Pablo Piccato
@ppiccato.bsky.social
Historian of Mexico, from poetry to crime. Recent books:
Historia mínima de la violencia en México; A History of Infamy: Crime Truth and Justice in Mexico.
Political science
38%
Sociology
23%
Pablo Piccato: “El sistema de seguridad y justicia que se formó con el PRI está diseñado para no funcionar bien”
El académico acaba de publicar ‘Historia Mínima de la Violencia en México’, un repaso a la constelación de conflictos armados que ha vivido México desde la Revolución y un intento de explicar el prese...
elpais.com
Mi entrevista en El País elpais.com/mexico/2025-...
www.memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar
Un artículo sobre los exiliados radicales bajo la dictadura basado en las cartas y las publicaciones de mi padre www.memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/art_revistas...
Josh Moody
@byjoshmoody.bsky.social
· Oct 10
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
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MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
Reposted by Juan Cole, Pablo Piccato
Manan Ahmed
@sepoy.bsky.social
· Oct 1
Short Course on Palestine Class 1: The Origins of The Hundred Years War
YouTube video by The People's Forum NYC
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I am honored to be a colleague (and student) of Rashid Khalidi and his public lectures on Palestine at The People's Forum have started. Please learn!
Reposted by Paulo Drinot
Pablo Piccato
@ppiccato.bsky.social
· Sep 25
A Brief History of Violence in Mexico
This session will discuss A Brief History of Violence in Mexico by Pablo Piccato (Columbia University).
www.sas.ac.uk
Next October 30, I will be discussing A Brief History of Violence in Mexico with my friends Thomas Rath, Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Paulo Drinot and Ben Smith www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Pablo Piccato
@ppiccato.bsky.social
· Sep 25
The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel
In the early years, American Jewish support for Israel was a fraught issue. The turning point was the six-day war of 1967, which solidified a strength of feeling that has only recently begun to fract...
www.theguardian.com
From Columbia’s Mark Mazower: www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
Pablo Piccato
@ppiccato.bsky.social
· Sep 18
Adobe Acrobat
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:71da01b6-3bc4-4a4a-9fce-bd90ec637e5f
An amicus brief has been filed on behalf of Khalid Mahmood arguing against the characterization of Columbia University antisemitic institution. See the document: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
Reposted by Pablo Piccato
Remember Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil who was abducted and detained for his pro-Palestinian speech?
His story is a prime example of what can happen when a school abandons its students to the whim of the government.
His story is a prime example of what can happen when a school abandons its students to the whim of the government.
Pablo Piccato
@ppiccato.bsky.social
· Sep 12
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
www.theguardian.com
a “well-known practice from the McCarthy Era” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pablo Piccato
@ppiccato.bsky.social
· Sep 10
Disgruntled NYT journalist to ‘anti-woke’ power grab: how far can Bari Weiss go?
After leaving the New York Times, she turned her Substack into an unshakable pro-Israel voice. Now as Paramount eyes acquisition of her company, Weiss is poised to become Trump’s ally among media elit...
www.theguardian.com
“Weiss’s publication, in short, was the preferred vehicle for conveying information from Columbia insiders who wanted to purge all criticism of Israel from the university to Trump administration officials who were using … financial pressure to help them do … that” www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
Reposted by Pablo Piccato
Brian DeLay
@briandelay.bsky.social
· Sep 10
Professors want to leave Texas because of tense political climate, survey says
Professors’ concerns included the state’s DEI ban and new limits to faculty influence at colleges and universities.
www.texastribune.org
Together, Texans built one of the finest systems of higher education in the world. Ideologues and opportunists are tearing it down. It is a despicable act of generational vandalism that will hurt all Texans, their children, their grandchildren, and their great-grandchildren.
Pablo Piccato
@ppiccato.bsky.social
· Aug 24
How to save the American university
As Trump threatens funding and public trust plummets, US schools are in the fight of a lifetime. This is how they can survive – with their souls intact
www.theguardian.com
Correct on the banal pledges of neutrality by real-estate-operations-with-tax-breaks administrators, but still relying on the simplistic taxonomy of “liberals” vs “conservatives” in the faculty. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Pablo Piccato
@ppiccato.bsky.social
· Aug 18
The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing
By adopting an overly broad and controversial definition of antisemitism, the university is putting both academic freedom and its Jewish students at risk.
www.newyorker.com
“To equate the expression of such views with antisemitism is not only wrong; as Judt warned, it also risks putting Jewish students in greater danger.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Reposted by Pablo Piccato
My new book ‘Hispanic Technocracy: From Fascism to Catholic Authoritarianism in Spain, Argentina, and
Chile' with @CambridgeUP is out now! cambridge.org/9781009603041
Chile' with @CambridgeUP is out now! cambridge.org/9781009603041
Pablo Piccato
@ppiccato.bsky.social
· Aug 11
The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities
www.nytimes.com
The personal narrative is more interesting than the authoritarian thinking, of course. “The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
Pablo Piccato
@ppiccato.bsky.social
· Aug 1
Una conversación sobre mi libro con Sara Hidalgo y Sergio Aguayo
Pablo Piccato
@ppiccato.bsky.social
· Aug 1
“Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing”
Columbia University’s agreement with the Trump administration is a disaster for academic freedom, freedom of speech, & the independence of American higher education. Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat.
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Pablo Piccato
@ppiccato.bsky.social
· Jul 24
"The agreement is also the first to require a university to fork over money to the government as a condition of receiving money from the government, bringing a new brand of pay-to-play into the world of scientific and medical research."
From our very thoughtful law school colleague, David Pozen, a first take on the Columbia deal.
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
"No established legal process was followed for the Columbia agreement; no genuine legal dispute was resolved."
Pablo Piccato
@ppiccato.bsky.social
· Jul 24
"The agreement is also the first to require a university to fork over money to the government as a condition of receiving money from the government, bringing a new brand of pay-to-play into the world of scientific and medical research."
From our very thoughtful law school colleague, David Pozen, a first take on the Columbia deal.
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
"another unprecedented feature of the situation ... that might ... prove the most consequential of all: the way in which the federal government is seeking to reshape the internal operations of universities not through generally applicable directives, but rather through a series of bilateral “deals”"
Pablo Piccato
@ppiccato.bsky.social
· Jul 24
From our very thoughtful law school colleague, David Pozen, a first take on the Columbia deal.
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
Balkinization: Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Ed
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
"The agreement is also the first to require a university to fork over money to the government as a condition of receiving money from the government, bringing a new brand of pay-to-play into the world of scientific and medical research."