Dennis Hogan

Our Right to Our Union: Graduate Student Workers Under Threat - Public Books University leaders may make a show of opposing Trump when funding is under threat, but they will happily align themselves with him in confronting graduate student workers.

New at PB: As part of a series exploring higher ed under Trump, curated by Dennis M. Hogan (@dennismhogan.bsky.social), Jasper Cattell explores a path forward for labor unions across the country: union collaboration and change in state law.

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

New at PB: As part of a series exploring higher ed under Trump, curated by Dennis M. Hogan (@dennismhogan.bsky.social), Christopher Newfield tells us how waiting out Trump will inevitably fail. Instead, we must build a new cultural order.

Our Right to Our Union: Graduate Student Workers Under Threat - Public Books University leaders may make a show of opposing Trump when funding is under threat, but they will happily align themselves with him in confronting graduate student workers.

And from @gradlabororg.bsky.social Political Director Jasper Cattell, a story of how AFT 6516 (Brown University) united with the @riaflcio.bsky.social to pass legislation that protects Rhode Island grad workers rights to organize and bargain collectively.

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

From @cnewf.bsky.social , here’s a piece arguing for democratic control over the actual mechanisms of university business—with suggestions for how to start building.

Toward the Next American University: A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Higher Ed - Public Books The path higher education was on before Trump’s reelection was neither certain nor stable. There is not much to go back to now.

As Higher Education editor at @publicbooks.bsky.social, I asked experts—thinkers, scholars, teachers, organizers—for short essays outlining one positive change we can work towards in higher ed, no matter who occupies the White House. Our roundtable series begins publishing today. My intro here:

Toward the Next American University: A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Higher Ed - Public Books The path higher education was on before Trump’s reelection was neither certain nor stable. There is not much to go back to now.

New at PB: Higher Ed section editor @dennismhogan.bsky.social introduces a series on the challenges faced in higher ed under Trump 2.0—and concrete, achievable, and actionable ways to fix them.

Menswear and the World System w/ Derek Guy Featuring Derek Guy on the politics, history, economics, and style of Western menswear. Guest hosted by Dennis M. Hogan.

And if you’re more of a pod person, you can find the episode here: www.thedigradio.com/podcast/mens...

The Economic, Political, and Cultural History of Menswear Menswear expert Derek Guy talks to Jacobin about where Western men’s clothing traditions came from, how they have evolved, and how they're being continually reinterpreted.

Earlier this year I interviewed Derek Guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social on @thedigradio.bsky.social. We covered the rise of the bourgeoisie, crimes of the British empire (fashion & otherwise), & the social meaning of clothes. The transcript is now at @jacobinmag.bsky.social: jacobin.com/2025/09/mens...

The Economic, Political, and Cultural History of Menswear Menswear expert Derek Guy talks to Jacobin about where Western men’s clothing traditions came from, how they have evolved, and how they're being continually reinterpreted.

Menswear expert Derek Guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) talks to Jacobin about where Western men’s clothing traditions came from, how they have evolved, and how they're being continually reinterpreted.

Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...

Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.

“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”

By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Perfect for bedtime

I’ve got an essay in the fantastic new volume University Keywords, edited by @andyhines.bsky.social! And today is publication day!!!

University Keywords How American universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles.University Keywords gathers, contextualizes, and develops original unders...

The point of this book is to have an immediate place to turn to the brilliant insight and analysis of scholars and organizers who have been thinking critically about the US university for decades .

Please get a copy, order it for your library, share it with students, and read with comrades.

I got one over the summer because it was on fb marketplace for less than a new pressure cooker. I’m basically doing instant pot dal for every meal now and I am never going back!!!

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Opinion | Trump Is Wiping Out Unions. Why Are They So Quiet?

There’s a great deal that’s right in this essay. However I would find the messenger a lot more credible if Erik Loomis hadn’t spent the last decade viciously attacking the same leftists and socialists desperately trying to build a fighting labor movement. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Rudikoff Prize The Sonya Rudikoff Award for the best first book in Victorian Studies was established by the Robert Gutman family in honor of Mr. Gutman’s late wife. Sonya Rudikoff was an active member of th…

Did you publish your first book in Victorian studies in 2024? If so, submit it for consideration for the Rudikoff Prize. More information here: nvsa.org/rudikoff-pri...

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I’m very excited to share that my monograph, The Transit Zones, on literature, culture, and the geopolitics of interoceanic transit in nineteenth-century Central America, is now under contract at @oxfordunipress.bsky.social !

It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

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They relied on a eugenics proponent for this. "Cremieux" is Jordan Lasker.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp. This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.

I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.

A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ivana Bacik holds up meme of bald baby JD Vance in the Dáil Bacik said the meme was “amusing” and that the US clampdown on visa’s is “authoritarian”.

A meme of US Vice President JD Vance depicted as a baby was held up in the Dáil today by Labour leader Ivana Bacik.

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I saw another interview w Lavinglia and what emerged clearly is how drunk software engineers are on efficiency & optimization that they imagine them to be transferable concepts that can easily be ported into labor, service, and knowledge sectors in which they have no experience.

Mother Pug’s a light in the darkness

Ok those are the ones that jump out at me for now. I’ll think a bit more about some of the other spots!