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Decades of defending the humanities in the face of relentless defunding has warped the minds of so many humanists, who now justify their work through appeals to its “real-world” use-value — as politics or activism — claims that are at once preposterous and a mark of austerity 1/

Threats to academic freedom at Penn reached alarming new heights today. Unelected trustees with no academic expertise are attempting a hostile takeover of the core academic functions of the University of Pennsylvania. 🧵 Philly Inquirer has the story: inquirer.com/education/marc…

No, *this* is the New Antisemitism

Huge congrats to UofL History Department assistant professor, Dr. Elise Franklin, for being awarded a grant from the Am Phil Society! With this grant, Dr. Franklin will conduct archival research in France this summer for a new book project, Abduction in the Archives.

Remarkable but not wholly surprising that the least protected faculty feel most empowered to speak out thenation.com/article/cultur…

The very administrators now cracking down on student protests’ “disruptiveness” have been dismantling higher education for decades, Dennis M. Hogan writes. jewishcurrents.org/who-has-the-ri…

Spare a thought today for those of us with a child named Theo

Then why has having a second child made me more deranged and psychotic?

Thanks to everyone at Univ Nebraska Press, my book is almost here!

We love a discount -- the coupon code for my book is here! Use the code 6AF24 for 40% off: tinyurl.com/yu6tkmrt Univ Nebraska Press

For the Duke University Press blog, here are five recent books and articles that I think are good for thinking about critical history.

Looks great

A whole world of humanistic inquiry is slowly passing, one that feels like it would be impossible to recreate in this day and age - to all our detriment.

My 4-year-old is becoming a Hegelian, please send help

Uhhh okay thanks I guess?