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For those of you outside of academia, this would be like the Chiefs letting go of Maholmes after taking the team to the AFC Championship every year. If that sounds unbelievably brain dead, you haven’t met the bureaucrats who run some of these universities.

The progressive left tells you the 1950s were better, as labor unions were stronger and tax rates were over 90 percent. The MAGA right tells you the 1950s were better, as labor unions were stronger and Harriet was still a tradwife to Ozzie. Both are just wrong. Our politics today

In this recent article JLEO article, Ali Palida and I show how information protocols act as infrastructure for managing knowledge commons. Kafkaesque institutions are not inevitable but carefully designed communication protocols are critical to avoiding this challenge.

Fantastic resource put together by leading public policy and public administration scholars for early career scholars in this field. An excellent public good!

Columbia keeps the self-owns coming. In this case, the university hides behind academic reputation while choosing an anti-Israel activist for an esteemed position.

As Francesca Albanese tries to revive BDS—just as Arab states clamour for peace & trade with Israel—few have noticed that next week (July 9) marks 20 years since the BDS movement set out to defeat Israel by isolating & boycotting it. 🧵 So let’s review the results: (1/8)

In their new article, "Coercion against Coordination," CGM Co-Director Ilia Murtazashvili and Art Carden discuss economist W.H. Hutt's arguments for why labor unions' strike threats benefit privileged insiders. Learn more in the full article. Link below 👇

Agree - the anonymous letter writers should be ashamed. But they won't be because they believe universities should be about advocacy and activism rather than constructive discussions and dialogue. Fortunately, it's a rather small list of signatories.

Mark Cuban: "I think AI will give superpowers to not just companies, but any employee willing to learn how to put it to use. It can take your newest employee and, with some curiosity and effort, make them as accomplished as long-term employees that won’t use AI."

Coming soon … choosing between systems raises questions of desirability, feasibility and viability, how are those questions answered in a complex and diverse world?

You can't properly study relations between workers and employers without studying that between employers and consumers. In "Coercion against Coordination," Ilia Murtazashvili and Art Carden discuss W.H. Hutt's views on labor economics. Learn more in the full article 👇

Trump: We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He's very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless. 1/

Adam Smith's most famous sentence exhibits rhetorical craftsmanship: “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” Let's unpack it.

DOGEai probably has one of the best takes I've seen on the governance challenge with crisis management.

Excellent article on W.H. Hutt by Phil Magness, Art Carden, and Ilia Murtazashvili: "Consumers’ sovereignty and W. H. Hutt’s critique of the color bar," which reveals the extent of Nancy MacLean | Author, Democracy in Chains's fraudulent "scholarship." link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I would say the last three categories - lack of ideological diversity of students, staff, and DEI programming - are a much greater threat to academic freedom than the government. Harvard had the lowest ratings for academic freedom before Trump for good reason.

Great to see acknowledgment of the challenges of access. Still, MIT's OpenCourseware - with essentially entire curricula freely available - is what we should all strive for. ocw.mit.edu Also, GenAI can summarize all these books! It's an equalizer too.

A vista streamlining program would be a great accomplishment for the Trump administration. Hope it moves forward and is adopted. "Not amnesty lite": Trump's new plan for migrant worker visas axios.com/2025/07/11/tru…