Anne Kornhauser
@akornhauser.bsky.social
Dept. chair.😱 U.S. #historian -intellectual, legal, political. Book: *Debating the American State...* Now: U.S. democracy & the world. Former legal journalist. NYC
INFLATION INFLATION INFLATION
Just sayin.’ If I were a Democratic politician….
What are you waiting for? The numbers tell the story here.
Just sayin.’ If I were a Democratic politician….
What are you waiting for? The numbers tell the story here.
August 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
INFLATION INFLATION INFLATION
Just sayin.’ If I were a Democratic politician….
What are you waiting for? The numbers tell the story here.
Just sayin.’ If I were a Democratic politician….
What are you waiting for? The numbers tell the story here.
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Okay this is worse than I thought. A large # of academic press books (incld. a textbook I use in class) have been moved to a platform called Ebook Central. It's like Kindle paired w/ AI. No footnotes. No page #s No facsimile PDFs are available. I just wrote a lengthy complaint to my library. Sigh.
AI rant of the day. My library is using a new ebook platform for Leon Litwack's book "Trouble in Mind." You can no longer see page numbers or footnotes. And there is a running AI summary of the book next to the text. It's USELESS now.
August 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Okay this is worse than I thought. A large # of academic press books (incld. a textbook I use in class) have been moved to a platform called Ebook Central. It's like Kindle paired w/ AI. No footnotes. No page #s No facsimile PDFs are available. I just wrote a lengthy complaint to my library. Sigh.
Since we’re banning words these days, I’d like to ban the phrase “less lethal.”
June 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Since we’re banning words these days, I’d like to ban the phrase “less lethal.”
Just wow.
A cool thing I saw today at Patuxent North Tract (may it continue being open forever): a juvenile male Spangled Skimmer #dragonfly
This one looks almost like a female, with pale stripes along the abdomen; but the blue center of the abdomen and the appendages show that it's male
#invertebrates
This one looks almost like a female, with pale stripes along the abdomen; but the blue center of the abdomen and the appendages show that it's male
#invertebrates
May 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Just wow.
Was just in a meeting about accreditation when someone had to take a phone call from a federal agency about a grant termination. The Ivies are getting all the attention but this is going on everywhere and it is killing higher education! Let’s try to keep the entire higher ed landscape in mind.
May 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Was just in a meeting about accreditation when someone had to take a phone call from a federal agency about a grant termination. The Ivies are getting all the attention but this is going on everywhere and it is killing higher education! Let’s try to keep the entire higher ed landscape in mind.
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This, from @joshtpm.bsky.social, engages on many of the right questions. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...
What Are Universities Supposed to Do?
I’ve heard from a number of you in response to my posts...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This, from @joshtpm.bsky.social, engages on many of the right questions. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...
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And I mean that in two ways.
1. Seemingly futile acts of opposition can grow into movements that change history.
2. A record of opposition is what enables historians to write about a past where nothing was inevitable, different outcomes were imagined, the future was contested.
1. Seemingly futile acts of opposition can grow into movements that change history.
2. A record of opposition is what enables historians to write about a past where nothing was inevitable, different outcomes were imagined, the future was contested.
March 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
And I mean that in two ways.
1. Seemingly futile acts of opposition can grow into movements that change history.
2. A record of opposition is what enables historians to write about a past where nothing was inevitable, different outcomes were imagined, the future was contested.
1. Seemingly futile acts of opposition can grow into movements that change history.
2. A record of opposition is what enables historians to write about a past where nothing was inevitable, different outcomes were imagined, the future was contested.
Bye bye WaPo subscription.
February 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Bye bye WaPo subscription.
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The Diggins Memorial Lecture coming up historyprogram.commons.gc.cuny.edu/3-5-what-is-...
