It's over because people don't value research. They think it's an insane luxury to be able to get a PhD and people who do it should suffer for it. The number of people I've met *who work at universities* and dismiss research blows my mind.
Doctoral programs are pausing or cutting back admissions. This is just the latest signal that the future of the university is under threat, Ian Bogost writes: theatlantic.com/science/arch…
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Check out our powerhouse lineup and sign-up to attend:
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@glgerstle @nmaggor #BeyondNeoliberalism
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@glgerstle and I are pleased to announce an upcoming international gathering of scholars, thinkers & policymakers to envision a political economy of a post-neoliberal world: beyond-neoliberalism.org Further details coming in January. Thanks to the @Hewlett_Found for its support.
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Calling all historians, legal scholars, constitutional studies colleagues - the State Constitutions Lab seminar with Adam Sopko will be on Feb 27 @ 1PM Eastern to discuss his essay "The Supervisory Power of State Supreme Courts"
Held via Zoom RSVP Here: forms.gle/Qh1MxZ6TCSCZHyan9
New syllabus for my constitutional history course starts tomorrow. Vermont and NH constitutions, Carter Braxton's 1776 address to the Virginia convention, Thomas Hutchinson's 1768 dialogue that Bailyn wrote about, and James Wilson's tour de force to the PA ratification convention
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@phenomenalworld has established itself as an indispensable and vibrant forum for fresh thinking in political economy. Delighted to step into this conversation again with a contribution on railroads & the history of industrial policy in the U.S.: phenomenalworld.org/analysis…
Inscription in an 1870 book of Irish songs I have through my grandmother - probably to her grandfather. “Learn to be a good Irishman”
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Judge Sutton's opinions are always a great read. These two paras from a 4th Amend case today—on why an officer's subjective belief that drugs were not present doesn't matter, and on how to evaluate claims of people being nervous—show his typical craft. opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinion… #N
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Clonmel Courthouse, #Tipperary, where Thomas Francis Meagher & other Young Irelanders were tried after the 1848 Rebellion. The verdict delivered here set Meagher on a path that led to the battlefields of the American Civil War, and command of the Irish Brigade. #IrishDiaspora
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The Royal Navy fleet in Berehaven, #Cork in 1802, including many ships that fought at the Nile and would fight at Trafalgar, e.g. HMS Temeraire (of Turner painting fame) at Number 4. Sailors of the Temeraire and other men from some of the fleet mutinied while anchored here.
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@glgerstle and I are pleased to announce an upcoming international gathering of scholars, thinkers & policymakers to envision a political economy of a post-neoliberal world: beyond-neoliberalism.org Further details coming in January. Thanks to the @Hewlett_Found for its support.
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Today being the anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition, on December 5, 1933, we pause to remember the particularly measured and balanced reaction of perhaps the greatest judge of the 20th century, Judge Learned Hand, to Prohibition's end:
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For all who are following recess appointments controversies: My @UVALaw colleague Jessica Lowe just posted a short essay on St. George Tucker's analysis of Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution in his 1790 law lectures:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Certain of victory, Speaker Johnson promises he and Trump will abolish Obamacare, bring back denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog… via @TPM
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Nov 15 event I'm participating in together with Gavin Wright, Caitlin Rosenthal and others. There's a zoom option here: tinyurl.com/commoditiessympo…
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For @NYTimes, my report on the battle over the continuity of Alabama's prison labor system (which provides corporations subsidized day labor & hundreds of millions in $$ for the state) even after a 2022 constitutional reform banned ‘Involuntary Servitude’
nytimes.com/2024/10/26/busin…
Scholars of state constitutions - please join us in person or virtually on Thu. Oct. 24 @ 2:30 PM for a panel about the State of the Field of State Constitutional Studies. For more: stateconstitutionslab.org
























