Tuesday, June 9, 2026

The Ceiling of Liberalism and the Concept of Capital (guest post)

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by Christopher Nealon , John Dewey Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University This is one of talks from the CHCI panel, "The Humani...
Friday, June 5, 2026

Liner Note 54. The Humanities We Can Build Right Now: Introduction

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Banff, Alberta back country on June 3, 2026   This piece is my introduction to a panel at the Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Humanities...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

UC Irvine Is Once Again Laying Off Faculty and Staff to Pad Its More than $800 million in Core Reserves (Guest Post)

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  UC Irvine on April 13, 2018      by Trevor Griffey, School of Humanities, UC Irvine Last May, 2025, I had the radicalizing experience of s...
Friday, May 22, 2026

From Community Benefit to Rent-Seeking Scam: UC Irvine's Division of Continuing Education (Guest Post)

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  510 E. Peltason Dr, UC Irvine   by Trevor Griffey, School of Humanities, UC Irvine The idea of continuing education— sometimes also ...
Monday, May 11, 2026

Standing Up for the UC Means Standing Up Against Zionism (Guest Post)

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Venice, Italy on May 8, 2026    by  Sean L. Malloy,  Department of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES),  UC Merced In Septem...
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Saturday, May 2, 2026

Liner Note 53. AI and the Public Good

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Wayne State, Detroit on April 12, 2019   This is the corrected text of a talk I gave online to the Wayne State University conference, “Pu...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Liner Note 52. Fighting for an Interdiscipline: The Humanities' Future

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New Haven People's Center on April 18, 2026   I gave this talk at the 45 th Anniversary Conference of the Whitney Humanities Center, Y...
Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Liner Note 51. Academic Freedom of the Third Kind, in a Very Bad Time

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Stonehenge on December 21, 2025    In the end, the university’s main value is its intellectuality, the treatment of everything that is with ...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Liner Note 50. When Will UCOP Stop Hurting UC Campuses?

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UC Board of Regents, March 2017     That is the question. This is the answer: Never.    Or not at least until the campuses fight and ch...
Monday, March 23, 2026

A Joint MESA-AAUP Report Shows the Corruption of Anti-Semitism Charges (Guest Post)

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Cornell University on July 11, 2014    By Dr. Lori Allen, writing from London  Chris Newfield’s recent post discussed a trend in university...
Monday, March 9, 2026

Liner Note 49. University Voice Under a Necro-President

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Genoa, Italy, on June 26, 2024    You aren’t likely to have looked for criticism of Trump’s illegal war on Iran from college presidents o...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2026

An Invitation: Know Your Governing Board (Guest Project)

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UC President Mark Yudof Reviews Demands Nov 2011   Chris here: I've criticized pervasive info failures in higher ed, from campus budget ...
Monday, February 23, 2026

Liner Note 48. The Faculty’s Budget Fight at UCLA

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UCLA Royce Hall on May 14, 2018    By early spring of the   annus horribili s 2025, the UCLA Senate had lost patience with a UCLA Administra...
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Monday, February 16, 2026

Liner Note 47. Did The Atlantic’s Anti-Woke Bias Spoil its Analysis of Humanities Funding Death?

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  East Village on October 31, 2022    Looks like it.     There’s some good stuff in Tyler Austin Harper’s  Atlantic  article,  “The Multibil...
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