- Support plunges for Proposition 30, which would prevent a devastating round of "trigger cuts" to public higher ed in California. You would think UC president Mark Yudof would make a strong case for supporting Prop 30. You would be wrong.
- In the 1990s, City College of San Francisco "rewrote the way the college was going to be governed": administrators were fired and faculty were put in positions of power. Now, supposedly to cut costs, the system of faculty leadership has been dismantled while a new "special trustee" with veto power as been hired for $1,000 a day plus a free car.
- Is student debt the choke point of finance capitalism?
- Pay gap makes student debt burden worse for women and elderly Americans burdened by student debt too
- University of Chicago as an engine of gentrification (cf. Andrew Ross on universities and the urban growth machine)
- The corporatization of higher education
- Peak tuition? Enrollments are dropping in part because colleges"may be pricing themselves out of the market"
- University administrators see the world differently than the rest of us: "The poll noted that the average debt load for college students who took out loans and graduated in 2010 was $25,250. Three-quarters of college leaders (74%) said they thought this was a reasonable amount of debt for a college degree."
- An account of sexual assault at Amherst College; Surviving, at Amherst College
- Stay calm: Some tips for keeping safe in times of state repression
- The Illuminati and why it spoke to me
- Breaking the silence on Indian inequality.
- The web as a source of medical knowledge.
- Fraud in the City.
- Will SOL make SEC enforcers SOL?
- On Schumpeterian and Keynesian waste.
- AutoDefame auto-da-fé in Japan; Euro privacy worries.
- Dubious dental business; the background.
- Snow crash at the hospital.
- SuperSad True Love Story on steroids.
- This pill for enlightenment; how about endarkenment, ala Scruton?
- Civilian impact of drones (PDF)
- US Drones Still Killing Children
- EFF and MuckRock file FOIA requests for info from police agencies interested in drones
- Drones, Dogs and the Future of Privacy
- Remote U.S. base at core of secret operations
- Cherokee County teen shot by police sniper, parents speak out
- Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America
- Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons
- The Encouraging Decline of Fake Colleges
- "Why Are We Surprised? Thoughts on Nigeria’s Past, Present and Future," video, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- 'Perplexed ... Perplexed': On Mob Justice in Nigeria
- The Continuing One Per Cent Hatred of Democracy
- Obama Defends His Finance Reform Record to Rolling Stone: A Brief Response
- The Progressive Case Against Obama
- The Malala Backlash
- A way to Survive: Some Autobiographical Reflections on Labor and Country Music
- The Least of All Possible Evils
- Muzzled by the Bots
- 'The Revenge of History: The Battle for the 21st Century'
- How the White House 'Kill List' Became the White House 'Disposition Matrix'
- Literature is not Data: Against the Digital Humanities
- Beyond the Welfare State
- Why Sandy Has Meteorologists Scared in 4 Images
- What would happen if you made a film about a key figure in Finnish history and cast Kenyan actors?
- "The digital and the physical are becoming one"
- "Design is one of the linchpins of capitalism, because it makes alienated labor possible"
- "My hologram rendered somehow less complete. A broken stream in the data mind"
- "Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world"
- "Facebook is broken, on purpose, in order to extract more money from users"
- "“Invisible Users” is one of the few texts explicitly dealing with the Internet that will not feel dated in five years"
- "Writing for a general audience, he said, was “a responsibility of scholars”
- "Given a city block, the challenge will be to excavate and present that information which the most people are curious about at the precise moment they walk through it"
- "Scrobbling might be “social,” but it’s not very personal"
- "Wikipedians may be their own worst enemy"
- "a Predator parked at the camp started its engine without any human direction, even though the ignition had been turned off and the fuel lines closed"
- "I would challenge the idea that trolls, and trolls alone, are why we can't have nice things online"
- "Memory on the Internet is both infinite and fleeting"
- "EDM lets listeners experience what feels like risk, and excess but is actually very tightly and carefully controlled"
- "In this climate, it gets hard to draw strict distinctions between living systems and mechanical ones"
- "A machine does far more than the task it performs. It is forged of historical moments, acts as a flash-point for contemporary questions, and always, inevitably, produces new cultures of its own"
