Prof U-Chicago. Postcolonial-Anticolonial theory; US & British Empire; Colonialism & other previously arcane topics. find me at https://teapaw.org/t.co/X9bShlNou0
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Now available: Policing Empires: global.oup.com/academic/prod……. Promo code for 30% off is ASFLYQ6. Honored to have endorsements from these formidable writers
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IMPERIAL ENTANGLEMENTS OF POLICING, edited by @jgo34 & me, is published today by @DukePress! It’s got 14 chapters, plus an intro, on policing as central to empire and how empire has shaped policing. Order w/ discount code E26IMPRL. dukeupress.edu/imperial-enta…
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1. I’m not “defending” Arday. Just noting the recent report. Ppl need to calm down.
2. This very post is another example of the simple truth: it was never about the plagiarism.
Can we please stop this nonsense already? This is absolutely sickening.
Yes, only a minority of Arday's scholarship looks outright fraudulent and needs to be retracted. And I understand why lefty anti-racism activists may still mistake that for vindication.
But academics who still defend Arday--after all the blatant lies available to anyone who wants to see them--are doing much more harm to higher ed than the man himself ever did.
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“If Mamdani fears antagonizing the police department and disturbing this slumbering beast, he should note that things have changed.” New online: an interview with @stschrader1 about Zohran Mamdani, the NYPD, and the challenges of confronting police power. nplusonemag.com/online-only/…
“business schools don’t just reflect our economic system — they actively manufacture its priorities and normalize its harms, training the future leaders who will design and defend the structures driving our overlapping global crises” nytimes.com/2026/10/18/opini…
“The modern business school is designed to promote dealmaking, simplification and optimization. This mind-set has escaped containment and has spread to the wider world”
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Just released: the Imperial Entanglements of Policing, co-ed with @stschrader1 @DukePress
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So by this logic, I can write a report - using cherry picked evidence, uninformed interpretations & vibes - claiming that conservatives are bad sociologists, implying they should not be hired. If it's just for my Dean (though it's made public), it’s all good right? 1/3
New post on Wodtke's response to the Vanderbilt report. Questions of whether ideological scholarship is a problem and what should be done about it must be empirically informed, but they are not empirical questions. Invoking peer review standards is a category error. nextturtledown.substack.com/…
2 Or how about if I write a report for my Provost saying that “there are few conservatives in academia not because of discrimination but because of self-selection only” & I base my claim on cherry picked data. All good right? It’s just written for my Provost so all good?
Looking forward to this event Monday where we discuss our book.
Join us on Monday 10/19 at 5:30pm to celebrate the publication of Anticolonialism and Social Thought (@CambridgeUP 2025). Editors Anaheed Al-Hardan and Julian Go will be joined in conversation by contributors Arwa Awan and Ibrahim Khan events.humanitix.com/anticol…
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One of the studies often used to claim increasing left-wing bias in sociology doesn't really show that at all. My latest on Scatterplot: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/1…
“Those who profit from the status quo entertain a general suspicion of any intellectual independence”
-Max Horkheimer, “Traditional & Critical Theory”
Fall 2026 syllabi obtained by The Dallas Express show TCU graduate education courses focusing on “settler colonialism,” structural violence and decolonial thinking.
One of the courses is required for all Curriculum Studies students.
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Just released: the Imperial Entanglements of Policing, co-ed with @stschrader1 @DukePress
Read the intro follow link
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Sure. It’s the fault of universities that there are no more good jobs, that the cost of living is crazy high, and that wages are low.
This is fake news at its finest.
First off, we’re not ‘banning’ any program. The federal government doesn’t set curriculum or programs.
Here’s the truth: we are holding colleges accountable for leaving students worse off than if they never enrolled. Too many graduates report delaying major life milestones like buying a home or starting a family. Why? Because low return-on-investment programs saddled them with unmanageable debt that was never going to translate into a real-world job.
Federal student loans are not a welfare program for failing college programs. American students deserve education and training pathways that prepare them for the workforce – and transparency about programs that will never pay off.
“I've reviewed 100s of inequality papers in sociology….
I can recall very few papers as weak as Rubin's report by criteria of logical coherence, objectivity, and evidentiary standards.
The irony would be funny, if there wasn't so much at stake” K. Weeden
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The Vandy-Wash U report is beginning to look like what the Bush admin said about weapons of mass destruction: “we don’t have much evidence that Iraq has WMDs but we also don’t know that they don’t so I’m gonna invade anyway.”
Joseph Henrich’s 107-page report argues that anthropology is in “a recognized crisis,” driven in part by a split over advocacy, objectivity, and methods.
The AAA’s president rejects that claim: “There is no indication … that anthropology has eroded its standards.” chroni.cl/4jrembV
Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/0…
"If Rubin were actually sincere about not having sufficient evidence to make sweeping claims about the discipline, then she would not make such sweeping claims about the discipline. Yet she does. Over and over again" scatter.wordpress.com/2026/0…
The problem is not lack of data but rather that Rubin, misunderstands & misrepresents the data she has while failing to check her own biases, violating the very standards that she purports to defend while distracting us from the real problems osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/zy…
From mine: "While an informed, systematic, data-driven, logical and comprehensive analysis of sociology’s possible politicization should be welcomed, Rubin’s report is not one of them" osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/mn…
