associate professor of political science at Ohio State University // global justice, supply chains, populism, climate change, critical theory, etc // all tweets (skeets?) produced accidentally by having my phone in a pants pocket while I walk the dog
Benjamin McKean
"The administrators gave us a big pot of money to hire someone else to ask ChatGPT why your work sucks."
Too many theorists of deliberative democracy ignore this point at their peril
Again, this clearly-it's-a-war is neither approved by Congress nor the UN Security Council, egregiously violates the Constitution & our signed/ratified treaty commitments, & if we were a serious country, we - & our journalists - would care about these things & not just ask Senators "how it's going"
At the used bookstore, the 9-year-old found an old Archie comic where the gang meets Mark Zuckerberg - a bizarre relic from a bygone era
Man, even Brian Leiter is clowning on the authors of that embarrassing Vanderbilt report
After last year’s embarrassing lawsuit blocking handicap accessible ramps and this on-going debacle about preserving the historic value of a parking lot, it seems like the German Village Society might be testing the patience of the city’s power brokers
Good piece here — and I especially appreciate that Michael Bérubé concludes by noting that the more thorough World Humanities Report didn't get anything like the attention of this report from an "eight-man, two-woman hit squad" who are scared of trans people & think the left killed everything good.
jon ben-menachem
wow, just…wow
This reminds me of that scene in The Big Short when Steve Eisman asks, “Why are they confessing?” and Vinny Daniel says, “They’re not. They’re bragging.”
Ohio progressive group raided by FBI accuses Trump’s DOJ of intimidation
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Call for Participation
International Congress on Kojin Karatani, Modes of Exchange, & the Transformation of the World
School of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM, Mexico City
June 9-11, 2027
Proposal submission period: June 15 to September 15, 2026
Cost: Registration and attendance are free of charge
Matthew Cheney
K. Anthony Appiah, Paul Boghossian, Katherine Fleming, and Sean Wilentz on what’s gone wrong in the humanities.
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”
Two editors at CHE have interviewed four of the authors of the “Boghossian Report” (including the NYU philosophers Paul Boghossian and Anthony Appiah). Professor Boghossian says in the …
My response to that "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences" is up.
tinyurl.com/y39crkzp
As I say on Facebook, I back-loaded the good stuff, like showing that the authors' account of the 2017 Hypatia controversy reveals them to be unreliable reporters.
pghrev.com
On June 5, 2026, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an article in a genre that has unfortunately become all too familiar in that venue titled “Has
The Justice Department investigation is focused on the group’s voter registration efforts, and is part of the administration’s ongoing effort to pursue allegations of voter fraud.
At least one councilmember questions if neighborhood commissions are hindering the city's urgent need for more housing.
Michael Bérubé
The Columbus Dispatch
REPORTER: I'm curious, first of all, do you still think that this war is still going much better than you expected?
JON HUSTED: Well, the military aspect of it went very well. The peace aspect has not proven to be as efficient.
REPORTER: I'm curious, first of all, do you still think that this war is still going much better than you expected?
JON HUSTED: Well, the military aspect of it went very well. The peace aspect has not proven to be as efficient.
