As President Trump continues to attack media organizations and journalists, we speak with a sitting member of the Federal Communications Commission about how the administration has weaponized the FCC ...

February 19, 2026Greetings from the Swamp.Ever since Florida became ground zero for the attacks against public higher education roughly five years ago, many misconceptions circulate regarding how acad...

January 2, 2026Greetings from the Swamp. As the new year takes hold, the attacks against public higher education continue. Those with their student loans in default could face having their wages garni...

October 13, 2025Greetings from the Swamp. I bike to the beach in a weekly attempt to temporarily clear my mind of the increasing political tumult that has swept over our swamp and increasingly engulfs...

Conservative critics and commentators like Ben Shapiro are complaining about, and misunderstanding, Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another."

We speak with the acclaimed filmmakers Raoul Peck and Alex Gibney about their latest documentary, Orwell: 2+2=5, which explores the life and career of George Orwell and why his political writing remai...

September 22, 2025Greetings from the Swamp!This past week finds us confronting two related onslaughts against public education. UC Berkeley, home of the free speech movement in the 1960s, recently sha...

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

Deans and department heads at the University of Oregon are under mounting pressure to identify budget cuts amidst a university wide budget deficit. The cuts have led to multiple rounds of layoffs in r...

August 19, 2025Greetings from the Swamp.As our semester begins at Swamp University, we learn our campus police have formally signed the 287(g) agreement that makes them proxies for U.S. Immigration an...

Florida's public universities are entering into unprecedented partnerships with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the 287(g) program. Join us as we discuss the rights that university fac...

As of July 24, FAU PD has partnered with ICE in the 287(g) program. This allows FAU PD to conduct immigration enforcement during routine police duty, including "**the power and authority to arrest wi...

July 31, 2025Greetings from the swamp.I had to take brief respite from my blog duties to escape the tropical heat, which can melt your mind to such an extent that it could turn someone MAGA if left un...

This paper argues how postcolonial melancholia, as defined by Paul Gilroy, haunts attempts within Belfast to use public art to move past the trauma from the Troubles and colonialism’s lingering imp...

Florida Democratic Congressmember Maxwell Frost joins us to discuss how he observed horrific conditions in Florida’s new immigration detention jail in the Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” wh...

Spinal Tap has come to be recognized as England’s loudest and most punctual band. In the legendary rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, now beautifully restored, Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), David St...

Dispatch #6: Cinema Solidarity and the Politics of Popular Culture

Watching Holly Pereira maneuver her way onto a construction site is a masterclass of Dublin-charm. Holly is a member of the Minaws, an all-female street art collective that formed in Dublin in 2013 wh...

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June 2, 2025Greetings from the Swamp.We face unprecedented attacks against workers at all levels as waves of reactionary populist attacks have swept the globe and the United States over the last few y...

May 17, 2025Greetings from the Swamp.Recently, The New York Times released a short documentary about three Yale professors, who are experts in authoritarianism, fleeing the United States to take up po...

May 6, 2025Greetings from the swamp.Being a film scholar and horror aficionado, I couldn’t help but associate images of Elon Musk wielding a chainsaw over his head with that of Leatherface, the iconic...

28 April 2025Greetings from Swamp U. On 7 March 2025, Christopher Rufo, one of the central polemicists against critical race theory had a revealing interview with The New York Times conservative opini...

Robin Goodman, Jordan Scott, Katie Rainwater, Chris Robé, and Nicole Erin Morse on the authoritarian threat to higher education You can read about their work here: https://english.fsu.edu/faculty/robi...

22 April 2025Greetings from the land of broken conquistador dreams, which litter our landscape like the over-priced, unsold houses that line our streets. The swindle is our state's motto as the Marx b...

His executive order faulted an exhibit which “promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct,” a widely held position in the scientific community.