Dennis Hogan

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A photo of workers at Individualized Shirts, a shirt factory in New Jersey. Each person has their fist in the air as a sign of solidarity. There's a sign behind them with photos and the words: "Fair Contract Now."

Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵

what's the best thing I can read to understand the whole deal with medieval allegory?

If you're around Cambridge/Harvard tomorrow, I'm teaming up with Panamanian attorney/Harvard fellow David Mizrachi to give a talk on the history of the Panama Canal at the Kennedy School. Despite the official-looking poster it will be a very informal event! www.hks.harvard.edu/events/panam...

everyone is talking about getting copies of University Keywords (or other JHU Press books) for all their friends, students, and comrades for the holidays, especially when it is 40% off with the code HHOL25.

Just ordered! At $20.97 this works out to LESS THAN $1 AN ESSAY for, e.g. @asheeshksi.bsky.social on "Board of Trustees"; @cnewf.bsky.social on "Degree"; @dennismhogan.bsky.social on "Endowment": & (one I read in draft) @andyhines.bsky.social, @kaibosworth.bsky.social et al on "Sustainability" 💥

I think it’s possible to do even more to make the style AND substance of the democratic party reflect the culture and proclivities of educated professionals, its last loyal stalwarts. Eventually we can make party so small it fits into one conference room

Opinion | Trump Wants an Easy Win in Venezuela. He Won’t Get One.

Donald Trump wants regime change in Venezuela. The last time the US invaded a Latin American country was in Panama, in 1989, killing hundreds and displacing thousands. Even afterwards, Panama was destabilized. In today’s NYT, I argue an invasion of Venezuela would be far worse.

Opinion | Trump Wants an Easy Win in Venezuela. He Won’t Get One.

Donald Trump wants regime change in Venezuela. The last time the US invaded a Latin American country was in Panama, in 1989, killing hundreds and displacing thousands. Even afterwards, Panama was destabilized. In today’s NYT, I argue an invasion of Venezuela would be far worse.

How to Protect Your Right to Culture The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.

Culture might seem a less consequential right than free assembly+ its infringement makes less spectacular news than repressive violence. But the repeal of the right to culture is grave.

honored to be with @isanchezprado.bsky.social in @hyperallergic.com today!

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Good morning! My comrade @annakornbluh.bsky.social and I published today in Hyperallrgic ean op-ed about the gutting of our right to culture and the ways to defend and fight back. Link below!

this is, in fact, what's happening

These are all fantastic pieces, and I'm grateful for the hard work our contributors put into them. Please read--and if you ever have an idea for an essay, book review, interview, or forum on higher ed, please get in touch with me. dennis dot m dot hogan at gmail dot com. I'm always reading pitches!

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

And from @annaeclark.bsky.social, on the urgency of coordinating across higher and secondary education to train students in the skills they really need to succeed as readers, writers, and thinkers:

To Save Public Higher Ed, Stop Revering California’s Tiered System - Public Books Open admissions to all state-funded public universities could break the competitive concentration of prestige, increase affordability through more egalitarian institutional funding, and restore Americ...

From Steph Reist, on the tiered California public university system that still gatekeeps quality, four-year higher ed even while promising educational access:

This Is Not a Choice—It Is a Charge: How HBCUs Must Embrace Black Radical Love & Empower Queer and Trans* Students - Public Books This essay calls in HBCUs to recommit to Black queer and trans* inclusion.

From Jarrel T. Johnson, on the ways that HBCUS--which have become a refuge for some Black students fleeing racist attacks on Higher ed--can better support queer and trans students:

To Save Higher Ed, Seek Our Black and Hispanic Men - Public Books Policymakers and institutional leaders seeking to preserve higher education’s functionality should consider the enrollment and completion rates of Black and Hispanic men.

From Christian Collins, on recruiting and retaining Black and Hispanic men as a way to counter demographic declines in enrollment:

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.

From Jasper Cattell, on state-level political action as a remedy for federal attacks on academic workers rights: www.publicbooks.org/our-right-to...

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

From @cnewf.bsky.social, on the need to start taking the levers of university power back: www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

Last week, Public Books published a roundtable that we put together on higher ed under Trump. Six contributors, six essays, six ideas for what those of us in higher education can do now to make the world a little better, a little saner, and a little safer. Read the series here (my intro below):

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

"the solution is still the one that can succeed: to build a new cultural order, a new civilization. To do so, academics must embrace an unusual new role: as knowledge workers, they must seize the means of knowledge production."

www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

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

Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."

Interesting! Thanks!

but would anyone in the 18th century have thought of what they were up to as a "project", or is that a scholarly imposition? (Not quibbling with the term's usefulness--I employ it myself often!)

yes that's true. I'm thinking of how the term in spanish for "draft legislation" is "proyecto de ley." I wonder if there's some sort of calque that happened

I ask because in particular I suspect that no one centrally involved in a historical project would use that precise term to describe what it is they think they're doing. Or would they?

Maybe a silly question but when did "project" become the normative term for describing a (baggy?) sociohistorical process initiated and advanced by distinct actors with distinct goals (ie national project, racial project, settler colonial project, and so on)?

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

New at PB: As part of a series exploring higher ed under Trump, curated by @dennismhogan.bsky.social, @annaeclark.bsky.social discusses the way the Common Core failed us—and opened doors for Trump’s direct attack on academic freedom and funding sources.

Must-read!!