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...
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—
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/...
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...
There are lots of insightful philosophers, many under 50. Weird they weren’t invited to write an important report.
<p>What would it take to end the present downward spiral of partisan gerrymandering in the United States? This essay, a revised and expanded version of a
papers.ssrn.com
Whether or not the Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s unlawful EO, they have a track record of nullifying the Fourteenth Amendment.
substack.com
The ceasefire in the Persian Gulf is a prelude to an emerging, precarious realignment.
"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...
By: Ashraf Hazeyen Every semester, the adjunct professor walks into the classroom carrying the full symbolic weight of the university while possessing almost none of its protections. They enter with a...
