Kathleen J. Frydl
@kfrydl.bsky.social
February 2026: Liberalism & the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/liberalism-and-the-reinvention-of-the-modern-corporation-9780197567401?lang=en&cc=us#
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/liberalism-and-the-reinvention-of-the-modern-corporation-9780197567401?lang=en&cc=us#
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Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.
February 19, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.
Omg Alysa Liu (USA) won the gold in ladies figure skating
what a day for US women on the ice
what a day for US women on the ice
February 19, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Omg Alysa Liu (USA) won the gold in ladies figure skating
what a day for US women on the ice
what a day for US women on the ice
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MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
February 19, 2026 at 8:59 PM
MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
I keep refreshing the NYTimes live blog & it's all CAPS and !!! marks
so it must be one heck of a game
so it must be one heck of a game
February 19, 2026 at 8:45 PM
I keep refreshing the NYTimes live blog & it's all CAPS and !!! marks
so it must be one heck of a game
so it must be one heck of a game
Team USA v Canada for Olympic gold in women's hockey today.
I'm cheering for Team USA & think that team would be a very worthy winner.
Incredibly dominate performance from them to date.
I'm cheering for Team USA & think that team would be a very worthy winner.
Incredibly dominate performance from them to date.
February 19, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Team USA v Canada for Olympic gold in women's hockey today.
I'm cheering for Team USA & think that team would be a very worthy winner.
Incredibly dominate performance from them to date.
I'm cheering for Team USA & think that team would be a very worthy winner.
Incredibly dominate performance from them to date.
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Drug reformers measure their interventions against outcomes, something drug warriors don't do.
But reformers' claims are often self-serving. Recent declines in drug OD deaths were a magnitude of order greater than what's been shown for demand-side.
The answer was always going to be in the supply:
But reformers' claims are often self-serving. Recent declines in drug OD deaths were a magnitude of order greater than what's been shown for demand-side.
The answer was always going to be in the supply:
Baltimore’s remarkable decline in drug overdose deaths comes with new challenges
Baltimore’s overdose crisis does not appear to be ebbing, but evolving, according to interviews with experts. A mix of other chemicals — often less immediately lethal but dangerous in other ways — has...
www.thebanner.com
February 19, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Drug reformers measure their interventions against outcomes, something drug warriors don't do.
But reformers' claims are often self-serving. Recent declines in drug OD deaths were a magnitude of order greater than what's been shown for demand-side.
The answer was always going to be in the supply:
But reformers' claims are often self-serving. Recent declines in drug OD deaths were a magnitude of order greater than what's been shown for demand-side.
The answer was always going to be in the supply:
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You can't address affordability without being willing to take on corporate power head on. newrepublic.com/article/2064...
We Can’t Address Affordability Without Tackling Corporate Power
Concentrated economic influence is making us increasingly powerless—and angry.
newrepublic.com
February 19, 2026 at 4:40 PM
You can't address affordability without being willing to take on corporate power head on. newrepublic.com/article/2064...
Drug reformers measure their interventions against outcomes, something drug warriors don't do.
But reformers' claims are often self-serving. Recent declines in drug OD deaths were a magnitude of order greater than what's been shown for demand-side.
The answer was always going to be in the supply:
But reformers' claims are often self-serving. Recent declines in drug OD deaths were a magnitude of order greater than what's been shown for demand-side.
The answer was always going to be in the supply:
Baltimore’s remarkable decline in drug overdose deaths comes with new challenges
Baltimore’s overdose crisis does not appear to be ebbing, but evolving, according to interviews with experts. A mix of other chemicals — often less immediately lethal but dangerous in other ways — has...
www.thebanner.com
February 19, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Drug reformers measure their interventions against outcomes, something drug warriors don't do.
But reformers' claims are often self-serving. Recent declines in drug OD deaths were a magnitude of order greater than what's been shown for demand-side.
The answer was always going to be in the supply:
But reformers' claims are often self-serving. Recent declines in drug OD deaths were a magnitude of order greater than what's been shown for demand-side.
The answer was always going to be in the supply:
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The SAVE Act would disenfranchise millions of Americans of all ages and races, but younger voters and voters of color would suffer disproportionately. Tell Congress to reject this anti-voter bill: bit.ly/4tmVIor
February 18, 2026 at 6:03 PM
The SAVE Act would disenfranchise millions of Americans of all ages and races, but younger voters and voters of color would suffer disproportionately. Tell Congress to reject this anti-voter bill: bit.ly/4tmVIor
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American skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin wins gold in women’s slalom, breaking an eight-year medal drought at the Winter Games.
US star Mikaela Shiffrin wins slalom to break 8-year Olympic drought
Mikaela Shiffrin’s eight-year Olympic medal drought is over. The American skiing standout has put in two dominant runs to win the women’s slalom by 1.50 seconds.
bit.ly
February 18, 2026 at 1:37 PM
American skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin wins gold in women’s slalom, breaking an eight-year medal drought at the Winter Games.
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“Agrochemical maker Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients announced a proposed $7.25 billion settlement Tuesday to resolve thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer.”
Bayer agrees to $7.25 billion proposed settlement over thousands of Roundup cancer lawsuits
Bayer has agreed to $7.25 billion proposed settlement over thousands of lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer.
www.statnews.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:26 PM
“Agrochemical maker Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients announced a proposed $7.25 billion settlement Tuesday to resolve thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer.”
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How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.
