Natasha Lennard
@natashalennard
"No slouch when it comes to dribbling academic flapdoodle." Column @TheIntercept; prof @TheNewSchool; Author 'Being Numerous' Verso; @natashalennard.bsky.social
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My husband, Lukas Hermsmeier, reporting from Chicago with the conclusive end to this Chicago v NYC debate.
“The AfD has stunned Germany – but this was no surprise victory” – my latest op-ed for The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I have a piece in the new Political Theory on Selma James -- her account of wagelessness, her critique of capitalism’s organization of the displacement of work and workers, and her class-struggle identity politics in Wages for Housework and elsewhere doi.org/10.1177/009059…
So delighted to talk about Joel Whitney’s wonderful new book tomorrow… hope to see some of you there :)
On Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez talk w/ Katherine Franke, Kathleen Peratis & Natasha Lennard The Intercept about the fascist attacks of @columbia & Columbia UniversityLaw and of genocide advocates, McCarthyite bigots Zohar Goshen & Joshua Mitts. democracynow.org
As the fall semester begins, we take a look at the state of academic dissent on U.S. college campuses. Over the summer, universities have begun to align "with the right-wing agenda of Congress," explains Natasha Lennard, who has written extensively about "the new McCarthyism."
At NYU, Natasha Lennard says a new code of student conduct "goes further than any document that i’ve seen" in tying Zionism to Jewish identity and creating avenues to punish anti-Zionist expression as discriminatory.
Natasha Lennard At Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Professor Steven Thrasher (🍉 Dr. Thrasher still cares about Covid & Gaza🔻) has been suspended pending investigation into his involvement in campus Gaza protests. "What we are doing is something that is righteous,” he says of faculty and student protesters.
More than 940,000 people have died in America’s collection of post-9/11 conflicts due to direct violence, almost 4 million have died indirectly from causes like food insecurity and battered infrastructure, according to Brown University’s The Costs of War Project
Read Natasha Lennard's column here: interc.pt/4dBivEw