# liner note (blogs) — RSS Amplifier

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## [Administrative Actions](https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/08/administrative-actions.html)

_2026-08-21 · Neil Willcox · Night of the Hats_

12 months ago subscribers to my Patreon received this communication, in Generic Space Fiction Format. Now it has been declassified and all of you can read it. \*\*\*\* Administrative Action Dereliction of duty they call it. Falling asleep on watch. No need to throw me in the ship’s jail for that. Where am I going to go? I’d just stay in my bunk to catch up on some Zs. Fat chance of that here. Spacer…

## [I Read Books: England Under The Stuarts](https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/08/i-read-books-england-under-stuarts.html)

_2026-08-20 · Neil Willcox · Night of the Hats_

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE England Under The Stuarts Subtitled The political, constitutional, and social history of England in the seventeenth century , this was first published in 1902, later revised in 1925, and a new edition in 1960 (the one I read) which reading between the lines of Preface is essentially the 1925 version with an expanded bibliography. Somewhat…

## [I Watch Films: Bram Stoker&#39;s Dracula](https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/08/i-watch-films-bram-stokers-dracula.html)

_2026-08-19 · Neil Willcox · Night of the Hats_

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Bram Stoker’s Dracula In 15 th century Romania Vlad Dracula (Gary Oldman) returns from the war to discover his wife has killed herself, believing him dead. Told she will be damned to hell, he declares he will renounce God and rise from the grave, becoming a vampire. In the 19 th century lawyer Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) is sent to Romania to meet…

## [Monster Of The Week 335: OldWorldNewWorld](https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/08/monster-of-week-335-oldworldnewworld.html)

_2026-08-18 · Neil Willcox · Night of the Hats_

Monster Of The Week 335 is OldWorldNewWorld, dying and struggling to be born, divided by the ocean, other translations suggest a different cast to the idea yet this speaks to people. Monster Of The Week is supported by my patreon which speaks to people with stories of the old world, the new and also monsters.

## [I Read Stories: Ponyhenge by Faith Allington](https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/08/i-read-stories-ponyhenge-by-faith.html)

_2026-08-17 · Neil Willcox · Night of the Hats_

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Ponyhenge by Faith Allington in Kaleidotrope The girls will learn about the foxglove princes when they are older. They whisper about the girls who kissed the princes before. They gather where the merry go round ponies are. What if they follow the prince this time. What if they watch him kiss the girl. What will they do then, at the henge of the…

## [I Watch Films: Batman (1989)](https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/08/i-watch-films-batman-1989.html)

_2026-08-16 · Neil Willcox · Night of the Hats_

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Batman (1989) Mysterious millionaire Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton) fights crime in Gotham city as vigilante The Batman . Organised crime boss Carl Grissom (Jack Palance) sends his henchman Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson) to Axis Chemicals to destroy evidence, intending that Napier will be killed. A complicated fight breaks out between gangsters (some…

## [I Watch TV: A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms](https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/08/i-watch-tv-knight-of-seven-kingdoms.html)

_2026-08-15 · Neil Willcox · Night of the Hats_

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms Ser Arlen of Pennytree, a hedge knight (wandering sword for hire) dies, leaving his squire Dunk alone. Dunk goes to Ashford, intending to take part in the tourney there, hoping to win and so get money from ransoming the armour and horses of whoever he defeated. Along the way he encounters a drunk knight in an inn, and a…

## [Liner Notes for Who Is Andromeda Puce?](https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/08/liner-notes-for-who-is-andromeda-puce.html)

_2026-08-14 · Neil Willcox · Night of the Hats_

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Liner Notes for Who Is Andromeda Puce? Who is Andromeda Puce? I invented her for my novel The Convoluted Adventure Of The Vengeful Yankee Financier , the difficult second album of the Schneeman trilogy. She appears from nowhere, a mistress of disguise, and in the present of the novel she’s always one step behind, trying to get hold of the (possibly…

## [I Watch Films: The Terror (1963)](https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/08/i-watch-films-terror-1963.html)

_2026-08-13 · Neil Willcox · Night of the Hats_

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE The Terror (1963) Duvalier (Jack Nicholson) a French soldier of Napoleon is lost on the beach, and is found by Helene (Sandra Knight). Duvalier tries to learn about her; it turns out Helene resembles Ilsa (also Sandra Knight), the 20 years deceased wife of Baron von Leppe (Boris Karloff). It’s generally believed that von Leppe murdered her when she…

## [I Read Stories: The Wyvern&#39;s Grave by William Morris](https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/08/i-read-stories-wyverns-grave-by-william.html)

