Reposted by Henry BerlinTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026in retrospect, letting people who hate society and social life run society and dictate the shape of social life was a stupid thing to do 1599
Henry Berlin @berlihe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Find answers in my article in the latest issue of New Literary History, "Jordi de Sant Jordi, Ausiàs March, and the Ends of Contradiction"! (2/2) newliteraryhistory.org/current-issue/newliteraryhistory.orgCurrent Issue – New Literary History 021
Henry Berlin @berlihe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026You have questions about skepticism toward contradiction as a source of pleasure, knowledge, and salvation in late-medieval poetry. (1/2) 020
Reposted by Henry BerlinAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026Put differently: how can a conservative movement that has worked diligently for decades to defund public higher ed, commercialize research, undermine the labor movement, and attack the study of culture as "woke" possibly have anything useful to say about the future of the American university? 07616
Reposted by Henry BerlinAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026The Cornell report on the Future of the American University is a disaster, mainstreaming and endorsing profoundly reactionary right-wing diagnoses of higher education that have no business in a serious report on what higher ed is or should become. 719049
Reposted by Henry BerlinAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026Checking in on how things are going over at the Chronicle Against Higher Education: 21519122
Henry Berlin @berlihe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Faster" is not among my top goals for my teaching 1164
Reposted by Henry BerlinSherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t. 38591562864
Reposted by Henry BerlinNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I converted to Catholicism last week. Here’s what the Sermon on the Mount gets wrong. 311887301
Reposted by Henry Berlindrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 20/08/2026"you have to admit, AI is useful for--" no i don't. no one needs to hold the devil's pitchfork and think of what it could poke 11255245
Reposted by Henry BerlinTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I regret to inform you that these traditional college courses in AI are indistinguishable from the classrooms I sat in at for-profit colleges 15 years ago. Centralized curriculum & branding, technological control, “virtual” libraries, & bureaucratic alienation of labor. 31059198
Reposted by Henry BerlinLiverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Celebrating Catalan Review volume 40! 🎉 This issue features the special section "After Literature", exploring contemporary uses of the Catalan canon. Available #OpenAccess via #S2O 🔗 bit.ly/CATR-Vol-40 @wviestenz.bsky.social @berlihe.bsky.social @neuspenalba.bsky.social @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social 065
Reposted by Henry BerlinTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/07/2026A huge part of being an undergrad is *discovering* ways of thinking and experiencing the world that are outside of all their expectations and understandings. Boiling our offerings down to a homogenous sludge of career-oriented boilerplate is the polar opposite of that. 213125
Reposted by Henry BerlinTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/07/2026We’ve been on a 10 year run of colleges shutting down their most unique and valuable departments in favor of bland templated programs that they offer vacuous, mediocre versions of to students who just assume college has always been vacuous and mediocre in this manner. 429875
Reposted by Henry BerlinDavid Leask @leaskyd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I am not sure that we appreciate how much hostility there is from the far right to the learning and speaking of languages. 1/2 www.thetimes.com/article/9a33...thetimes.comLanguage centre closes after ‘far-right intimidation’The director of the Language Hub in Glasgow claimed the premises were no longer safe for staff after a ‘surveillance’ campaign by anti-migration activists 16367186
Reposted by Henry BerlinDavid J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 16/07/2026OMG DHS appears to say that it will apply this rule about changing majors to ADDING a major, telling students who need double majors to "plan ahead and enroll in both at the same time." These people are intent on killing America's university system. They are not this stupid. 523557
Reposted by Henry BerlinDavid J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The most anti-legal immigrant administration ever just made it illegal for international students to transfer schools or change majors or shift any "educational objective" in their 1st year and for graduate students **at any point** ever, at all. There is no legal basis for this 19987429
Reposted by Henry BerlinAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026They are clearly planning on trotting out some kind of AI agents to replace teachers entirely, and need teachers to train their products, but everyone has tech FOMO so we're all doomed anyway 110139
Reposted by Henry BerlinLiverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 01/07/2026🎉 Catalan Review turns 40! Read Editor William Viestenz's reflections on the journal's history and explore a specially selected collection of archive articles, free to read for a limited time. 🔗 bit.ly/CATR-40 @wviestenz.bsky.social @berlihe.bsky.social @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social #Catalan 055
Reposted by Henry BerlinElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win. 9268982497
