Catherine Liu

I’ve Had Enough of Cinema’s Obsession with Art as Therapy | Ocula ocula.com/magazine/opini…

I built a dashboard to explore the last 25+ years of @nytimes coverage. 1.5B words, 2.2M articles, 26K reporters. It's fascinating to look at the world’s preeminent news organization not as daily stories but as patterns of attention, ebbing and flowing. tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/

The absence of huge antiwar protests from the US probably deserves to be placed in this context

Another classic from the absolute GOAT: the reason you think politicians are letting you down is because you have too much time on your hands, and it's only going to get worse as things keep getting better for you!

Today I released an investigative piece on something most people don't think about until they really need it - ambulances. The price of ambulances has skyrocketed since 2012. Why? It's likely... private equity. thebignewsletter.com/p/code-red-why…

There’s a malign confluence I see in some parts of academia between posthumanism, a certain invasive and inappropriate harnessing of indigenous concerns to discredit mainstream societies, managerialism, and AI overreach. Bell encapsulates it. theguardian.com/technology/201…

Jeff Schmidt talked about this very issue back in 2000. The adjunct positions are not there as ladders into the profession. They’re a parallel (and permanent) contingent labour pool and way of “cooling out the mark.”

Chakrabarti is one of the few to take the logical step and say that if America wants to be a moral force in the world, as we profess to want to be, we must sanction Israel for what it’s doing, not just withhold funding

How liberals monetized trauma | Catherine Liu on Marx, Trump, and identi... youtu.be/CS1Ng3CcAOs?si… via @YouTube @IAI_TV

@sogultuna I don’t know what I think about Rockhill and the one true Marxism he seems to espouse. Also he stole his title from a much better researched book Frances Stonor Saunders Who Paid the Piper?: the Cultural Cold War . That was the UK title

Benzeri şekilde @CLiuAnon’un şu risale boyutunda tartışmalar yaratan eseri de Türkçeye çevrilmeyi bekliyor. PMC’nin Batı’da solu nasıl ele geçirip de solun temel ilkelerine ihanet ettiğini gözler önüne süren bir kitap. Türkiye için de dersler taşıyor. Çeviri niyetim ve dosyama rağmen, pel çok Avrupa ve Asya diline tercüme edilmiş sevgili Hocam Catherine için hâlâ bir yayınevi bulabilmiş değilim. Umarım bu çağrı ilgili yerlere ulaşabilir.

A decade ago, Adolph Reed and Walter Benn Michaels told the left it had to choose between class politics and identity politics. It did, and we're living with the consequences, argues @ryan_zickgraf: compactmag.com/article/how-th…

Realizing I’ve never actually seen one of my intellectual heroes speak. She’s as dynamic a speaker as she is a writer!

Zionists billionaires Lynne and Stewart Resnick took control of 58% of water in Kern Water Bank from the state of California in a secret meeting aka "Monterey Amendments" in 1994 in order to grow pistachio. They use more water than San Francisco and LA combined. Top IDF donor

Love his simple and relentless campaign to make government look good again.

Insanely beautiful train station like this had the capacity to see 216 trains daily, and only sees six now per week. Six.

These stories are 7 years apart. It not only illustrates Marx’s theory of capital as a “vampire” (literally), but also how it progressively erodes working-class life: “Accumulation of wealth at one pole is…at the same time accumulation of misery…at the opposite pole.”

@kein_unfug @DropSiteNews @GetTFVaccinated Unholy?

@DropSiteNews @GetTFVaccinated Bernie and his unholy followers shouldn't have undermined Biden/Harris.

💢 Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner on U.S. support for Israel: “Not a single taxpayer dollar should be spent on arming and defending a country that commits a genocide. I would absolutely support Senator Sanders' bill to restrict military aid, but I'll be entirely honest, looking down the road, this is a nation that right now is exterminating people. It is going to be very difficult for me to ever be able to look at them again and see someone that we should be working with closely… What I am witnessing now is the height of horror. And the fact that it is being done by bombs that are built in this country and paid for with our tax dollars is utterly unconscionable. And it needs to end.” Clip via @MarcoFoster_

When brilliant teachers emerge, they disappear. Jaime Escalante created one of the finest AP calculus programs in the country. He could not scale it. Marva Collins founded an exceptional school. She could not replicate her excellence across ten other schools. The question is not why these teachers are geniuses. The question is why we have no system to transmit their genius. If Escalante had been a martial arts master, he would have founded a school. His best students would open branches displaying their lineage. Over generations, a coherent tradition would spread. This happens in martial arts, music, dance, and craft traditions. It does not happen in education. I call this absence The Missing Institution. In the absence of government monopoly, we would have seen the spontaneous creation of hundreds of pedagogical lineages, each designed to transmit the artistry of a master teacher. Instead, teacher training is controlled by education professors who publish research papers, not by virtuoso teachers who practice their craft daily. Montessori and Waldorf escaped the system. They created their own teacher training lineages outside government control. KIPP Academies created an internal leadership program. Hi Tech High licensed its own teachers. The moment schools escape government domination, they spontaneously create The Missing Institution. For underprivileged children, this absence is catastrophic. They need schools that transmit cultural capital through immersion in a living tradition.

@Nicole_Lee_Sch @AlecMacGillis This is sad. Idpol know nothingism

So this is not AT ALL historically accurate. But hey you can GO READ newspapers from the past by using Chronicling America! Free, funded by NEH, includes thousands of newspapers dating back to the 1700s, digitized in high res. Enjoy! loc.gov/collections/ch…

Kids aren’t protesting this war because the Israel Lobby already killed free speech. Over the last two years college students protesting anything tangentially related to Israel faced blacklists from jobs, student group bans, suspensions from school, arrests and deportations.

BREAKING🚨 Russia has just announced that all future 0il and gas deals with Europe will be priced in Chinese currency (yuan). This is not just a policy shift — it’s a geopolitical earthquak£. For decades, global energy trade has been dominated by the U.S. dollar. Now, this move signals a major push toward a new financial order led by China and its currency. What does this mean? • A potential weakening of the dollar’s dominance • Stronger economic ties between Russia and China • A strategic shift in global power dynamics The energy market may never look the same again.