_2026-08-12 · Neil Willcox · Night of the Hats_

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Wyvern’s Grave by William Morris in Swords And Sorcery Eiliv the herald is escorted by Iona to see if the mountain pass is clear. It is the realm of a wyvern, and if so no army can march through. Yet it reeks of death, so much so that hunting for supplies is hard. Even if the wyvern is dead there are still dangers on the mountain – and worse still,…

## [Monster Of The Week 334: A/BTesting](https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/08/monster-of-week-334-abtesting.html)

_2026-08-11 · Neil Willcox · Night of the Hats_

Monster Of The Week 334 is A/BTesting, might be loud might be soft, loves to test hates to be tested, thinking of a career change maybe get into teaching or something. Monster Of The Week is supported by my Patreon , which is loud and soft, sometimes testing, and has stories, monsters and more.

## [Taylor Swift’s Signature Red Lip: A Shopping Guide](https://taylorswiftstyle.substack.com/p/taylor-swift-signature-red-lip-guide)

_2026-07-29 · Sarah Chapelle · Liner Notes by Taylor Swift Style_

For National Lipstick Day, a complete guide to every red lip classic Taylor Swift likes

## [Note Pad, #11](https://taylorswiftstyle.substack.com/p/note-pad-11)

_2026-07-23 · Sarah Chapelle · Liner Notes by Taylor Swift Style_

The one Vancouverite tradition I've avoided, the pant style of the summer, and the best purchases I've made in 2026 (so far)

## [Liner Note 55. In the Empire of AI, Universities Will Reinvest or Die (Part 1)](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/07/liner-note-55-in-empire-of-ai.html)

_2026-07-19 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

Leonora Carrington, Crookhey Hall seen July 17 2026 I want to talk about the relations among AI, university teaching, and university budgeting. These links are not getting nearly enough combined attention. College graduates are chief among the frontline victims of the AI story, joining non-college workers in a new phase of disposability (see Heck et al. 2026 for Brookings, with good Sankey…

## [Track 1: Kings](https://strategies.schallundstille.de/en/unkategorisiert-en/kings/)

_2026-07-08 · Stephan · Strategies Against Algorithms_

Never in my wildest dreams would I have dared to imagine that “Strategies Against Algorithms” would receive such a positive response. Given the unusual distribution method and my previous experiences with releasing music online, I had actually expected to ship no more than 10 albums. But here I am now, four months later, waiting for \[…\]

## [Track 2: Trendula](https://strategies.schallundstille.de/en/liner-notes-en/track-2-trendula-2/)

_2026-07-08 · Stephan · Strategies Against Algorithms_

Trendula, the sadistic, relentless giantess. Trendula, who tormented people for fun and even strangled her own sister. Trendula, who was finally struck dead by lightning during a violent storm because God could no longer stand by and watch. Depending on who you ask, this or something like this is how the legend of the three \[…\]

## [Track 3: The Motor Song](https://strategies.schallundstille.de/en/liner-notes-en/track-3-the-motor-song/)

_2026-07-08 · Stephan · Strategies Against Algorithms_

At first glance, one might get the impression that “The Motor Song” is a song about fossil fuels, natural disasters, climate change, and the fact that an alarmingly large number of people – particularly those with plenty of children – couldn’t give a damn about the scientifically proven links between all these things. In reality, \[…\]

## [Track 4: Niar](https://strategies.schallundstille.de/en/liner-notes-en/track-4-niar/)

_2026-07-08 · Stephan · Strategies Against Algorithms_

A humid summer evening in a wooden hut at the foot of the Reinhardswald. Clouds have been in the sky all day. Towering clouds, in fact – huge, majestic towers of cloud. But none of it seems to want to come down. Instead, it just gets hotter, even more suffocating. Then, late in the evening, \[…\]

## [Track 5: Dany](https://strategies.schallundstille.de/en/liner-notes-en/track-5-dany-2/)

_2026-07-08 · Stephan · Strategies Against Algorithms_

A few weeks ago, a collective groan rippled through the still-readable parts of the internet when the (in some circles formerly) respected evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins – who has recently been making headlines mainly due to a transgender controversy – announced that he had christened his Claude chatbot “Claudia”, had fallen in love with her, \[…\]

## [Track 6: God (Everything Is Alright)](https://strategies.schallundstille.de/en/liner-notes-en/track-6-god-everything-is-alright-2/)

_2026-07-08 · Stephan · Strategies Against Algorithms_

(Preliminary note: If you deny climate change and its impact on human civilisation, there’s no need to read any further. This isn’t a personal attack on you, but I can’t discuss arithmetic with people who doubt that one plus one equals two – it simply makes no sense and is exhausting for everyone involved) The \[…\]

