political theorist at morehouse | latest books = http://bit.ly/mlkcrc + http://bit.ly/duboisccs | in-progress books = du bois and political economy + theories of money in the black radical tradition | distance runner | posts ≠ employer
Andrew J Douglas
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Yesterday I withdrew an R&R from a good journal. Painful decision. First time I’ve ever done it. Just couldn’t manage to get the revisions through a bout of writer’s block. But I never once thought to outsource the process. Guess I still find dignity more seductive than AI’s “help.”
✨MotL 91 is live!!!✨
In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) & Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the @publicbanksnow.bsky.social (PBI) about their past & ongoing advocacy for public banking.
moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/01/t...
Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌
*Transcript forthcoming ...
I have to also plug @ajdouglas.bsky.social’s campus currency experiment at Morehouse: the Credo moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/01/t...
Cc @moneyontheleft.bsky.social
The level of dishonesty coming from this administration and the Beltline Inc. is unmatched www.ajc.com/news/2026/06...
I have a new piece out
Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering.
Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.
The Chronicle's dominant position in the higher ed media ecosystem is one of the biggest problems that we face. Endless right-wing grift, just like the New York Times.
Universities are massive fiscal authorities and hold immense political power
The Energy is ELECTRIC on Day 3 of the #AAUP2026 Higher Ed Summit in Chicago!
#DefendHigherEd
@local6741.bsky.social @unac4996ak.bsky.social
@cfaunited.bsky.social
AI propagandists are already at work building an intellectual framework portraying critiques of AI as discrimination.
Happy to see @rweingarten.bsky.social is starting to catch up with the rest of us on the dangers of "A.i." in the schools.
Now it's time for her to CANCEL the @aft.org's partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft to push "A.i." on teachers and students.
www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...
Mayor Andre Dickens cited the study when pulling support for starting light-rail on the Eastside trail.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, is backing a parent-led movement to restrict how much time elementary school students spend on laptops in class.
In this episode, Money on the Left shares audio from “The Black University & Community Currencies,” a public workshop convened by Professor Andrew J. Douglas at Morehouse College on April…
Two divisive campus leaders commissioned a report that asks an equally divisive question: Have the humanities and social sciences been corrupted by politics? https://chroni.cl/4eafiNL
this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me!
nymag.com/intelligence...
Imagine if universities could create much of the money they need without relying on neoliberal governors or fascist feds:
Imagine if students got paid for campus jobs in university currency and used them to pay tuition—or property taxes.
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social shows us how we can build this.
Having already fast tracked resistance to these products as terrorism, the next step is to frame resistance as a form of discrimination.
A group of well-known scholars convened by two prominent campus leaders studied the question and found “a deterioration in scholarly standards” across several disciplines.
www.chronicle.com
Chronicle of Higher Education
Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Meta study whether AI could become conscious — and what follows for humans if it does
Stop trying to find the money for higher ed.
Instead, politicize, design and create it.
Money on the Left
Since 2020, the Money on the Left Editorial Collective has been arguing for a new approach to university finance that we call the ‘uni’ proposal. Below are links to our essays and interviews relate…
