Amazing new paper by Justin Driver on antisubordination theory and its strange career lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archive/…

Okay, maybe there is U.S. fascism

I wrote in memory of Helen Vendler, the giant of criticism, who was also an extraordinarily devoted, open, interested teacher. newyorker.com/culture/postsc…

🚨New Pod! 🚨 Samuel Moyn 🔭 and I talk with Kunal Parker about his new book, The Turn to Process. We talk about modernism and law; the joint development of economics, political science and law as disciplines; and a ton of other things. open.spotify.com/episode/5KXJUl…

The Progressive Caucus have just released a 2025 agenda that could rapidly shrink our economic divides if Ds win big in November

That's a BIG IF, but CPC Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal believes the way to motivate people is by offering a bold vision worth fighting for inequality.org/great-divide/h…

Excellent ⁦Jeannie Suk Gersen⁩ piece on Trump v. United States newyorker.com/news/our-colum…

Join me tomorrow (April 30th, 5pm EST) for a virtual talk and launch of my new book, Liberalism as a Way of Life, Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s

It's a fun talk, plus comes with a discount voucher code! Register here for the Zoom link. 👇

uchv.princeton.edu/events/alexand…

My take on the reaction in some quarters to the oral argument in Trump v. US. lawfaremedia.org/article/catast…

Ouch lawfaremedia.org/article/catast…

No it can't blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

'These lectures are revelatory - exhilarating, passionate, brilliant, ambitious... a belated gift to us all.' - Rebecca Comay on Gillian Rose's Marxist Modernism lectures, forthcoming 6th August but up for preorder now versobooks.com/en-gb/products…

What if there was no doctrine of anything—good or ill—until judges exercised their interpretive power, in the sense that doctrine *literally* means judge-made rules?

Second segment of my little debate with Bret Stephens:
cnn.com/video/data/2.0…

Greg with an excellent piece as usual. “The majority will cling tenaciously to every bulwark of their ignorance and intolerance, and change, in every respect so desirable, can only be brought about by external pressure”-sounds like some on the need for a liberal Supreme Court.

'Democracy has run out of future' - great to see this thoughtful, detailed engagement with my book in Foreign Policy by Ivan Krastev and Leonard Benardo
foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/27/dem………
LSE European Institute Profile Books

Magical Nominalism: The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reenchantment, and the Photograph press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Mark Mazower’s diary of a tumultuous week at Columbia on.ft.com/4aUoGlI

Definitely not nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opi…

⁦Nearly 300 ⁦Yale University⁩ faculty ask the administration to drop all charges against peaceful student protesters, take no disciplinary action against those arrested, and respect the core values and fundamental rights of assembly and free expression. docs.google.com/document/d/13G…