## [Track 7: Just Like That](https://strategies.schallundstille.de/en/liner-notes-en/track-7-just-like-that-2/)

_2026-07-08 · Stephan · Strategies Against Algorithms_

“Just Like That” is, in many ways, the exact opposite of “God” While I take a very ironic approach on “God” and don’t really mean a single word of what I’m singing, everything on “Just Like That” comes straight from the heart. And while on “God” I bring out a pretty intense arsenal of instruments \[…\]

## [Track 8: Embeddings](https://strategies.schallundstille.de/en/liner-notes-en/track-8-embeddings-2/)

_2026-07-08 · Stephan · Strategies Against Algorithms_

“Embeddings” is a technical term from the field of machine learning (i.e., what is marketed as “artificial intelligence”). These are mathematical representations of meanings, connections, and patterns—vast numerical spaces in which words, images, voices, songs, and ideas are stored as points. Put simply: Machines don’t “understand” content; instead, they break it down into statistical…

## [Track 9: Walk](https://strategies.schallundstille.de/en/liner-notes-en/track-9-walk-2/)

_2026-07-08 · Stephan · Strategies Against Algorithms_

I often find it fascinating just how much the location where music is created influences the sound. For me, for example, the three tracks I recorded at the “Hundehaus am Reinhardswald” sound completely different from what I’ve done at home. And “Walk” sounds different again – it’s the only track on this album that was \[…\]

## [Track 10: The Artist In The Vineyard](https://strategies.schallundstille.de/en/liner-notes-en/track-10-the-artist-in-the-vineyard-2/)

_2026-07-08 · Stephan · Strategies Against Algorithms_

Two days before a heavy downpour was to devastate Gottsbüren and Gieselwerder, Mrs K. and I, together with our dear relatives, visited an exhibition in Kassel – more specifically, the ‘Lichtwege’, which has been held for several years now on the Weinbergterrassen in the heart of Kassel. The “Weinberg” is a rather extraordinary location. It \[…\]

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## [Pop Culture's Royal Wedding](https://taylorswiftstyle.substack.com/p/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-wedding-recap)

_2026-07-05 · Sarah Chapelle · Liner Notes by Taylor Swift Style_

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce tied the knot Friday evening at Madison Square Garden. And the bride wore …

## [Let's Talk About Taylor Swift's Wedding Week](https://taylorswiftstyle.substack.com/p/ultimate-guide-to-taylor-swift-s-wedding-week-msg-travis-kelce)

_2026-07-02 · Sarah Chapelle · Liner Notes by Taylor Swift Style_

The confirmed reporting, the dress predictions, and the details everyone seems to have an opinion on. Meet me in the comments.

## [My Travel Essentials](https://taylorswiftstyle.substack.com/p/travel-essentials-carryon-travel-tips)

_2026-06-30 · Sarah Chapelle · Liner Notes by Taylor Swift Style_

A packing list perfected, a thoughtful wardrobe travel capsule, and a few helpful tips from a well-traveled carry-on devotee

## [How to Make AI Good for the Humanities (Guest Post)](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/06/how-to-make-ai-good-for-humanities.html)

_2026-06-20 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

Banff, Alberta back country on June 5, 2026 by Dennis M. Hogan, Lecturer on History & Literature, Harvard University This is the third of the talks from the CHCI panel, "The Humanities We Can Build Right Now" in Banff, Alberta. The others were Chris Nealon’s and Asheesh Kapur Siddique’s is here , along with my introduction to the panel. ∞∞∞ This paper is a response to two trends I've noticed over…

## [If This Was A Movie She'd Have An Oscar By Now](https://taylorswiftstyle.substack.com/p/taylor-swift-oscar-best-original-song-recap)

_2026-06-19 · Sarah Chapelle · Liner Notes by Taylor Swift Style_

Reviewing Taylor Swift's songs for Visual Media and asking the question: Will "I Knew It, I Knew You" finally win "Best Original Song"?

