of Right-Wing Studies, our "Issue Zero." With this issue, the journal is born. Many thanks! jrws.berkeley.edu/issues UC Berkeley @CasMudde Dr. Terri Givens tgivens64 हिलाल अहमद Hilal Ahmed ....and more. Please share far and wide!

📢 We call for the unequivocal protection of all medical facilities, staff and civilians across the Gaza Strip.

We condemn this latest episode of senseless violence and reiterate our call for an immediate ceasefire to prevent more deaths across the Strip. Enough is enough!

Veterans invited: a conversation with James Yee, the Guantanamo Bay chaplain who reported prisoner abuse and was accused of spying for Al Qaeda. Also poetry and performance by the inimitable Jan Barry and Jenny Pacanowski.

America's Shadow War in Yemen Has Its Own Racist Military Swag interc.pt/3UMkzSR by Nick Turse interc.pt/3UMkzSR

“The patches reduce the Houthis to the status of a not-quite-human, semi-alien Other. So the enemy is given quasi-racialized and subhuman status, which makes it easier to kill them,” Janet McIntosh told The Intercept.

Review: Anthropological Linguistics, Sociolinguistics: Janet McIntosh (2025): SUMMARY Janet McIntosh’s Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics explores how language sustains the moral, psychological, and political structures of modern warfare.… dlvr.it/TNmPPv