Alexander Livingston
@alivingston.bsky.social
Associate Director of the Society for the Humanities, Associate Professor of Government @ Cornell. Thinking about race, religion, and disobedience. Latest book: https://tinyurl.com/3fx7mu4b
https://www.alexander-livingston.com/
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“If Columbia or another university confronts the administration on its own, it will lose. If America’s nearly 6,000 universities and colleges launch a campaign in defense of higher education, odds are that Trump will lose.”
March 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“If Columbia or another university confronts the administration on its own, it will lose. If America’s nearly 6,000 universities and colleges launch a campaign in defense of higher education, odds are that Trump will lose.”
A diary of year 1: “I have read several reactions by Germans to the rise of Nazism and I was struck by their difficulty to understand where the daily events they lived through could or would lead. In retrospect, we will know, analyze, and make sense.”
I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
Diary
Week 1
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February 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
A diary of year 1: “I have read several reactions by Germans to the rise of Nazism and I was struck by their difficulty to understand where the daily events they lived through could or would lead. In retrospect, we will know, analyze, and make sense.”
“What does it mean to issue dire warnings about the death of democracy, only to go quiet when those warnings seem to be coming true?”
In the piece I reflect on the silence of the former Vice President. Have a read and let me know what you think
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An Open Letter to Kamala Harris - Public Seminar
Kamala Harris posters, Chicago (2024) | John Ruberry / Shutterstock.com On the final night of the Democratic National Convention in August...Read More
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February 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“What does it mean to issue dire warnings about the death of democracy, only to go quiet when those warnings seem to be coming true?”
As someone who works in King archives it’s safe to say the EO release will be almost entirely FBI dirt of questionable provenance and veracity, whose sole effect will be to continue the FBIs long legacy of slandering King www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
MLK’s family fear new batch of assassination files will have FBI ‘smears’
Family of Martin Luther King Jr says Trump mandate could revive J Edgar Hoover’s efforts to discredit revered activist
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
As someone who works in King archives it’s safe to say the EO release will be almost entirely FBI dirt of questionable provenance and veracity, whose sole effect will be to continue the FBIs long legacy of slandering King www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
In 2003, an army of unqualified finance bros just out of college were sent to “reconstruct” the Iraqi state. Twenty years later, the imperial boomerang comes flying home to destroy the US state this time by way of Silicon Valley.
February 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
In 2003, an army of unqualified finance bros just out of college were sent to “reconstruct” the Iraqi state. Twenty years later, the imperial boomerang comes flying home to destroy the US state this time by way of Silicon Valley.
Whereupon my brilliant colleague Begüm Adalet publishes TWO single-author articles in a single volume of the APSR
The February 2025 issue of the APSR is now available online!
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/latest-issue
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/latest-issue
January 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Whereupon my brilliant colleague Begüm Adalet publishes TWO single-author articles in a single volume of the APSR
Reposted by Alexander Livingston
The February 2025 issue of the APSR is now available online!
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/latest-issue
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/latest-issue
January 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The February 2025 issue of the APSR is now available online!
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/latest-issue
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/latest-issue
Reposted by Alexander Livingston
From our new issue: "An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd" by Nadia Brown, Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Janelle Wong. #ASPRNewIssue https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/an-incomplet…
January 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
From our new issue: "An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd" by Nadia Brown, Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Janelle Wong. #ASPRNewIssue https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/an-incomplet…
Hey Boston friends: am in town all week doing archive research and talks on the MLK book project. Hit me up for a coffee if you’re around.
January 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Hey Boston friends: am in town all week doing archive research and talks on the MLK book project. Hit me up for a coffee if you’re around.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/blo... “In our contemporary moment… the impulse to unsee the connections between the past and the present, health care and fentanyl, primacy and the border, could not be more tempting.” Essential reading from @morefius.bsky.social
Blood Ties - Boston Review
The real story of pain in America.
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January 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
www.bostonreview.net/articles/blo... “In our contemporary moment… the impulse to unsee the connections between the past and the present, health care and fentanyl, primacy and the border, could not be more tempting.” Essential reading from @morefius.bsky.social
Reposted by Alexander Livingston
Last day of the American political thought class. From the new right to the new new right: Goldwater, Rothbard, Ellmers, Vermeule. The only vein of genuine radicalism on the American political scene today. Be careful what you ask for…..
December 9, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Last day of the American political thought class. From the new right to the new new right: Goldwater, Rothbard, Ellmers, Vermeule. The only vein of genuine radicalism on the American political scene today. Be careful what you ask for…..
"I did not become someone different
That I did not want to be
But I'm new here
Will you show me around?"
That I did not want to be
But I'm new here
Will you show me around?"
December 5, 2024 at 6:21 PM
"I did not become someone different
That I did not want to be
But I'm new here
Will you show me around?"
That I did not want to be
But I'm new here
Will you show me around?"