3/5- “What is the Intellectual History of Care?” - The Ph.D. Program in History
The Ph.D. Program in History at the CUNY Graduate Center Presents… The John Patrick Diggins Memorial Lecture Sarah Knott
historyprogram.commons.gc.cuny.edu
February 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Diggins Memorial Lecture coming up historyprogram.commons.gc.cuny.edu/3-5-what-is-...
My zone (academia—in particular, the humanities) has been flooded. Now, what??? 😳
February 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
My zone (academia—in particular, the humanities) has been flooded. Now, what??? 😳
Not important (in the scheme of things), but… REALLY?! After self-parody comes… ???
February 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Not important (in the scheme of things), but… REALLY?! After self-parody comes… ???
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This is what local news orgs should be doing now:
"In 2024, the Univ. of Alabama was in the top 1% of NIH-funded institutions.
The university, Alabama’s largest public employer, has received more than $1 billion in NIH funding.
NIH grants in Alabama supported 4,769 jobs"
www.al.com/news/2025/02...
"In 2024, the Univ. of Alabama was in the top 1% of NIH-funded institutions.
The university, Alabama’s largest public employer, has received more than $1 billion in NIH funding.
NIH grants in Alabama supported 4,769 jobs"
www.al.com/news/2025/02...
What would NIH funding cuts mean for Alabama? 5 things to know
NIH grants support medical institutions and research across the state.
www.al.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is what local news orgs should be doing now:
"In 2024, the Univ. of Alabama was in the top 1% of NIH-funded institutions.
The university, Alabama’s largest public employer, has received more than $1 billion in NIH funding.
NIH grants in Alabama supported 4,769 jobs"
www.al.com/news/2025/02...
"In 2024, the Univ. of Alabama was in the top 1% of NIH-funded institutions.
The university, Alabama’s largest public employer, has received more than $1 billion in NIH funding.
NIH grants in Alabama supported 4,769 jobs"
www.al.com/news/2025/02...
Yes, please!
NIH awards $3.59 billion of research funding to institutions across New York State. This funding supports $7.97 billion of economic activity and 29,298 jobs.
Call your representatives to remind them how much damage capping indirect costs will do.
Call your representatives to remind them how much damage capping indirect costs will do.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
February 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Yes, please!
🙏
If I was running a major news org, I’d keep the focus on the Musk story, which is a real thing. Trump talking about x,y,z isn’t—unless he backs it up with action. Cover what he says, sure, but don’t let him dictate the news agenda.
February 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
🙏
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Here is the guidance in full. The wording is very broad. This should help a lot of organizations and people.
February 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Here is the guidance in full. The wording is very broad. This should help a lot of organizations and people.
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On birthright citizenship, no president can end it "on day one" or any other day. It's in the Constitution - the 14th amendment. Indeed it was one of the key goals of that "new birth of freedom" - formerly enslaved people had parents who were not citizens. Media, please take note!
December 8, 2024 at 10:02 PM
On birthright citizenship, no president can end it "on day one" or any other day. It's in the Constitution - the 14th amendment. Indeed it was one of the key goals of that "new birth of freedom" - formerly enslaved people had parents who were not citizens. Media, please take note!
It’s Article TWO for a reason. Come on Article ONE: DO YOUR JOB! (I’d be happy for Article THREE to step up too, but that’s obviously more complicated. Some good early signs there though.)
January 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
It’s Article TWO for a reason. Come on Article ONE: DO YOUR JOB! (I’d be happy for Article THREE to step up too, but that’s obviously more complicated. Some good early signs there though.)
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NO ONE WANTS THIS
January 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
NO ONE WANTS THIS
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There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent.
The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.
The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.
January 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent.
The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.
The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.
Poof! And there goes the “take care” clause!
I thought I could get through this….Honestly, I don’t know anymore.
I thought I could get through this….Honestly, I don’t know anymore.
January 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Poof! And there goes the “take care” clause!
I thought I could get through this….Honestly, I don’t know anymore.
I thought I could get through this….Honestly, I don’t know anymore.