Chad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 28/03/2026The first advances for After the University just arrived 010
Reposted by Chad WellmonGreg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 25/03/2026The advances are in for AFTER THE UNIVERSITY: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work by @chadwellmon.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... @hopkinspress.bsky.social @univofvirginia.bsky.social 054
Reposted by Chad WellmonChad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025After the University…page proofs 65810
Chad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025I fell in that creek around 6am this morning. No gym but good snowy walk until that point. 000
Reposted by Chad WellmonChad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Coming soon www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...press.jhu.eduAfter the UniversityHigher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work 082
Chad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Coming soon www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...press.jhu.eduAfter the UniversityHigher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work 082
Chad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Incompetent malice…just, what? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...nytimes.comTrump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With HarvardAn official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization. 010
Chad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 11/04/2025I grew up near Hickory. This was my dad: 61, factory bought out, no pension, started at Lowes: “found work in service jobs that paid a fraction of factory wages, or left the labor force. Employment rates among men plummeted; rates of addiction, premature death soared. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...nytimes.comThe ‘China Shock’ Offers a Lesson. It Isn’t the One Trump Has Learned.Economists say the U.S. manufacturing decline in recent decades was not mainly about free trade, but about the pace of change without time to adjust. 010
Chad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 07/04/2025“Abductions by government agents; unexplained, indefinite detentions; the targeting of allegedly dangerous ideas—Jews have been here before and it does not end well for us.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-jewish-antisemitism-wesleyan.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare 000
Chad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 05/04/2025According to two **AEI** economists the Frump Team flubbed their formula: “the formula the administration relied on has no foundation in either economic theory or trade law.” www.aei.org/economics/president-tru… 020
Chad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025“Are we at the point where universities across the country must have presidents who are agreeable to President Trump or else risk calamitous cuts to their federal funding?” balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-ten… 020
Reposted by Chad WellmonLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 30/03/2025‘If the words in “Capital” become overly familiar they lose their revelatory power and become yet another veil that purports, paradoxically, not to be a veil.’ Peter E. Gordon on a new translation of Marx: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukPeter E. Gordon · Hair-splitting: Versions of MarxOne reason to welcome a new translation is that old terms and cadences tend to petrify: repeat a phrase often enough and... 1173
Chad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 26/03/2025On translating and thinking with Marx: “There is a fetishism of commodities, but there is also a fetishism of authors and original meanings. Thinking with Marx can often mean thinking against him, or even past him.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukPeter E. Gordon · Hair-splitting: Versions of MarxOne reason to welcome a new translation is that old terms and cadences tend to petrify: repeat a phrase often enough and... 010
Reposted by Chad WellmonAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 19/11/2024Here’s a recording of Chris’ amazing, deeply moving, and inspiring talk this afternoon on building a future for the humanities. So much to think about: m.youtube.com/watch?v=yVNc... 🗃️m.youtube.comWhat Are the Humanities For? Academic Thought After the Neoliberal UniversityYouTube video by UMassHistory 1511029
Chad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Not a good start to the day when you’re trying to get the kid to school but are late because you’re talking (yelling?) back to the madness on NPR as they interview Dartmouth president and boy was that crazy. 000
Chad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024The costs of our on-demand & cheap lifestyle…great, in-depth reporting here www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...nytimes.comThe Middlemen Linking Migrants in the U.S. to Your Shopping CartThe incoming Trump administration promises an immigration crackdown. But for years, the on-demand economy has been fueled by unscrupulous staffing agencies exploiting migrant workers. 000
Reposted by Chad WellmonChad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024They’re nationalizing McKinsey & Company and the whole damn consultancy model. 001
Chad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024They’re nationalizing McKinsey & Company and the whole damn consultancy model. 001
Chad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Whose democracy? “The Democrats bet that a desire to defend shared traditions, symbols of American democracy could transcend profound divides…America, as an ideal, was supposed to smooth over the contradictions. But “America” in this sense is over.” www.thedriftmag.com/editors-note...thedriftmag.comEditors’ NoteCountry Over Party 000
Chad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Brutal championship round finish to the fall season ends with pushups for many a missed sign. 000
Chad Wellmon @chadwellmon.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Ignore Yale Facism School on NPR & read Shenk: “Resistance politics is reactionary….The other side decides the terms of debate; it ends w/ finding yet another norm under assault, a new outrage to be tutted over, another institution that needs protecting” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/o...nytimes.comOpinion | This Rout Is an Opportunity for DemocratsResistance politics inevitably feels conservative. It’s reactionary in a literal sense, and this week, it ended in disaster for the Democrats. 010
