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Aaron Jakes

@aaronjakes.bsky.social
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Assistant prof at UChicago history. Working on a book about the Suez Canal and global inequality. Mediocre saxophonist but always striving for improvement.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The @aft.org was part of a coalition that successfully sued to stop this visa rule. Clearly the judge saw this attack on higher ed for what it is - an attempt by Trump to push a political agenda on colleges & universities, at the expense of research & education. www.highereddive.com/news/4-year-...
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4-year visa cap for international students halted by federal judge
U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor paused the highly contested rule just a day before it would have taken effect.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
speaking of Robert Kraft and concert venues, here's a footnote from a recent @aaronjakes.bsky.social piece www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/rev...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Not using social media tons for the time being, but everyone should read this takedown of one of the biggest rabbis in American Reform Judaism, which is really about the larger incoherence of supporting liberal pluralism in the US while opposing it in Israel. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/rev...
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The Right Reform Rabbi | Aaron Jakes
When Buchdahl professes that she can understand “how even white men in America are feeling,” she unwittingly reveals a structuring affinity between the politics of white reaction and her own anti-anti...
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Susan Jakes @susanjakes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For over a decade now, @aaronjakes.bsky.social and I have been contemplating with alarm and grief the way a place that shaped us both came to adopt positions that felt so alien and forsake values that seemed so fundamental. Hope you'll read this.
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Aaron Jakes @aaronjakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I wrote for @nplusonemag about Angela Buchdahl, head rabbi of the synagogue in which I was raised, and her role in helping to lead the Reform Jewish movement toward a seemingly limitless accommodation with the political right in both Israel and the US. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/rev...
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The Right Reform Rabbi | Aaron Jakes
When Buchdahl professes that she can understand “how even white men in America are feeling,” she unwittingly reveals a structuring affinity between the politics of white reaction and her own anti-anti...
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 07/08/2026
Excellent new issue coming soon, featuring @lclaberge.bsky.social, @cgvanderburg.bsky.social, Jack Norton, Mary Turfah, @dushkopetrovich.bsky.social, Chad Harbach, @walkercapl.bsky.social, @aaronjakes.bsky.social, and more! Subscribe now to read it as soon as it drops. www.nplusonemag.com/subscribe/
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Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The MESA Board of Directors has issued a statement condemning unlawful visa revocations and intimidation targeting international students and scholars. Read the full statement here: mesana.org/advocacy/let...
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