## [A Songwriter's Speech](https://taylorswiftstyle.substack.com/p/taylor-swift-songwriters-hall-of-fame-speech-recap)

_2026-06-16 · Sarah Chapelle · Liner Notes by Taylor Swift Style_

My liner notes from a funny, moving, and surprisingly profound 20-minute speech

## [A Response to the Report on Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences by One of Its Targets (Guest Post)](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-response-to-report-on-scholarship-in.html)

_2026-06-15 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

Landing Santa Barbara Airport on Jan 30, 2026 by Charlie Hale, Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara. This is his response as a scholar, whose writings were called into question by the Report. The response does not represent the views of the dean's office, or of the university. Chris here: I'm posting a set of answers to a reporter’s questions…

## [We Need to Build Actual Political Support for the Humanities (Guest Post)](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/06/we-need-to-build-actual-political.html)

_2026-06-12 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

From Tunnel Mtn, Banff on June 6, 2026 By Asheesh Kapur Siddique, Associate Professor of History, UMass Amherst This is the second of the talks from the CHCI panel, "The Humanities We Can Build Right Now" in Banff, Alberta. Chris Nealon’s is here , my introduction to the panel is here . Society needs the cultural knowledge that the humanities produces in its research and disseminates in its…

## [The Ceiling of Liberalism and the Concept of Capital (guest post)](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-ceiling-of-liberalism-and-concept.html)

_2026-06-09 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

by Christopher Nealon , John Dewey Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University This is one of talks from the CHCI panel, "The Humanities We Can Build Right Now" in Banff, Alberta. My explanation of the context and my introduction to the panel are here . \*\* Thanks for having me, folks. I had been planning to devote my short presentation to an outline of the crisis facing STEM fields, and how…

## [Before the Eras: The Images That Introduced Taylor Swift](https://taylorswiftstyle.substack.com/p/taylor-swift-debut-era-photographer)

_2026-06-08 · Sarah Chapelle · Liner Notes by Taylor Swift Style_

The photographer behind Taylor Swift's debut album opens up about the images that started it all

## [Liner Note 54. The Humanities We Can Build Right Now: Introduction](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/06/banff-alberta-back-country-on-june-3.html)

_2026-06-05 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

Banff, Alberta back country on June 3, 2026 This piece is my introduction to a panel at the Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes in Banff, Alberta. CHCI funds research initiatives, among other things--see their Climate Futures call and other initiatives. The theme of this year's meeting was "Building the Future We Want," which is also an implicit theme of this…

## [I Hired A Stylist For the First Time](https://taylorswiftstyle.substack.com/p/i-hired-a-stylist-for-the-first-time)

_2026-05-30 · Sarah Chapelle · Liner Notes by Taylor Swift Style_

... And I learned SO. MUCH.

## [Note Pad, #10](https://taylorswiftstyle.substack.com/p/note-pad-10)

_2026-05-26 · Sarah Chapelle · Liner Notes by Taylor Swift Style_

A love letter to the 13 things that have brought me joy lately

## [UC Irvine Is Once Again Laying Off Faculty and Staff to Pad Its More than $800 million in Core Reserves (Guest Post)](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/05/uc-irvine-is-once-again-laying-off.html)

_2026-05-24 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

UC Irvine on April 13, 2018 by Trevor Griffey, School of Humanities, UC Irvine Last May, 2025, I had the radicalizing experience of successfully lobbying for three months as part of a labor union coalition to prevent $270 million in proposed cuts to the University of California (UC) general fund allocation from the State of California, then watching multiple UC campuses go forward with tens of…

## [From Community Benefit to Rent-Seeking Scam: UC Irvine&#39;s Division of Continuing Education (Guest Post)](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/05/from-community-benefit-to-rent-seeking.html)

_2026-05-22 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

510 E. Peltason Dr, UC Irvine by Trevor Griffey, School of Humanities, UC Irvine The idea of continuing education— sometimes also called “lifelong learning”— is old and venerable. It taps into some of the best humanist ideals of self-improvement and the democratization of access to skills and knowledge. But the management of contemporary continuing education programs by many universities has shown…

## [Standing Up for the UC Means Standing Up Against Zionism (Guest Post)](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/05/standing-up-for-uc-means-standing-up.html)

_2026-05-11 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

Venice, Italy on May 8, 2026 by Sean L. Malloy, Department of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES), UC Merced In September 2025, I wrote a guest post for this blog entitled “Why Should We Stand Up for the UC?” that placed much of the blame for the current federal assault against the University of California on the complicity and weakness of UC leadership, including the Regents,…

## [Liner Note 53. AI and the Public Good](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/05/liner-note-53-ai-and-public-good.html)

_2026-05-02 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

Wayne State, Detroit on April 12, 2019 This is the corrected text of a talk I gave online to the Wayne State University conference, “Public Budgets, Public Good,” on April 30, 2026. Many thanks to the audience, whose questions about theory and practice were excellent. Thanks also to the sponsors: Labor@Wayne, AAUP, HELU, and Public Good U. I’m still sorry I wasn’t there in person. ∞∞∞ I’ve always…

