Please share the CFP for: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton Marcy Norton (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti @saramiglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June John Rylands Research Institute and Library Manchester. Further details: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Please share the CFP for: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Keynotes are Marcy Norton Marcy Norton (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti @saramiglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June John Rylands Research Institute and Library Manchester. Further details: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Looking forward to this!

Join us for a special CLALS Internal Speaker talk on Jan 17 at 12PM as Marcy Norton (Penn History) presents her new book The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 (Harvard University Press). RSVP at bit.ly/3Cb59kR

Tomorrow! Zoom & in person

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“When they advocate for market-making as their political vision, today’s Democrats sound like nothing so much as used car salesmen: they promise discounts, rebates, credits, low ARPs.” —Brent Cebul on Bidenomics go.nybooks.com/4g2sVNR

Wow. Caroline Kennedy breaks her silence on RFK Jr in a message to Senators: “We grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator. He enjoyed showing off by putting baby chickens & mice in a blender to feed to his hawks.”

I asked an immigration attorney I trust and have had some dealings with whether the Mahmoud Khalil case represents scary territory. He said yes, it does.

Returning to X to shine a light on what the Alien Enemies Act looks like IRL. Our ImmDef client fled Venezuela last year & came to US to seek asylum. He has a strong claim. He was detained at entry because ICE alleged his tattoos are gang related. They are absolutely not. 🧵

An hour after Mohsen Mahdawi’s arrest, an Israeli Columbia student messaged me. More followed. Though he led the encampment, they say he spent past months in dialogue with Jews & Israelis—even holding joint closed-door meetings with admins Haaretz.com haaretz.com/us-news/2025-0…

Columbia's Philosophy Department, where Mohsen Mahdawi is a student, has posted a statement about his detention on their website:

This is what fascism looks like:   Attorney General Bondi threatening judges she claims are not cooperating with Trump immigration policies and saying “we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you.”

Let’s be clear. Trump's arrest of Judge Dugan in Milwaukee has nothing to do with immigration. This latest attack is about one thing: unchecked power. It is time for my colleagues in the Republican Party to stand up to his growing authoritarianism.

These are the four pieces for which I won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. All published in 2024. Blessings to the souls of 31 members of my family who were killed in one air strike in 2023. Blessings to the souls of my four first cousins, two of whom were killed with their

“Even cautious voices have changed. Israeli scholar Shmuel Lederman opposed the genocide label—until he saw the ICJ ruling ignored, the Rafah crossing sealed, and credible estimates of over 100,000 deaths. Now he says: this is genocide.”

The situation in the Gaza Strip is increasingly worrying and painful. I renew my heartfelt appeal to allow the entry of dignified humanitarian aid and to bring an end to the hostilities, whose heart-rending price is borne by children, the elderly, and the sick.

Gaza is the greatest Jewish spiritual crisis since the Nazi Holocaust peterbeinart.substack.com/p/desecrating-…

“Kamala will have us in war in 6 months.” -Donald Trump He did it in 5..🤦‍♂️