Category: Posts
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“Antisemitism” after terrorism in Boulder
The change that has come over the word “antisemitism” is itself unspeakable. My latest at Flaming Hydra: https://flaminghydra.com/issue-336/#antisemitism-and-the-unspeakable
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Tenure and antisemitism
Last week, I was granted tenure by my university. This moment, combined with the terrorist attack in Boulder, has had me thinking about the limits of what is unspeakable today, especially around the word “antisemitism.” https://nathanschneider.info/2025/06/antisemitism-and-the-unspeakable/
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Antisemitism and the Unspeakable
Originally appeared at Flaming Hydra. On September 12, 2001, Ward Churchill, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder (where I now teach) published an essay about the terrorist attack that had taken place in New York the day before. With the subtitle “On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,” Churchill compared the 9/11 catastrophe to…
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Solidarity and allyship
Just out from the Stanford Social Innovation Review—my essay on Sarah Schulman’s book on solidarity. Why that word matters so desperately right now, and why it is not the same as allyship: https://ssir.org/books/reviews/entry/the-fantasy-and-necessity-of-solidarity-review
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AI and popes named Leo
On AI and popes named Leo: https://theconversation.com/19th-century-catholic-teachings-21st-century-tech-how-concerns-about-ai-guided-pope-leos-choice-of-name-256645
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Protocological governance theory paper
A new paper out—not the easiest going, but an effort to theorize some of the dynamics of governance through protocols, with Johannes Bennke: https://doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10661
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Remembering Race Matthews
My favorite book on the legacy of Pope Leo XIII (the namesake of Leo XIV) is by the Australian politician Race Mathews—who realized that, to understand economic democracy, he had to get a theology degree: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/jobs-of-our-own Thank you, Race, and RIP: https://www.vic.gov.au/RaceMathews
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Against “god mode” government
Just published in America—why we need a politics that resists the aspirations of “god mode” sysadmins: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2025/05/14/trump-musk-sysadmin-king-250593
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Discarded “Thank You, Anarchy”
From the Internet Archive’s edition of my old book Thank You, Anarchy.
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The Protocol Oral History Project is out
I’m thrilled to share the release of some of my favorite interviews of my career—the Protocol Oral History Project. It explores wildly diverse kinds of protocols as a form of human governance, from state diplomacy to food in our guts: https://protocol.ecologies.info/