Stuart Schrader on what Trump’s urban occupations mean for police and the unions that represent them https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/02/14/authoritarianism-from-below-trump-city-takeovers-police/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-02-14_Schrader-policing-1
Authoritarianism from Below | Stuart Schrader
As National Guard troops and federal officers swarmed Washington, D.C., in August, sent by President Donald Trump to confront what he declared a “crime
www.nybooks.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.
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Long forgotten: Democrats swept through the midterms of 1990 and showed Bush was beatable (and forced Bush to raise taxes) because Rev. Jesse Jackson systematically organized volunteers all over the country. He contested the South after Dukakis surrendered. Clinton owed him. So do we.
February 17, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Long forgotten: Democrats swept through the midterms of 1990 and showed Bush was beatable (and forced Bush to raise taxes) because Rev. Jesse Jackson systematically organized volunteers all over the country. He contested the South after Dukakis surrendered. Clinton owed him. So do we.
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Happy to share the latest. My views on the current battlefield dynamics and where the war stands in 2026. Happy to share the latest. www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/ukrai...
Ukraine’s War of Endurance
The fight for advantage in the conflict’s fifth year.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Happy to share the latest. My views on the current battlefield dynamics and where the war stands in 2026. Happy to share the latest. www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/ukrai...
Reposted by Kathleen J. Frydl
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:28 PM
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
Jacob Elordi looks like Iker Casillas. He looks Castilian.
I think that's an acceptable Heathcliff choice.
More so I think the casting missed an opportunity, rather than "got it wrong," when it comes to casting a dark-skinned Heathcliff.
I think that's an acceptable Heathcliff choice.
More so I think the casting missed an opportunity, rather than "got it wrong," when it comes to casting a dark-skinned Heathcliff.
February 15, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Jacob Elordi looks like Iker Casillas. He looks Castilian.
I think that's an acceptable Heathcliff choice.
More so I think the casting missed an opportunity, rather than "got it wrong," when it comes to casting a dark-skinned Heathcliff.
I think that's an acceptable Heathcliff choice.
More so I think the casting missed an opportunity, rather than "got it wrong," when it comes to casting a dark-skinned Heathcliff.
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A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations.
arxiv.org/abs/2602.058...
#AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm
arxiv.org/abs/2602.058...
#AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm
The Case of the Mysterious Citations
Mysterious citations are routinely appearing in peer-reviewed publications throughout the scientific community. In this paper, we developed an automated pipeline and examine the proceedings of four ma...
arxiv.org
February 11, 2026 at 2:22 PM
A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations.
arxiv.org/abs/2602.058...
#AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm
arxiv.org/abs/2602.058...
#AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm
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There’s a risk that this lawless premeditated killing spree fades into background noise, like the neglected but intensified U.S. bombing campaign in Somalia.
More lawless slaughter at sea.
First strike in the Caribbean in a few months.
As usual, the “designated terrorist organizations” (note plural) supposedly operating the vessel are unidentified.
And no details on the victims smeared as “narco-terrorists.”
First strike in the Caribbean in a few months.
As usual, the “designated terrorist organizations” (note plural) supposedly operating the vessel are unidentified.
And no details on the victims smeared as “narco-terrorists.”
February 14, 2026 at 11:13 AM
There’s a risk that this lawless premeditated killing spree fades into background noise, like the neglected but intensified U.S. bombing campaign in Somalia.
Title is:
Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation
Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation
Pub day for my book (today) has fallen during a somber, not celebratory, time.
I'll try piggyback on future reviews & etc.
Meanwhile, if you are a scholar interested in the political history of the US in the recent past...
This may be of interest
share.google/I5ZDdEKt6zhZ...
I'll try piggyback on future reviews & etc.
Meanwhile, if you are a scholar interested in the political history of the US in the recent past...
This may be of interest
share.google/I5ZDdEKt6zhZ...
share.google
February 13, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Title is:
Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation
Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation
Pub day for my book (today) has fallen during a somber, not celebratory, time.
I'll try piggyback on future reviews & etc.
Meanwhile, if you are a scholar interested in the political history of the US in the recent past...
This may be of interest
share.google/I5ZDdEKt6zhZ...
I'll try piggyback on future reviews & etc.
Meanwhile, if you are a scholar interested in the political history of the US in the recent past...
This may be of interest
share.google/I5ZDdEKt6zhZ...
share.google
February 13, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Pub day for my book (today) has fallen during a somber, not celebratory, time.
I'll try piggyback on future reviews & etc.
Meanwhile, if you are a scholar interested in the political history of the US in the recent past...
This may be of interest
share.google/I5ZDdEKt6zhZ...
I'll try piggyback on future reviews & etc.
Meanwhile, if you are a scholar interested in the political history of the US in the recent past...
This may be of interest
share.google/I5ZDdEKt6zhZ...
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some weird-ass shit happening on the Federal Register, with a list of Chinese-military-aiding firms being published and _very_ rapidly withdrawn www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
February 13, 2026 at 2:41 PM
some weird-ass shit happening on the Federal Register, with a list of Chinese-military-aiding firms being published and _very_ rapidly withdrawn www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...
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there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:01 PM
there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time
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On why we shouldn't move on too quickly from Trump's effort to imprison six members of Congress for making a video...
my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Donald Trump’s Disingenuous Promise to Champion Free Speech
It is Donald Trump’s systematic campaign to stamp out dissent and punish those who disagree with him that will be remembered as among the most singularly un-American aspects of his disruptive tenure.
www.newyorker.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:28 PM
On why we shouldn't move on too quickly from Trump's effort to imprison six members of Congress for making a video...
my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:35 PM
This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”