Archive for September 2025
Demosthenes: A Conversation with James Romm
In Demosthenes: Democracy’s Defender, James Romm tells the tragic story of ancient Greece’s last democratic leader. In this Q&A, we talk with the author about his writing process and what today’s world leaders can learn from Demosthenes’ successes and failures. How do you, as a historian, ensure that you objectively cover all aspects of a historical figure, equally portraying both…Read More
A Lesson from Tacitus and Thomas Jefferson
One of the great passages from Roman history comes right at the beginning of Book One of Tacitus’ Annals, where he is discussing how Augustus seized power and ended the Republic for good. When after the destruction of Brutus and Cassius there was no longer any army of the Commonwealth, when Pompeius was crushed in Sicily, and when, with Lepidus pushed…Read More
What’s Going to Happen at Quantico?
Every day under the fascist regime is worse than the last, meaning that every day for the foreseeable future will be the worst day of our lives. This will never be clearer than on this coming Tuesday when Donald Trump travels to the military base in Quantico, Virginia. While there he will meet with virtually every top commanding general and…Read More
Congressional Republicans Want to Shut Down the Government Instead of Keeping Your Healthcare Costs Low
Have you heard the federal government is on the brink of shutting down again? Moments like this can be confusing. But let’s be perfectly clear about what’s happening here: Republicans are so hell-bent on jacking up costs and taking away health care from millions of working people, that they are willing to shut down the government to do so. Millions…Read More
Democracy Alliance Statement
September 25, 2025 Amid today’s reports of politically motivated attacks on Open Society Foundations, the Democracy Alliance issued the following statement: The reported efforts by the Department of Justice to draft plans to investigate the Open Society Foundations are straight out of the authoritarian playbook. This is more than an attack on one organization, it is a plan to give…Read More
Choosing the Right Frame and Its Effects on Public Policy
Barry Schwartz and Richard Schuldenfrei— The COVID epidemic knocked the whole world for a loop. Different nations responded to it differently, as did different regions within the United States. Did we handle it well here in America? Did we handle all of it well? How should we go about trying to answer these questions? President Trump has imposed and threatened…Read More
Trump’s Proclamation Setting a $100,000 Fee for the Entry of H1-B Visa Holders to the U.S. rests on Debatable Foundations
[ad_1] The claimed authority in the Proclamation on “Restriction On Entry Of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers” for the $100,000 immigration fee on H1-B visa holders is 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f) and 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f). Here are the relevant bits of those two code sections: 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f) (f) Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President Whenever the…Read More
“No Guernicas, no sacred places”: On the closure of Meanjin
Australia’s literary culture depends for its life on its journals. Literary journals are not just clearing houses for pithy snatches of commentary and readable middlebrow fiction — they’re incubators for successive generations of literary talent. One need only consider how many published novelists in this country have secured those deals on the back of work published in journals, and how…Read More
Where the envoy’s Islamophobia Report fails Muslims
Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, released his report, entitled A National Response to Islamophobia, last week. Below is where I believe it has failed Australian Muslims. The post Where the envoy’s Islamophobia Report fails Muslims appeared first on Overland literary journal. Source link overland.org.auRead More
Looking Back, and Forward
[ad_1] On this day back in 2003 I decided to start blogging. I though thefore today would be a good time to repost the first serious blog post I ever made, even though it only appeared after about a week. “Rose Burawoy, Political Scientist” was written in the shadow of the Bush administration’s decision to create and populate the prison…Read More