@DavidAstinWalsh Agree. The current crises in higher ed will lead to its end, but tenured fac should be working with NTT unions to shape a sustainable replacement for future
English
Jennifer Delton
373 posts
Jennifer Delton
@delton85
History prof; author of The Industrialists; Rethinking the 1950s; Racial Integration in Corporate America; Making Minnesota Liberal
United States Katılım Temmuz 2016
376 Takip Edilen197 Takipçiler
This is why I firmly believe the tenure system should be abolished, because it punishes hardworking and productive non-tenure-track scholars while rewarding apathy and sloth for a small handful of tenured faculty.
Jake Capitalism@podsekalnikov
In my four years at my current department, I have finished a book, published 1 journal article, 3 book chapters, and some reviews. I've taught an average of 4.5 classes/semester. 4 is supposed to be the maximum. I routinely score in the top 10% in student feedback.
English
I’ve got to say I kind of like the idea of being “good if periodically frustrating.”
In any case, I enjoyed the discussion.
Sam Adler-Bell@SamAdlerBell
A good if periodically frustrating conversation @KnowYrEnemyPod
English
Is there a good book or article about the history of business schools and business majors?
English
@mkazin @simon_schama A high school reading that keeps on giving, esp. on winter hikes
English
@simon_schama my favorite winter story is Jack London's "To Build a Fire"- utterly chilling in both senses of the word
English
Since all of us blizzard- bound Yorkers may have a bit of reading time today - what's your best rec for a snowstorm story - mine ( by a long way) is Tolstoy's astounding " Master and Man"
English
@hpenatzer @thephilippics @philippilk @compactmag Kudos. Am happy we can finally recognize that "neoliberalism" is liberal and the outcome of New Deal thinking not its opposite.
English
My review of two excellent new books from @thephilippics and @philippilk on a postliberal international order, for @compactmag:
compactmag.com/article/after-…
English
@STS_News Interesting! NAM leaders brought in Reich in 1980s and 1990s to support their campaign for worker retraining and a business version of industrial policy
English
Very happy to see my article “Join us in preparing people for tomorrow’s jobs”: Robert Reich, the “New Economy,” and mythic thinking as interventionist knowledge - doi.org/10.1017/S02698… - finally out in Science in Context.
English
Wow I kind of love this guy.
Populism Updates@PopulismUpdates
In 2021 news outlets reported that the GOP candidate for mayor in NYC Curtis Sliwa (also this year's nominee) lives with 16 cats in a studio apartment. He is on record that he would turn Gracie Mansion into a cat sanctuary, saying it could easily house "over 60 cats"
English
I spoke to @firstthingsmag editor Rusty Reno this week about my recent essay on the politics of post-literacy, The King and the Swarm: firstthings.com/politics-after…
English
Because one can't account for Tr*mpism from within the subfield of right-wing intellectual history (a right-winger had a bad idea in the '90s and here we are?). MAGA comes from manifest failures of the entire political system in the 21st century.
Jeet Heer@HeerJeet
I'm baffled by people who think Trumpism isn't rooted in the Buchananite paleo-con movement of the 1990s. It's just such a blatant denial of reality
English
@DavidAstinWalsh Yes. Cold War Libs AND neolibs contained/marginalized paleocon energy and that is what is supporting MAGA. It's not that Trump is paleocon - he is not. But that energy fuels him.
English
...are a consequence of its continuities -- I would even go further and say "emergence" -- from this tradition!
Stephen Miller is one of the most powerful people in the world today, and he came out of the paleocon orbit!
English
Look, I really don't think that we can look at the Trump administration in August 2025 and conclude "oh, this is just neoliberalism" after six months of trade wars.
Moshik Temkin@moshik_temkin
I bet Trump barely remembers Buchanan, didn't pay much attention to him at the time, and couldn't tell you what Buchanan thought about things. To understand Trump and Trumpism, it's no use looking at ideas or intellectual history. He's the ultimate product of the neoliberal era.
English
@samhaselby ...Buchanan and his allies were making the same substantive arguments about liberalism and globalization in the 1990s. I mean, Sam Francis sounds almost exactly identical to contemporary MAGA intellectuals, and these are the people now driving federal policy!
English
@samhaselby @DavidAstinWalsh The only reason Buchanan never held office was the Cold War/Globalist coalition still reigned and set norms. Iraq War and GFC undermined that, yes. Releasing Buchananite antiglobal energy - which is very MAGA.
English
@DavidAstinWalsh Buchanan is a very marginal figure, David. Never held office, never even came close. No one under 50 or so even knows who he is. MAGA comes from twin catastrophes of the Iraq War and the GFC.
English
@DavidAstinWalsh Hayek, "Why I am not a Conservative," 1960, because he explains the difference between free market globalist liberals and actual conservatives and hence you can discuss this tension in the New Right of turn of 21st century.
English
If you could assign students *one* article, essay, or book chapter by a contemporary New Right thinker that serves as a lucid and coherent introduction to their political thought, what would it be and why?
English
@DavidAstinWalsh Neither the old left nor new left idealized FDR. Both attacked him bc he wasnt leftist. Art Schlesinger started hagiography. Only after Reagan does academic lib/left embrace
English
The leftist hagiography around FDR is based on the (correct) belief that the alternative to the New Deal in America was not socialism but fascism.
Never Forget 1.20.2019@dukakis88
The leftist hagiography about FDR has always been so interesting to me. He wasn’t a progressive warrior, he was an elitist institutionalist trying to hold the system together in the face of economic collapse. He wasn’t leading a worker’s revolution, he was trying to prevent one.
English
I get why most US historians worship at the alter of liberal nationalism, but the US is better understood as an expansionist commercial empire coordinating a range of far-flung regional and provincial despotisms than as a proper nation-state. In this context Trump makes sense.
English
What was the text that defined optimism about globalization during the 1990s?
English
@HeerJeet @DavidAstinWalsh He founded the American Conservative to oppose the Iraq War and condemned American imperialism.
English
@DavidAstinWalsh Buchanan was same in First Gulf War -- forget if he was that way with second.
English
Reminds me of how the John Birch Society was adamantly opposed to the war in Vietnam until they weren’t and became committing to “winning.”
Nikhil Pal Singh@nikhil_palsingh
I wrote this back in 2016, arguing that the term isolationism, let alone restraint, was a bad misreading of Trump and the approach to foreign policy and military action he was likely to pursue.
English
@dbessner @_TimBarker The New Deal Era and impulse INCLUDES free trade, and the Cold War. The idea that there is a break between ND and CW was maybe valid in 1990 but no longer makes sense in 2025
English
