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Since everyone is online today, it seems like as good a time as any to remind everyone to send me proposals or initial ideas for book review essays for American Anthropologist. Open to all creative and critical ideas American Anthropological Association Read more here: tinyurl.com/4f2987rc

Extremely grateful to Maëline Le Lay for this review in Cahiers de littérature orale journals.openedition.org/clo/14406

If only someone had written a book about this bullshit—of course, it would require that Randy Fine be willing or able to read. There is, thankfully, more hope that voters see through this fog of hate to the value of electing a candidate with real integrity like Zohran Kwame Mamdani.

Missing the newest titles the Police/Worlds Series? It's a good week to pick them up.

Rank choice voting is good because it defeats lesser of two evilism. Remember that the Dem establishment opposes it bc they want to be able to coerce you into voting for the federal version of Cuomo every four years.

🚨The Supreme Court has ended nationwide acceptance of birthright citizenship. Justice Sotomayor, in dissent, compares this to Dred Scott.

This should be an EVENT! Congratulations Brandon M. Terry. I look forward to reading and teaching this.

We're taking a closer look at papers being presented at the Halachic Left Forum in two weeks! First up, Raffi Magarik is writing about the Temple Mount and norms of sacred space. 🔥 Register here: bit.ly/forum-hl

Raffi Magarik Next up: (((Aryeh Cohen)))'s paper examining R' Chaim Hirschensohn's 1918 teshuvah on democracy and its relevance today. Register for the HL Forum here: bit.ly/forum-hl

“הִגִּ֥יד לְךָ֛ אָדָ֖ם מַה־טּ֑וֹב וּמָה־יְהֹוָ֞ה דּוֹרֵ֣שׁ מִמְּךָ֗ כִּ֣י אִם־עֲשׂ֚וֹת מִשְׁפָּט֙ וְאַ֣הֲבַת חֶ֔סֶד וְהַצְנֵ֥עַ לֶ֖כֶת עִם־אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ” The meanings of these words that we are to do are lo b’shamayim; they are down here with us in their use

UChicago’s Arts & Humanities division is set to undergo major structural reorganization over the next few years as the University contends with the “historic financial pressures” of the budget deficit and new federal spending priorities. chicagomaroon.com/48215/news/uch…

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Media frens, Jewish Currents is currently looking for a new executive editor: jewishcurrents.org/careers

The level of denial and willful self-delusion about what is plainly the moral catastrophe of our times is unbearable.

It's astonishing how the bloodlust of the apologists only continues to mount.

The hollow contrition of liberals is far too little too late. And an end to violence won’t suffice. The regime of supremacist domination must be dismantled.

A petition by recent alumni of UChicago College testifying to the importance and vitality of the language offerings and area studies departments at the The University of Chicago Division of the Arts & Humanities (UChicago Arts & Humanities). Delighted to see some familiar names on here:docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…