## [Liner Note 52. Fighting for an Interdiscipline: The Humanities&#39; Future](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/04/liner-note-52-fighting-for.html)

_2026-04-23 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

New Haven People's Center on April 18, 2026 I gave this talk at the 45 th Anniversary Conference of the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, April 17, 2026. Many thanks to the organizers, speakers, audience, and my co-panelists. I’m going to talk about humanities ambition in a time of diminished authority for its fields, and I’ll say we need big increases in our ambition in response. But I…

## [Liner Note 51. Academic Freedom of the Third Kind, in a Very Bad Time](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/04/liner-note-51-academic-freedom-of-third.html)

_2026-04-07 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

Stonehenge on December 21, 2025 In the end, the university’s main value is its intellectuality, the treatment of everything that is with thinking and all its methods. That was the first line of the post I started drafting on Monday, on the holiday Easter Monday here in Britain. But I was struggling to concentrate. I thought maybe I needed a rest day: I’d spent a couple of days last week writing a…

## [Liner Note 50. When Will UCOP Stop Hurting UC Campuses?](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/03/liner-note-50-when-will-ucop-stop.html)

_2026-03-24 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

UC Board of Regents, March 2017 That is the question. This is the answer: Never. Or not at least until the campuses fight and change current Office of the President (UCOP) budget ideology and practice. They have never done that. Not yet. I’m going to compare UCOP’s January state budget show with their offstage borrowing. State funding yields little, while the debt yields a lot. I’ll keep my eye on…

## [A Joint MESA-AAUP Report Shows the Corruption of Anti-Semitism Charges (Guest Post)](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-joint-mesa-aaup-report-shows.html)

_2026-03-23 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

Cornell University on July 11, 2014 By Dr. Lori Allen, writing from London Chris Newfield’s recent post discussed a trend in university administration craven behavior: hiding behind the principle of “institutional neutrality” (or “restraint”) as a way to avoid putting well-paid heads above the bushes to say anything principled about the real problems of the day. Chris writes: “Under Trump-turboed…

## [Liner Note 49. University Voice Under a Necro-President](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/03/liner-note-49-university-voice-under.html)

_2026-03-09 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

Genoa, Italy, on June 26, 2024 You aren’t likely to have looked for criticism of Trump’s illegal war on Iran from college presidents or governing boards. If you did type the search string, “university president criticizes war on Iran” early on March 5 th you would have gotten a string of university professors commenting as individuals (“Law school professors say strikes on Iran violate…

## [An Invitation: Know Your Governing Board (Guest Project)](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/03/an-invitation-know-your-governing-board.html)

_2026-03-04 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

UC President Mark Yudof Reviews Demands Nov 2011 Chris here: I've criticized pervasive info failures in higher ed, from campus budget opacities to the inability of national associations in the humanities to gather data that can be used to strategize and build positions, organizations, and infrastructure. Here's a group doing something about that. T he Coalition for Action in Higher Education…

## [Liner Note 48. The Faculty’s Budget Fight at UCLA](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/02/liner-note-48-facultys-budget-fight-at.html)

_2026-02-23 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

UCLA Royce Hall on May 14, 2018 By early spring of the annus horribili s 2025, the UCLA Senate had lost patience with a UCLA Administration that had locked it out of any meaningful role in major decisions. The new CFO, Stephen Agostini , appointed in 2024, wasn’t working with the Senate in established ways. A new chancellor, Julio Frenk, had arrived in January, was to be inaugurated on June 5 th ,…

## [Liner Note 47. Did The Atlantic’s Anti-Woke Bias Spoil its Analysis of Humanities Funding Death?](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/02/liner-note-47-did-atlantics-anti-woke.html)

_2026-02-16 · Chris Newfield · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

East Village on October 31, 2022 Looks like it. There’s some good stuff in Tyler Austin Harper’s Atlantic article, “The Multibillion-Dollar Foundation That Controls the Humanities,” but the piece unravels into a tool of the thing people actually hate about the humanities, which is not its implications for social justice but its civil wars. It blames the increasingly desperate struggles of the…

## [Minneapolis Lessons for Higher Education](https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/01/minneapolis-lessons-for-higher-education.html)

_2026-01-31 · Michael Meranze · Remaking II: Long Revolution_

By Michael Meranze It is too soon to tell what will be the long term impact of the federal invasion of Minneapolis. But it is clear that the images--both of the thuggish brutality of ICE and CBP and the solidarity and bravery of Minnesotans opposing the brutality and occupation--will not going away soon. Minneapolis offers many lessons for possibility of a democratic future in the United States.…

