www.thenation.com/article/soci... Super excited to see this review of our book by Astra Taylor, who has been at the forefront of the revival of debtors activism in the US over the last decade.

The Radical Past and Future of Debt Resistance

The deep roots of debt relief activism in the United States.

The Department of Political Science at Northwestern University seeks applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Environmental Politics polisci.northwestern.edu/about/facult...

Faculty Searches: Department of Political Science - Northwestern University

americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/08/no-e... What went wrong with the Silicon Valley right - my new article for American Affairs.

No Exit Opportunities: Business Models and Political Thought in Silicon Valley - American Affairs Journal

It’s a rare buccaneer who runs a book club. But in October 2012, the chief administrator of the Silk Road drug market, under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts,” was on the dark web assigning reading...

www.nytimes.com/live/2024/08...

The swap is the latest use of hostage diplomacy tactics.

Today, @chloethurston.bsky.sociallpeproject.org/blog/can-per...

Can Personal Debt Mobilize Voters?

While recent conventional wisdom has held that it is futile to organize voters around debt relief, a longer view reveals that there is nothing inevitable about the lack of debtor mobilization.

Our book is here!

Fine interdisciplinary group of scholars at Vanderbilt talking about How the New Deal was Run, including @kevinmkruse.bsky.social@ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social@tomsugrue.bsky.social@masonbwilliams.bsky.social@angusburgin.bsky.sociallaw.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt-p...

Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator and History Department Examine How the New Deal Was Run

“How The New Deal Was Run,” a conference about the implementation of the New Deal programs that transformed American life from the 1930s on.

My new book is out! It's called Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers' Rights. www.russellsage.org/publications... A million thanks to the organizers and workers who generously shared their stories and insights with me, as well as to the many colleagues and students who helped along the way.

Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers’ Rights

Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers’ Rights comprehensively details alt-labor’s turn to policy and politics, provides compelling insights into the dilemmas the groups now face, and illuminates

After Claudine Gay's resignation, Rufo learned that plagiarism was a smear that he could use to attack scholars of race, no matter how flimsy the evidence. New, from me. Please share if you want people to understand the machinery behind these attacks. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/open-seaso...

Come join Dashun Wang and I (along with a bunch of other great researchers at the Center for Science of Science and Innovation! facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MTk0Ng== We are hiring multiple post-docs in computational social science!