Bernard E. Harcourt (@bernardharcourt) 's Twitter Profile
Bernard E. Harcourt

@bernardharcourt

Author and professor @Columbia and @EHESS_fr. Now mostly at @bernardharcourt.bsky.social and @bernard.e.harcourt on Instagram. Join me over there!

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Professor Bernard E. Harcourt explains how "Broken Windows Theory" ended up serving as the intellectual foundation for outrageously harmful practices like stop and frisk. currentaffairs.org/news/why-the-f…

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About to give last seminar of 2024 at EHESS Campus Condorcet in northern Paris (St. Denis) far far away from the states (seminar on *Slow Down* by Saitō) and stopped in WC only to find this on the walls — « le grondement de la bataille » as Foucault wrote in Discipline and Punish

About to give last seminar of 2024 at EHESS Campus Condorcet in northern Paris (St. Denis) far far away from the states (seminar on *Slow Down* by Saitō) and stopped in WC only to find this on the walls — « le grondement de la bataille » as Foucault wrote in Discipline and Punish
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A first. Despite the many setbacks, and yes there are many, the death penalty will be abolished throughout the USA eventually. One step forward today: President Biden commutes the federal death sentences of 37 people and reaffirms his opposition. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

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🇺🇸"#Carter's presidency was based on negotiating solutions and cooperation. And that's the sharpest difference from what we have today." 👉 Columbia University & EHESS's Bernard E. Harcourt on 1979 Iranian hostage crisis ➡️Your reactions on #F24Debate

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Nietzsche's "Use & Disadvantage of History for Life" updated, so to speak, by Samuel Moyn 🔭 in this wonderful review essay The Nation. Read this, re-read the Nietzsche, & then Foucault's seminar on it, recently published in a volume edited by Bernard E. Harcourt. A think kit.

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Nancy Fraser, Cinzia Arruzza & Tithi Bhattacharya join us tomorrow Jan 22 at Marx 6/13 Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. I just posted long intro: the1313.law.columbia.edu/2025/01/21/ber…. Info: marx1313.law.columbia.edu/6-13/ Please join me at Bernard E. Harcourt.bsky.social Please join me at Bernard E. Harcourt.bsky.social

Nancy Fraser, Cinzia Arruzza &amp; Tithi Bhattacharya join us tomorrow Jan 22 at Marx 6/13 <a href="/ColumbiaCCCT/">Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought</a>. I just posted long intro: the1313.law.columbia.edu/2025/01/21/ber…. Info: marx1313.law.columbia.edu/6-13/ 

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Join us next week for Marx 7/13 with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought for a discussion of *Class Struggles in France*, Du Bois, and political struggles today! Info and RSVP: marx1313.law.columbia.edu/7-13/ NB: Please join me at Bernard E. Harcourt.bsky.social !!!!

Join us next week for Marx 7/13 with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak <a href="/ColumbiaCCCT/">Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought</a> for a discussion of *Class Struggles in France*, Du Bois, and political struggles today! Info and RSVP: marx1313.law.columbia.edu/7-13/

NB: Please join me at <a href="/bernardharcourt/">Bernard E. Harcourt</a>.bsky.social !!!!
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Intense debate with Nancy Fraser at Marx 6/13! Kohei Saito joined as well, and Bruno Bosteels, for rich conversation. The seminar recording is available here: youtube.com/live/KxVnCaudZ… NB: Please join me over at BlueSky at Bernard E. Harcourt.bsky.social !!!!

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Just posted the long-form intro to Gayatri Spivak on Marx and Du Bois for seminar Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought tomorrow, Marx 7/13 on Marx's Class struggles in France 1848-1850 and Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880. Video here: youtu.be/GXQi4J5PvWg?si… Join us tomorrow!

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Today's executive order. Right when number of persons imprisoned at Guantanamo reached an all-time low of 15... This is the very definition of the #Counterrevolution: turning migrants into the internal enemy. nypost.com/2025/01/29/us-… Please join me at Bernard E. Harcourt.bsky.social

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“In the following chapter, Karl Marx will be criticized.” — Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition. Join us at Marx 13/13 on Wed. Feb. 19 at 6:15pm for a keynote by Seyla Benhabib Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought.bsky.social on Arendt's reading of Marx. Info here marx1313.law.columbia.edu/seyla-benhabib…

“In the following chapter, Karl Marx will be criticized.”
— Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition.

Join us at Marx 13/13 on Wed. Feb. 19 at 6:15pm for a keynote by Seyla Benhabib <a href="/columbiaccct/">Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought</a>.bsky.social on Arendt's reading of Marx. Info here marx1313.law.columbia.edu/seyla-benhabib…
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UPDATE: Alabama nitrogen hypoxia method of execution litigation: the federal judge just allowed us to proceed (denying AL attorney general's motion to dismiss) on our challenge to nitrogen gas method of execution. A good day, given Louisiana. Order here: cccct.law.columbia.edu/sites/cccct.la…

UPDATE: Alabama nitrogen hypoxia method of execution litigation: the federal judge just allowed us to proceed (denying AL attorney general's motion to dismiss) on our challenge to nitrogen gas method of execution. A good day, given Louisiana. Order here: cccct.law.columbia.edu/sites/cccct.la…