James Ryan

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Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Al-Mayadeen says that the deal is done and Hamas and other factions have agreed.

Are we all living in secret mall apartments?

Congrats Hrag, Hakim, and hyperallergic!!

The WH wanting things to happen and the WH having the guts to do what they need to make it happen is… not clear in so many cases this far.

When you actually explain the scale of the genocide of indigenous Americans it hits students real hard. Then you give them Las Casas — for many of them the oldest non-scriptural text they’ve ever tried to read — and the light bulbs just start popping.

A point I am emphasizing to my World History since 1500 students constantly and from day one.

Yes, New College is incredibly inefficient but it also dropped 60(!) spots on the US News & World Report rankings. Not easy!
Everytime Chris Rufo is introduced as an impt voice in higher ed, remember that the one time he had a hand in running an institution has been a disaster.
Competence matters.

None to me, directly.

The Golden Age of Transnational Repression | Journal of Democracy Authoritarian regimes are targeting exiles and diaspora communities in more places than ever before. Activists, journalists, and regular people living abroad must watch their backs…

New today: my essay in @jodemocracy.bsky.social on The Golden Age of Transnational Repression: www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the...

Tariq Dana does a fantastic job showing how the Abraham Accords provided autocratic governments more tools to repress their people, and new customers for the industries now trained on the genocide in Gaza.

A hand drawn cartoon in the style of the New Yorker showing five people in a business meeting next to a big window out on the city. There is a chart with a downward sloping graph. The caption reads “Have we considered localizing the intifada?”

The writing is gorgeous, and the cartoons are so, so cutting.

House Arab I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

Missed this when it came out, but man, what an essay. Ismail Ibrahim on his experience as the only Arab doing fact checking at the New Yorker after 10/7. bidoun.org/articles/hou...

Don’t sell yourself so short. The smart ones know you go to Baku for the real money.

Models, in terms of how administrations look and are meant to work, perhaps, but the logic underpinning all this is not so distant. I think we proclaim modernization theory-style colonial mindsets dead at our peril.

Of course true, and nevertheless they worked harder at the pretensions than these doofuses. Just goes to show how unserious this all is.

The reason this proposal is so fake is that it not only misapprehends Palestinian political movements and demands for sovereignty but it misapprehends Israeli ones, too.

I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve privately and publicly heard neocon pontificators suggest “turn Gaza into the Singapore of the Med!” idea. What’s insane is not only is that now the official position of the Trump admin, but it is a relatively moderate position vis-a-vis Israel.

Israel's Strike on Qatar: What Actually Happened? On September 9, 2025, Israel struck a residential compound in Doha, Qatar, killing six people.

Now that the dust has settled on Israel's strike on Qatar, I wanted to discuss some of the oddities of the story that has become the mainstream narrative- the alleged firing of missiles from over the Red Sea. I'm not saying that didn't happen, just that it's a bit weird. That and more here:

I wasn't making it up:

US won't sell F110 w/out the F-16 and cannot sell F-110 to SSB w/out CAATSA being resolved. Can't resolve CAATSA w/out S-400 compromise. Tr also cannot "rejoin" the F-35 consortium. It can purchase F-35 but only w/ compromise on S-400. www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-...

To put a finer point on the Marx analogy — if the mandate was a tragedy that begat bloody competition between nationalist parties and organizations in Palestine, the farce, as in 1848, may produce something much more loathsome and terrible.

You absolutely do not have to hand one to the British Mandate, but they certainly tried a lot harder than this to understand the people they were ruling and, pretended they cared about self-rule a lot harder than this.

First time tragedy, second time farce and so on…

I was only introduced to this during the short time I worked at a think tank, but among the worst euphemisms of the modern age is the use of the word “kinetic” to describe military campaigns. Makes it sound like you’re 5 years old playing with toys in your bedroom, not executing a genocide.

With Pete Davidson getting a big check to do the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the Saudis are finally paying reparations for 9/11.

And jokes like that aren’t allowed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

For all its flaws, the PNC was an actually functioning transnational body of accountable authorities that could credibly speak on the behalf of Palestinians around the world. The mere thought that the PA, Hamas, or any other such body today could do that is laughable.

Arguably it produced less than nothing — Palestinian civil society, insofar as there is or was a body or network that was accountable to Palestinians as constituents, is arguably more degraded and disconnected that it was prior to Oslo being negotiated.

Yeah I don’t take issue with your point here but just to say it probably didn’t take much to convince him to run…