Malick Ghachem
@malickghachem.bsky.social
History prof @MIT. Attorney.
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The Joint Center is pleased to announce its Online Seminar Series. On 21 Nov at 12 EST @malickghachem.bsky.social will be speaking at the Harvard Center on "Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue and the Debt of France." Click for abstract, room details & Zoom link.
MALICK GHACHEM
Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue and the Debt of France
histecon.fas.harvard.edu
October 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The Joint Center is pleased to announce its Online Seminar Series. On 21 Nov at 12 EST @malickghachem.bsky.social will be speaking at the Harvard Center on "Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue and the Debt of France." Click for abstract, room details & Zoom link.
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Exactly
I took a spin through the "originalist 'bombshell'" essay. Am I right that it's not new historical work of its own, but a (good) synthesis of work by others (eg, @jdmortenson.bsky.social @jedshug.bsky.social)? So the "bombshell" isn't a new finding but rather the movement credentials of the author?
The Originalist case for ignoring Originalism when it is inconvenient to your results-oriented jurisprudence.
In this essay, I will... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...
In this essay, I will... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...
October 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Exactly
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federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
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Graphic by Ben Nathan of UPenn History
October 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Graphic by Ben Nathan of UPenn History
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Solidarity and collective action is always the answer.
October 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Solidarity and collective action is always the answer.
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A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession.
They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.
They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.
October 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession.
They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.
They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.
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🚨🚨30 years after coming out in English,
Michel-Rolph Trouillot's SILENCING THE PAST
est paru *enfin* en français!!!
Veuillez partager ces bonnes nouvelles avec vos meilleurs amis et collègues francophones! 🗃️🇭🇹
www.amitiefm.ht/post/michel-...
Michel-Rolph Trouillot's SILENCING THE PAST
est paru *enfin* en français!!!
Veuillez partager ces bonnes nouvelles avec vos meilleurs amis et collègues francophones! 🗃️🇭🇹
www.amitiefm.ht/post/michel-...
Michel-Rolph Trouillot : « Faire taire le passé », une autre approche de l’Histoire
Trente ans après sa parution en anglais, Silencing the Past de Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949-2012) paraît enfin en français sous le titre Faire taire le passé – Pouvoir et production historique (Lux Éd...
www.amitiefm.ht
October 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
🚨🚨30 years after coming out in English,
Michel-Rolph Trouillot's SILENCING THE PAST
est paru *enfin* en français!!!
Veuillez partager ces bonnes nouvelles avec vos meilleurs amis et collègues francophones! 🗃️🇭🇹
www.amitiefm.ht/post/michel-...
Michel-Rolph Trouillot's SILENCING THE PAST
est paru *enfin* en français!!!
Veuillez partager ces bonnes nouvelles avec vos meilleurs amis et collègues francophones! 🗃️🇭🇹
www.amitiefm.ht/post/michel-...
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I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Letter Regarding Compact
MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...
docs.google.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.
September 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.
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Why would anyone pay U of Chicago tuition for a Chat GPT education?
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Why would anyone pay U of Chicago tuition for a Chat GPT education?
if you haven't seen @artgoldhammer.bsky.social's new Substack, definitely worth a read! arthurgoldhammer356783.substack.com
The Sense of an Ending | Arthur Goldhammer | Substack
Arthur Goldhammer is a writer and translator. He is the author of the novel Shooting War and the translator of more than 125 works from the French. He is also a senior affiliate of Harvard's Center fo...
arthurgoldhammer356783.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
if you haven't seen @artgoldhammer.bsky.social's new Substack, definitely worth a read! arthurgoldhammer356783.substack.com
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Coming up next month at Harvard Law School - “The Jewish Problem, Then and Now: Rethinking Louis Brandeis’s Liberalism” Details in the link, and zoom option to follow pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-je...
“The Jewish Problem, Then and Now: Rethinking Louis Brandeis’s Liberalism”
A Symposium sponsored by the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at the Harvard Law School *Sep. 16, 2025* 2025 marks the 110th anniversary of Louis Brandeis’s…
pjil.law.harvard.edu
August 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Coming up next month at Harvard Law School - “The Jewish Problem, Then and Now: Rethinking Louis Brandeis’s Liberalism” Details in the link, and zoom option to follow pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-je...
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as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders
June 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders
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“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
June 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
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Seems a good day to remind that etymology of privilege is “private law”—the monarch makes one law for some people, another for others. Nothing is “universal” or “common” (and “public” = monarch’s self display to court).
The democratic revolutions of 18C challenged all that. The work continues
The democratic revolutions of 18C challenged all that. The work continues
June 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Seems a good day to remind that etymology of privilege is “private law”—the monarch makes one law for some people, another for others. Nothing is “universal” or “common” (and “public” = monarch’s self display to court).
The democratic revolutions of 18C challenged all that. The work continues
The democratic revolutions of 18C challenged all that. The work continues
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the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does
June 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does
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If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
April 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
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Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
April 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
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Even if you think Paul Weiss and Columbia made the only choice available to them in the circumstances (and that's not what I think, to be clear), you have to recognize that there's no future for our democracy if every powerful institution approaches official extortion in this way.
March 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Even if you think Paul Weiss and Columbia made the only choice available to them in the circumstances (and that's not what I think, to be clear), you have to recognize that there's no future for our democracy if every powerful institution approaches official extortion in this way.
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Catholic Charities of San Diego is now also closing its shelter services. Jewish Family Services of SD already had to do layoffs because of *no* migrants; CCSD has gone from about 3000 asylee clients a week-->"a handful" per week! www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/c...
Catholic Charities of San Diego announces layoffs because of Trump immigration policies
Catholic Charities says it's letting dozens of its employees go because of the Trump administration's immigration policies.
www.nbcsandiego.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Catholic Charities of San Diego is now also closing its shelter services. Jewish Family Services of SD already had to do layoffs because of *no* migrants; CCSD has gone from about 3000 asylee clients a week-->"a handful" per week! www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/c...
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THIS
The 14th amendment is crystal clear, but because I’m a law school professor at a prestigious university, I’m going to pretend that the arguments that other law school professors at prestigious universities are making about its ambiguity have some kind of merit.
January 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
THIS