Month: July 2025

The new film “Eddington” is a nasty, cynical, and eerily accurate look at the pandemic’s early days—when there was “nowhere to turn to but the conspiratorial thinking, heated debates, and endless updates online,” writes @shirklesxp:

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/07/eddington-ari-aster-film-review/683595/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYWjegdhq-UB4ZbTPh5ZttUE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Chartbook 399: Columbia University, the Trump administration and “ad hoc governance”: Iterations of the “Unstate”

https://open.substack.com/pub/adamtooze/p/chartbook-399-columbia-university?r=3azmy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Adam Tooze

Jul 24, 2025

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Ed

David Pozen

https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regulation-by-deal-comes-to-higher-ed.html

The General Theory of Enshittification

Paul Krugman

https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/the-general-theory-of-enshittification?r=3azmy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023)

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

What If the Political Pendulum Doesn’t Swing Back?

The Cycles of American History foresaw American voter dealignment, and an electronic age that would see voters prioritize personality over party—but it didn’t anticipate Trump.

https://newrepublic.com/article/197515/political-pendulum-doesnt-swing-back-cycles-of-american-history-schlesinger