Registration is now open for the annual @mbhjournal.bsky.social Pimlott Lecture! Prof Helen McCarthy will be speaking on “Family Stories: Retirement, Old Age & Generational Thinking in Britain since the 1970s” 🗓️Tues 25 Nov | 📍KCL 🔗eventbrite.com/e/modern-briti…

“Major in a subject that offers enduring, transferable skills..that could be the liberal arts…male social-science majors end up out-earning their engineering and comp-sci counterparts..as they develop the soft skills that employers consistently seek out.” theatlantic.com/economy/archiv…

Further misadventures in research with AI: I'm trying to get Claude from Anthropic to create an index of proper names from my research notes. It's not going great

Opinion | They Will Not Stop With UVA Bonnie Gordon asks what the University of Virginia will look like in four years. bit.ly/4lLLN7a

Bravo to the UVA Faculty Senate for having the moral courage to voting 46-14 in favor of a vote of No Confidence in the Board of Visitors. This is a stand for academic freedom and the integrity of Jefferson’s founding principles for the institution, and against the encroachment

Never again* *in Europe

I wrote an idiosyncratic snapshot of the state of political theory. Basically, I don't think the study of decolonization grows out of postcolonial theory. It's the intellectual afterlife of the global financial crisis and the protest decade that followed. doi.org/10.1177/009059…

Letter from 12 UVA deans to Board of Visitors goes unanswered for almost two weeks (from The Cavalier Daily) cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/0…

Over the past 150 years, the US built a university system that was the envy of the world. It made us a leader in research and science, helped shape global culture, and brought the world's brightest people to our door. It's now being dismantled with stunning speed, for nothing

Children of Men (2006), establishing shot

Offices have since moved, but when I worked on the magazine side of NYRB in 2006-7, there was indeed a glorious closet filled with NYRB Classics

Who sits on our Boards of Visitors? How can we influence our BoVs and exercise our share of university governance? We will address these questions and more on July 31 from 7-8:30pm on Zoom. Open to all, register here: zoom.us/meeting/regist…