Reposted by Henry BerlinAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 12/06/2026You know how this is going to go at the @nytimes.com, right? Ross Douthat is going to do an "Interesting Times" episode with Appiah and Wilentz; then David French, Ezra Klein, & Bret Stephens will write separate columns telling never-Trumpers, liberals, and neocons to take the report seriously. 1528
Reposted by Henry Berlinceej @ceej.online · 09/06/2026“having money on the line enforces clarity” I saw the saddest man I’ve ever seen lose $5000 on a single hand of blackjack at a casino in turtle lake, wisconsin 829224
Reposted by Henry Berlinceej @ceej.online · 09/06/2026just from a pure layman’s perspective, the entire concept behind betting markets as an accurate predictor seems stupid as hell. what does the fact that 77% of degenerates were stupid enough to bet on something impossible tell me other than they’re really stupid and/or addicted to gambling 25744108
Reposted by Henry BerlinGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/06/2026We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists. 3047191647
Reposted by Henry BerlinErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Every time we hear about how genAI has pushed another teenager to suicide, another person into committing a mass shooting, or generated CSAM of school girls used to blackmail their schools, remember we were told that what we'd be hearing about is a cure to every cancer, and global poverty itself 121720657
Reposted by Henry Berlinutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 11/05/2026What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying 4747711858
Reposted by Henry BerlinTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 09/05/2026another way to look at it is that if you are indeed the product of the tech installed around you, you are being fashioned to be as devoid of independent intelligence as practicable AI in the classroom is obviously part of this 1123
Reposted by Henry BerlinProPublica @propublica.org · 07/05/2026NEW: ProPublica identified at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during Trump’s historic immigration crackdown.propublica.orgTrump’s Immigration Crackdown Has Harmed Scores of Kids With Tear Gas, Pepper SprayIn several cities, judges have chastised federal officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.” 5716401000
Reposted by Henry BerlinI support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Oh no, continued 814021
Henry Berlin @berlihe.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Many thanks to Núria Silleras-Fernández for including me in this special issue of eHumanista on pleasure and pain in the medieval and early modern Iberian world -- and in such good company! www.ehumanista.ucsb.edu/volumes/66ehumanista.ucsb.edueHumanista Volume 66 | eHumanista - UC Santa Barbara 030
Reposted by Henry BerlinTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone 14451701635
Reposted by Henry BerlinPhillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 22/02/2026The way Altman talks about parenting is really revealing I think. Whether it's sales pitch or deep rooted philosophy, the ordinary tasks of living and working are just too unfathomably hard to imagine trying to do. They want you to conceive of the labor that makes you a person as impossible. 0122
Reposted by Henry BerlinEunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub... 25929261730
Henry Berlin @berlihe.bsky.social · 17/02/2026muse.jhu.edu/issue/55472muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE - La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures-Volume 52, Number 2, Spring 2024 000
Henry Berlin @berlihe.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I'm very grateful to Emily C. Francomano, Sol Miguel-Prendes, and @albertlloret.bsky.social for their thoughtful responses to _Alone Together_ in the latest issue of La corónica. It's hard to express the feeling of being read with such sensitivity and critical acumen. I learned a lot about my book! 162
Reposted by Henry Berlinjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2026i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions 1013691656
Reposted by Henry BerlinPaul Kane @pkcapitol.bsky.social · 14/02/2026The stories weren’t played together on A1, but they probably should’ve been. We’ve come a long way as a planet from the Arab spring days when tech bros touted themselves as harbingers of freedom. 116260
Reposted by Henry BerlinCooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social 598235498219
Reposted by Henry BerlinHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 09/02/2026At this point, we should treat almost all the media coverage about AI consciousness, ethical consequence, personhood etc as downstream from AI corporate marketing and comms efforts. It’s all they have since the gloss wore off the initial excessive claims. 27118
Reposted by Henry BerlinSame Sad Echo @samesadecho.bsky.social · 08/02/2026give me the ferments and free my soul I’m only eatin yogurt at the super bowl I’m RFK 302666526
Reposted by Henry BerlinMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation: 150148288313
Reposted by Henry BerlinJohn Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Instead of just outright banning killer robots in the classroom, we should be having discussions about the *ethical use* of killer robots 03010
Reposted by Henry BerlinGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society. How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”? 14161102080
Reposted by Henry BerlinJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/01/2026An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought. 1771352551