@bernardharcourt.bsky.social
Professor of law and political theory at Columbia University and the EHESS in Paris. Death penalty defense counsel and author of *Critique & Praxis* (2020), *Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory* (2023), and *The Counterrevolution* (2018).
Rashid Khalidi is a brilliant critical theorist and historian, and an exceptional colleague and friend at Columbia. His course this summer @nssrnews.bsky.social at the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry was so important to our students. This is a great loss: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
01.08.2025 14:39 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
UPDATE on my Alabama death penalty client David Wilson: Alabama just filed a 166-page Answer to our 493-page First Amended Petition for Habeas Corpus: cccct.law.columbia.edu/sites/cccct..... I am now writing a lengthy Reply. More information on David's case at: cccct.law.columbia.edu/content/davi...
31.07.2025 22:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Indeed my dear Corentin, he is an example for us all…
28.07.2025 19:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🇺🇸 "L’idée très américaine qu’on est libre quand on peut faire ou dire ce qu’on veut est une illusion".
Professeur à Columbia et avocat de condamnés à mort, @bernardharcourt.bsky.social lance la série d'été de La Croix sur la liberté. Merci à lui pour son temps !
www.la-croix.com/internationa...
This is terrible news. I feel lucky I got to know him. I was amazed that he would attend your seminars on Foucault along with litigating anti-terror policies and helping out protesters pro bono. I hope his generosity, wit and passion will inspire many. Thank you, Tom...
28.07.2025 18:30 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Devastated. Now headed to Chicago for the service at Old Saint Patrick’s for the passionate, inspiring, moral exemplar, critical theorist and theologian, comrade in arms, and advocate for the damned, Tom Durkin. The New York Times fittingly printed his tribute yesterday in their pages.
28.07.2025 15:00 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Sad to see that the troubles in higher education are extending to my old haunt UChicago.
chicagomaroon.com/48215/news/u...
Marianne Hirsch is a brilliant critical theorist and inspiring colleague. A pillar of our critical community here at Columbia.
apnews.com/article/colu...
Excellent nuanced analysis of the recent survey data on student sentiment on campus at Columbia:
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
Thanks Tim and be well, b.
25.07.2025 13:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Heartbroken to learn that Thomas Durkin, who Bernard and I co-counseled with on several Line 3 protester cases, has died 💔
24.07.2025 21:42 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Farewell to a comrade-in-arms, a fierce advocate, a fellow critical philosopher, a man of faith and ethics: Thomas Anthony Durkin. Your life and your struggles will guide us now. May we live up to them and to your memory. Farewell.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/u...
I've been thinking all morning about the birth of Vichy France. I should reread our brilliant Columbia University colleague Robert O. Paxton's landmark book, "Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order," published by Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social | cup.columbia.edu/book/vichy-f...
24.07.2025 18:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Die August-Ausgabe der »Blätter« liegt auf einem Tisch.
Die August-»Blätter« sind da!
Mit Beiträgen von: @yvesvenedey.de, @anjakrueger.bsky.social, @trittin.de, @crimewatch.bsky.social, @dfeher.bsky.social, @pawelkarolewski.bsky.social, @bernardharcourt.bsky.social, @antjeschrupp.bsky.social u.v.a.
www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...
Intense debate on the state of American democracy on
@franceculture.fr with @matteocaranta.bsky.social
@eleonorabottini.bsky.social and Lumir Lapray: "Jusqu'à quand pourra-t-on parler de la démocratie en Amérique ?" www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur... @ehess.fr @lab-iris.bsky.social
My essay on Trump's second term just published in German at the Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik: "Mit einer Flut von Präsidialdekreten hat Präsident Donald Trump die Axt an den US-amerikanischen Regierungsapparat und die globale Ordnung gelegt":
www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...
🧐 Jusqu'à quand pourra-t-on parler de la démocratie en Amérique ?
Rendez-vous ce soir à 18 h 15 ce soir en présence @bernardharcourt.bsky.social, @eleonorabottini.bsky.social et Lumir Lapray.
(c) Crédit Photo : Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP
Jusqu'à quand pourra-t-on parler de la démocratie en Amérique ? Les contre-pouvoirs résistent-ils suffisamment à ces attaques répétées ?
👉 Rendez-vous ce soir à 18h15 pour en parler avec @bernardharcourt.bsky.social, @eleonorabottini.bsky.social et Lumir Lapray.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
"Il n’y a qu’en pensant la liberté dans
toute sa complexité qu’on y parviendra": Merci 🙏 pour la belle conversation avec Alexis Buisson @la-croix.com Hebdo 👇
Rethinking liberty in these dark times, as something that we need to construct together. Lengthy interview (in French) with @la-croix.com's Alexis Buisson on all the labor that liberty calls for. Read here l.la-croix.com/FSA |
www.la-croix.com/internationa... @ehess.fr @lab-iris.bsky.social
NY state is controlled by Democrats who could preempt this stupid law, if they wanted to
14.07.2025 02:04 — 👍 18 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Margin Notes: A Journal of Critical Theory Volume One Out Now Read at CTWG.website.io
NEW ON THE CTWG SITE
MARGIN NOTES: A JOURNAL OF CRITICAL THEORY
V1: KERNELS OF EARLY CRITICAL THEORY
Critical Theory is only right in a wrong world.
Link: ctwgwebsite.github.io/projects/1_p...
Our friend and colleague, Nascimento Blair, former JIE Scholar @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, was detained by ICE and deported to Jamaica in late February 2025. He was one of the first to be expelled. He tells his story powerfully in his own words: justiceineducation.columbia.edu/when-is-a-cr...
11.07.2025 14:08 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Totalitarianism or counterrevolution? On Hannah Arendt's 1951 book on *The Origins and Elements of Totalitarianism* and how it reads today... Terrific interview with the brilliant journalist Sarah Heinzmann at Radio Bern RaBe, Switzerland (in German) 🙏 Online here: rabe.ch/beitrag/04-0...
08.07.2025 13:14 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One more classic step in the modern counterrevolution: New interview in French review Esprit (esprit.presse.fr) on the repression of the protests in Los Angeles. Main point: the political struggle is the grey area of law. Read here: esprit.presse.fr/actualites/b... @ehess.fr @lab-iris.bsky.social
01.07.2025 16:16 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
We need to build alliances across countries. Just had a great visit and conversation with Pouria Amirshahi of the French National Assembly, co-founder of the new "Digue" coalition against rising fascism. More about the Digue here: www.liberation.fr/politique/a-... Follow them on Insta at ladigue_
28.06.2025 15:52 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A death row inmate has standing to bring a §1983 claim challenging a state's post-conviction DNA testing procedures under the Due Process Clause. #SCOTUS opinion 6/26 written by Justice Sotomayor in Texas case involving Ruben Gutierrez. Opinion at this link here: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
27.06.2025 14:55 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Excellent and important new book review at @fabula-lht.bsky.social (in French) of Michel Foucault's "Nietzsche," the recent book of Foucault's lectures, conferences, and manuscripts on Nietzsche published by @editionsduseuil.bsky.social. The shadows of Nietzsche: www.fabula.org/revue/docume...
21.06.2025 14:31 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The Republican attack on African Americans and this country’s greatest strength of diversity. I hope this video embeds: www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol... Article in open access is here, gift article from The New York Times. You can read for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...
21.06.2025 13:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil is released from detention and briefly addresses media before catching a flight back to New York. This occurs after a federal judge concludes that no basis exists for him to be retained and orders his release.
20.06.2025 23:52 — 👍 42 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
