Saturday, October 11, 2025

Liner Note 40. AI’s Two Pathways: 2025 Has Discredited Booster Assumptions of 2024

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Sea of Marmara, Türkiye on October 3, 2025   In the midst of enormous political pressures, universities also face a steady undertow from ...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

Liner Note 39. Attack Theory for Education

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Bodrum Castle, Türkiye Sept 12, 2025        At our friend Andrea’s birthday in Hampshire last weekend, the Man in the Lime Suit said to ...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Liner Note 38. The University of California's Charlie Kirk Tribute Act

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UC Berkeley on May 29, 2024    I’m opposed to the University of California’s current responses to the Trump Administration’s multiple shaked...
Monday, September 1, 2025

Why Should We “Stand Up for the UC?” (Guest Post)

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Paris on September 1, 2016     By Sean L. Malloy, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES), University of California...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

The coalition of UC unions condemns Trump’s attacks on the University of California and the Californian economy

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UC Santa Barbara on March 5, 2020      On Friday August 8, the Trump administration demanded a $1 billion "settlement" from UCLA a...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

Liner Note 37. Chicago's Gift to Trump

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Hyde Park, Chicago on June 25, 2017    It’s great when you’re President of the United States and are unlawfully taking apart the national sy...
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Sunday, August 10, 2025

Liner Note 36. UCLA in the Extortion Machine

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UCLA on May 14, 2018     It’s a Friday in the 6 th   grade, when you eat at the lunch truck parked outside the school gate. While standing i...
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Liner Note 35: How Will Faculty Ever Have Managerial Power? (Paxson, Tooze, Ganz, Campos, Khalidi)

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No Regrets Sunday Morning, Victoria Line    I’ve often broached this topic, most recently in relation to the new UC Irvine plan for hyper-au...
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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Liner Note 34: Derailing the Columbia Precedent

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Milos, Greece, on July 19, 2025    There’s a drift towards seeing the Penn and Columbia University deals with the Trump Administration   as ...
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Friday, July 25, 2025

The onto-epistemic limits of current American academic debates, Or what the modern West can’t think (Guest Post)

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  Kleftiko, Milos, Greece on July 21, 2025    by  Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill   Note: This text is based on a ...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Liner Note 33. Trouble at the Irvine Core (UC Irvine Part 2)

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UCI May 25, 2018    We saw in Part 1  that UCI Finance attributes losses to the Schools –the academic core—rather than to the non-core or me...
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Friday, July 11, 2025

Liner Note 32. The Academic (Class) Crisis of Unilateral Budgeting

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Serpentine, Hyde Park London May 18, 2025    UC Irvine is facing major cuts to its academic core, bigger in some places than others.  UCI le...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

University with A$1.5 Billion in Income Snuffs World-Renowned Humanities Center to Save Some Change (Guest Post)

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Australian National University     by Prof.  Kylie Message-Jones, The Australian National University The  Australian National University  (A...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Liner Note 31. The University’s False Economy: UC Irvine, Part 1

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UC Irvine on May 8, 2018    As Trump’s blunderbuss shoots the bottom out of the research boat, how will UC Irvine, the   system’s middle cas...
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Friday, July 4, 2025

Liner Note 30: UPenn’s Trans Athlete Sell Out is Also a Disaster for Universities

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Dún Laoghaire Ireland on June 18, 2025 I haven’t found dissent in the standard places about Penn’s capitulation to Trump on transgender wome...