Chris Newfield
@cnewf.bsky.social
Psychic life of culture, green political economy, critical university studies, knowledge-power struggles, epistemic justice.
Meranze's new post at the Remaking blog: UC officials are making technical changes in personnel policies in a way that could allow them to set academic freedom aside when they perceive it to conflict with their institutional interests. Know the fine print utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/uc-m...
November 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Meranze's new post at the Remaking blog: UC officials are making technical changes in personnel policies in a way that could allow them to set academic freedom aside when they perceive it to conflict with their institutional interests. Know the fine print utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/uc-m...
Elon’s forever legacy
November 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Elon’s forever legacy
If you are wondering what Labour plans to do to British universities, I wrote a piece for you! isrf.org/blog/labours...
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If you are wondering what Labour plans to do to British universities, I wrote a piece for you! isrf.org/blog/labours...
Open UC Sytemwide Town Hall on Friday Nov 7!
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Open UC Sytemwide Town Hall on Friday Nov 7!
More of the abject collapse of corporate America before Trump. The head of the FCC threatens ABC with (illegal) license pulling, ABC owner Disney's CEO Bob Iger cancels Kimmel. Iger suspends the First Amendment: Boycott Disney!
September 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
More of the abject collapse of corporate America before Trump. The head of the FCC threatens ABC with (illegal) license pulling, ABC owner Disney's CEO Bob Iger cancels Kimmel. Iger suspends the First Amendment: Boycott Disney!
a LARGE number of University of California unions and related organizations are rallying at the Board of Regents meeting on Tuesday. It's united opposition to capituation to Trump. Do join if you can! and please spread the word.
September 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
a LARGE number of University of California unions and related organizations are rallying at the Board of Regents meeting on Tuesday. It's united opposition to capituation to Trump. Do join if you can! and please spread the word.
I wrote a new post at Remaking on the Brown U agreement--much worse than announced--and what it would take for faculty to block defeatist policy. I discuss 5 statements--Paxson at Brown, @adam_tooze vs. @lionel_trolling, Paul Campos, Rachid Khalili. The final 2 really help. An Athens sunset. /1
August 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I wrote a new post at Remaking on the Brown U agreement--much worse than announced--and what it would take for faculty to block defeatist policy. I discuss 5 statements--Paxson at Brown, @adam_tooze vs. @lionel_trolling, Paul Campos, Rachid Khalili. The final 2 really help. An Athens sunset. /1
in my list of revenue crushes coming to highered via Trumpism, cutting student loan forgiveness & plans is number 12, and the worst for current students. This is from Hiltzik's very good piece www.latimes.com/business/sto...; also my list of revenue crises utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/05/line...
June 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
in my list of revenue crushes coming to highered via Trumpism, cutting student loan forgiveness & plans is number 12, and the worst for current students. This is from Hiltzik's very good piece www.latimes.com/business/sto...; also my list of revenue crises utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/05/line...
U.S. Med research peer review to be replaced by RFKs personal opinions. Via STAT
May 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
U.S. Med research peer review to be replaced by RFKs personal opinions. Via STAT
The survey is billed as "few support punitive funding cuts to colleges and universities."But actually only 45% oppose them, throwing in the "somewhat oppose." Trump has controlled US political discourse for 10 years with 40% approval, so to reverse his heinous nonsense means actively building bigger
May 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The survey is billed as "few support punitive funding cuts to colleges and universities."But actually only 45% oppose them, throwing in the "somewhat oppose." Trump has controlled US political discourse for 10 years with 40% approval, so to reverse his heinous nonsense means actively building bigger
@insidehighered.com has a hopeful piece on public support for higher education, but sadly the data's not so great. Here's a screenshot from the underlying study. I'm not excited that 44% favor "courses that teach about racism." IHE: www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
May 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
@insidehighered.com has a hopeful piece on public support for higher education, but sadly the data's not so great. Here's a screenshot from the underlying study. I'm not excited that 44% favor "courses that teach about racism." IHE: www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Trumper war on research looking ahead, with a Kennedy twist. From STAT.
April 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Trumper war on research looking ahead, with a Kennedy twist. From STAT.
Who Rules the Academy--and how to fight back! our panel is at 1 pm Eastern on Today's Day of Action for Higher Ed! www.dayofactionforhighered.org
April 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Who Rules the Academy--and how to fight back! our panel is at 1 pm Eastern on Today's Day of Action for Higher Ed! www.dayofactionforhighered.org
"The optimistic case is that we have passed peak stupid"--but Katie Martin @financialtimes.com explains why the damage is done. www.ft.com/content/fbe7...
April 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"The optimistic case is that we have passed peak stupid"--but Katie Martin @financialtimes.com explains why the damage is done. www.ft.com/content/fbe7...
Today’s @FT 1page of the British poly crisis—capitalism demands subsidies, builders can’t build safe buildings, NHS privatization by pieces, drill baby drill
April 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Today’s @FT 1page of the British poly crisis—capitalism demands subsidies, builders can’t build safe buildings, NHS privatization by pieces, drill baby drill
this is why you want a businessman in the White House.
April 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
this is why you want a businessman in the White House.
Further to my belief that Trupp is the gravedigger of the U.S. economy, this from an Aston U report at the FT. Tarrifs hurt North America the most, taking down peaceful neighbors to north and south, then the US itself. Tech tax haven Ireland is the only real victim among European "enemies."
April 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Further to my belief that Trupp is the gravedigger of the U.S. economy, this from an Aston U report at the FT. Tarrifs hurt North America the most, taking down peaceful neighbors to north and south, then the US itself. Tech tax haven Ireland is the only real victim among European "enemies."
Classic terrible chilling effect of attacks on free speech and academic freedom: Yale bans its own scholar from campus after one AI website links her to a sanctioned organization @nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Classic terrible chilling effect of attacks on free speech and academic freedom: Yale bans its own scholar from campus after one AI website links her to a sanctioned organization @nytimes.com
it's completely maddening that McMahon of world wrestling can casually destroy the Dept of Education, especially its units collecting data on things like racial inequality of attainment, without evidence of a problem and with only a bullshit PR statement about how gutting is really efficiency.
March 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
it's completely maddening that McMahon of world wrestling can casually destroy the Dept of Education, especially its units collecting data on things like racial inequality of attainment, without evidence of a problem and with only a bullshit PR statement about how gutting is really efficiency.