Zohran Mamdani, Eugene Debs, and Jawaharlal Nehru: Reading Mamdani's victory speech through the lens of Louis Althusser's notion of a "new philosophical practice" that takes sides and makes sharp demarcations. On Substack: https://t.co/px2YD8Hvcy | Video

@schradie @BernardHarcourt @jkirchick “The first time I heard about him was through an Instagram reel.” Larissa Morimoto tells #F24Debate how social media helped #Mamdani stand out beyond politics.

@schradie 🇺🇸 Is #Mamdani trying to avoid a violent confrontation — or set the stage for one? @BernardHarcourt and @jkirchick clash over how New York’s new mayor will handle a possible Trump crackdown. More in #F24Debate ➡️ https://t.co/RJGD6VvUQu

Steve Bannon is calling for a Christian nation in Jerusalem, a three-state solution. He also calls himself a Christian Nationalist. Does Christianity lean far Right? If so, how come it also nourishes Leftist projects? Is it meaningless? New Substack essay: https://t.co/t8OI9Nr03c

How is it that the far Right today has become radical Leninists and the Left has become Burkean conservatives? Just posted a new essay in which I explore the far Right’s embrace of Lenin and radical politics--and how the Left should respond: https://t.co/tWHOaJA8Jj

Beccaria was way ahead of us, back in 1764, when he worried about the brutalizing effects of state violence: How it could transform our ways of thinking and feeling. He was only 25 years old at the time—a Gen Z by our standards today. More here: https://t.co/wCQ7jsYEfr

Tuesday, October 7th join author Daniel Louis Wyche in conversation with Bernard Harcourt about THE CARE OF THE SELF AND THE CARE OF THE OTHER at Book Culture starting at 7pm. @bookculture @BernardHarcourt https://t.co/lf953Ye0LO

Trump just ordered and the U.S. Navy just carried out another summary execution of 4 persons suspected of drug running in international waters. I am at a loss of words, so I am re-upping my piece on this just posted yesterday… https://t.co/HOQcNpUGXG

President Trump is deliberately eliding and fabricating lethal categories at the same time as he is creating a new war on anti-fascism in America. I just posted an essay about it on my Substack here, where I try to disentangle the categories: https://t.co/wYjOBv1a47

Join us tonight (10/1) for the launch of Michel Foucault's 1953-54 book, newly published in English by @ColumbiaUP *Binswanger and Existential Analysis* at 7pm at @bookculture on 112th between Broadway and Amsterdam. We will discuss the early Foucault: https://t.co/2W0vuks9my

Cooperation and artist cooperatives--a perfect synergy, especially in these heightened times of exclusion and political repression. I just posted a review of the "Press & Pull" print exhibit by @RBPMW at the @JamesGalleryGC at @GC_CUNY. Open access here: https://t.co/7F7sNoIxEz

"Twilight of American Democracy": I just posted a new essay on my Substack mapping the different theories that are circulating about democratic breakdown in the United States. You can read it here: https://t.co/S1YPyGVRjI

yes this is a tweet to let you know event season starts tonight https://t.co/bFoOc0zNuN Mark Mazower TONIGHT @DogUmwelt & Christine Webb in convo Monday Stephanie Cowell on her Bronte novel Tuesday @BernardHarcourt on Foucault Wednesday & more!

Waymo is designed to obey road rules & never drives under the influence. Learn why these advocates say it could save lives.

"To confront Hegel's contradictions and invent a new politics": Just posted a short introduction to the new seminar series Hegel 13/13 coming up this year at @ColumbiaCCCT. Text version online here: https://t.co/a9bX62NcxC YouTube version online here: https://t.co/FPqkprCLo8

OK, here's the new website for Hegel 13/13: https://t.co/bPBgjZvBGy. Soon we begin with preparatory sessions (informal conversations, small seminars, reading groups, lectures) to lay the groundwork for the full seminars. The ambition: to develop a new critical praxis for today...

Coming this year: Hegel 13/13 a multi-year project that explores the confrontations with G.W.F. Hegel’s thought, from 19th century to present, with the aim of developing new critical perspectives and practices for today’s times of crisis. I am building the website now, stay tuned

UPDATE: Alabama nitrogen hypoxia method of execution litigation: the federal judge just allowed us to proceed (denying AL attorney general's motion to dismiss) on our challenge to nitrogen gas method of execution. A good day, given Louisiana. Order here: https://t.co/laNACyxxOE

“In the following chapter, Karl Marx will be criticized.” — Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition. Join us at Marx 13/13 on Wed. Feb. 19 at 6:15pm for a keynote by Seyla Benhabib @columbiaccct.bsky.social on Arendt's reading of Marx. Info here https://t.co/CGanWgPbFx

I've written up my intervention at Marx 8/13 "A Counterrevolution without a Revolution" on the Eighteenth Brumaire and our current situation: "We are witnessing today a new offensive in the American Counterrevolution." Posted on The 13/13 | Essays here: https://t.co/XToGDa8Nn7

When Trump cites Napoleon, it's time to reread the *Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon* where Marx demonstrates "how the class struggle in France created circumstances that made it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero’s part.” Video here: