"Our protest might still touch the future, but not the days before. We call this politics."
-- Samera Esmeir, "The Days Before."

Available now on the Critical Times blog: ctjournal.org/2025/08/21/t...

"[C]onducting authority as unbounded has brought into terminal crisis the operation of the fundamental status attached to this authority—that is, of a citizen."

From the latest issue of Critical Times, Adil Hasan Khan on India's citizenship crisis: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

"The semantic power of academic freedom is all the more intense because it is inseparable from another even more charged principle: equality."

From the latest issue of Critical Times, Ajay Skaria on Gaza and academic freedom: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

"[D]ehumanizing the enemy ... as the embodiment of absolute evil poses a direct threat to the fundamental values of democratic states."

From the latest issue of Critical Times, @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social on grievability and the figure of the terrorist: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

"What happens to religion in the Philosophical Investigations? Is it gone, or is it everywhere?"

From the latest issue of Critical Times, Hengameh Ziai on Wittgenstein, Talal Asad, and nonsense: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

From the latest issue of Critical Times: @makdisi.bsky.social, "Beyond the Palestine Exception."

read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

Issue 8:1 of Critical Times is out now from @dukepress.bsky.social!

Featuring @makdisi.bsky.social, Ajay Skaria, Hengameh Ziai, Zamansele Nsele, Senzeni Marasela, Adil Hasan Khan, and @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social

All articles available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

"[E]ach of these ships—and the other ships they inspired—helps create a floating canvas of transinsurgency that carries the seeds of decolonization through the sea."

From the Critical Times archive, @nicosmi.bsky.social on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

"But save in caricatural stoicisms, there is no such thing as a freedom of the mind that does not strive for a freedom in action."

NEW from Ajay Skaria for "In the Midst," the Critical Times blog: ctjournal.org/2025/06/06/t...

"Authoritarianism ... exploits the non-universal experience of social rights and recodifies it into an anti-democratic radicalism."

NEW from Verónica Gago (@veronicagago.bsky.social) in Critical Times: ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...

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