“Taken together, Mamdani’s responsibly costed economic policies form a coherent agenda that rejects austerity and embraces the city’s power to make life more affordable for New Yorkers.”

Someone at the CSA is taking the piss.

The Stuart Hall Essay Prize is reopening to submissions. New entries will be accepted until 5pm, 3rd November 2025. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18-30 inclusive, the prize invites new writing that connects with Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.

It’s a peculiar thing about the United States—people here frequently disavow the part the U.S. played in giving original shape to racial taxonomies that are now global in scope, and yet Americans often insist that they ought to have primacy over what racial classifications mean.

Prehensile feet.

This line—from the opening vignette to Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s “An Unthinkable History” in Silencing the Past—often seems to be conveniently overlooked by his interpreters in the U.S. Worth recalling it today.

BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza on.ft.com/3GxOydb

This should be an EVENT! Congratulations Brandon M. Terry. I look forward to reading and teaching this.

This really is astonishingly good.

I love when “nuance, balance, and a willingness to listen” is the trumpeted position of someone who thinks that just because a government proscribes an organization, it must be the case that it warrants no support or solidarity. The nuance of a bootlicker, I guess.

I still feel bad for adding an “h” to Antony Anghie’s name in a bibliography, so I am in no place to cast stones here, but this misnaming of Sybil Crowe in Martti Koskenniemi’s /The Gentle Civilizer of Nations/ might be my new favorite typo.

“Agency” talk strikes again.

This is devastating to watch.

Congratulations Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway. That’s quite the get!