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As pro-Palestine students & faculty around the country are increasingly being tarred with accusations of terrorism, universities must protect their community members, as well as their missions, by refusing to operate on the basis of fear lpeproject.org/blog/free-spee…

Faculty, Students to Hold Nationwide Day of Action Defending Higher Education diverseeducation.com/faculty-staff/…

We’re excited to announce our next cohort of research grantees! Learn about these fantastic projects in the history of neoliberalism around the world here: hpeproject.org/grantees

For “Behind the News,” Doug Henwood speaks with Quinn Slobodian about the IQ- and race-obsessed second generation of neoliberals, from Murray Rothbard to Charles Murray. apple.co/3RG5kci

Today, Ntina Tzouvala argues that while tariffs have long been used to sabotage foreign competitors, Trump’s tariffs are distinctive in having no identifiable constituency within the US capitalist class. lpeproject.org/blog/on-tariff…

"sabotaging the productive capacities of both foreign and domestic firms, while loudly abandoning the USA’s role as organiser and guarantor of the global capitalist order, is a genuinely novel development. Its importance is impossible to overstate."

Today, Nicholas Handler explains the double role of civil servant unions — serving as a check on presidential abuses of power, while also expanding state capacity and thus enabling presidents to turn campaign promises into reality. lpeproject.org/blog/federal-l…

"Bargaining might limit the President’s ability to micromanage the lower reaches of the federal bureaucracy. But in exchange, the protections and autonomy provided by enforceable labor agreements allow the President to recruit skilled workers to work for the executive branch."

Today, Ava Liu argues that by portraying technological unemployment as inevitable rather than socially determined, Universal Basic Income proposals obscure the role that power structures and market dynamics play in shaping technological innovation. lpeproject.org/blog/beyond-re…

Week in review: Nicholas Handler on the importance of federal labor unions and Ava Liu on Universal Basic Income and the politics of automation. Plus, the best of LPE from around the web, including a (last) call for your recent LPE scholarship! lpeproject.org/blog/weekly-ro…

Australian Progressive Legal Studies CfP- 'The Law and Political Economy of 21st-Century Authoritarianism'

Abolitionist lawyers "leveraged anything they could to slow down the proceedings and build political support for the people in custody. These efforts were surprisingly effective. In fact, nearly 40% of all people caught in the dragnet of the law ended up free."

With summer just around the corner, are you looking to indulge in some juicy, page-turning scholarship? Today, the Blog highlights some of the hottest new forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. 🔥🔥 lpeproject.org/blog/some-of-t…

Today @ #LSAChicago2025

“Politics is not just about the problems we have,” the authors rightly observe. “It’s about the problems we see.” Unfortunately, Abundance itself suffers from a severe case of myopia. Sandeep Vaheesan bostonreview.net/articles/the-r…

Grateful to Jed (Purdy!) and The LPE Blog for this book interview: lpeproject.org/blog/the-autho…

Today, Jed Britton-Purdy interviews Shitong Qiao about neighborhood democratization in urban China: how HOAs serve as a hotbed of civic life, why the government tolerates them, and whether they vindicate modernization theory. lpeproject.org/blog/the-autho…

"The great irony (and the great tragedy) here with respect to the privatized approach to renewable energy is that the assets themselves were paid for in part by the public through tax expenditures. Why then should we the public not be demanding some stake in these assets?"

Today, Renee Tapp argues that attempts to solve the affordable housing crisis rely on a flawed understanding of housing economics and landlord business practices. To address the high price of housing, we must see it for what it is: an antitrust issue. lpeproject.org/blog/prices-an…