I’m heartbroken by what’s happening at Muhlenberg & grateful to the students reporting on it. I was thrilled when my amazing new public health colleague joined in fall 2025. I am shocked the college decided to lay him off months later w/no explanation of the criteria they used to make this decision
I wrote for the contrarian how SCOTUS shouldn’t get too much credit when it tells Trump he can’t nullify the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship—
SCOTUS told states that states can nullify the 14th &15th amendments. And more. substack.com/@leahlitman/...
We're now in a downward spiral of partisan (& racial) gerrymandering: TX, then CA, now Southern states like TN and AL.
Is there a way to stop this? In a keynote lecture I gave in February at Loyola Law School, I argue that yes, there is, but the path is narrow.
Just posted to SSRN—
In case you’re wondering what it takes to get a fancy endowed chair in Ethics at NYU: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...
"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself."
working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...
A regional order organized around Israeli impunity requires levels of coercion that are accelerating American decline. The Gulf states understand this, though each nation is drawing different conclusions. www.bostonreview.net/articles/obj...
There are lots of insightful philosophers, many under 50. Weird they weren’t invited to write an important report.
The commanding heights of universities are not liberal spaces
