Sben Korsh
@sbenkorsh.bsky.social
University of Michigan PhD Candidate and Student Associate at the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics. Writing a dissertation on how architecture firms, schools, and associations were socially conserved while economically liberalized since the 1970s.
Awaiting some news, so logging back-in to bolster up; it’s so nice to know and be known by you on these here interwebs.
October 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Awaiting some news, so logging back-in to bolster up; it’s so nice to know and be known by you on these here interwebs.
FYI the answer is yes! He concludes:
"Neoliberalism remains the best way to describe the political and economic order of post-1960s America."
Volcker and Nader's Raiders were elite Ivy League liberal capitalists — not leftists. Historicism will not save us. Clarity will. More trade books, please!
"Neoliberalism remains the best way to describe the political and economic order of post-1960s America."
Volcker and Nader's Raiders were elite Ivy League liberal capitalists — not leftists. Historicism will not save us. Clarity will. More trade books, please!
Today, @henrymjtonks.bsky.social reviews @mehrsab.bsky.social's *The Quiet Coup,* an account of the neoliberal era that touches on everything from empire to civil rights to campaign finance and antitrust.
The Whole Equation: Can “Neoliberalism” Explain Everything?
In The Quiet Coup, Mehrsa Baradaran takes the conversation about neoliberalism beyond the realm of economics, focusing instead on legal revolutions, the conservative reaction to the Civil Rights…
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December 18, 2024 at 6:19 PM
FYI the answer is yes! He concludes:
"Neoliberalism remains the best way to describe the political and economic order of post-1960s America."
Volcker and Nader's Raiders were elite Ivy League liberal capitalists — not leftists. Historicism will not save us. Clarity will. More trade books, please!
"Neoliberalism remains the best way to describe the political and economic order of post-1960s America."
Volcker and Nader's Raiders were elite Ivy League liberal capitalists — not leftists. Historicism will not save us. Clarity will. More trade books, please!
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I am beyond excited to be in the current issue of @criticalinquiry.bsky.social with my research on László Moholy-Nagy's occupational therapy work with veterans ... ping me if you need a gift link! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
www.journals.uchicago.edu
December 18, 2024 at 5:15 PM
I am beyond excited to be in the current issue of @criticalinquiry.bsky.social with my research on László Moholy-Nagy's occupational therapy work with veterans ... ping me if you need a gift link! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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the grift will continue until the consultancies and ed-tech partners have destroyed every.single.public.university.
"$51 million dollars. That’s how much money the UW System paid Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group between 2019 and 2023."
www.wortfm.org/uw-system-sp...
"$51 million dollars. That’s how much money the UW System paid Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group between 2019 and 2023."
www.wortfm.org/uw-system-sp...
UW System spends millions on consultants - WORT-FM 89.9
The UW System paid Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group $51 million between 2019 and 2023, WORT found through an open records request.
www.wortfm.org
December 17, 2024 at 2:44 AM
the grift will continue until the consultancies and ed-tech partners have destroyed every.single.public.university.
"$51 million dollars. That’s how much money the UW System paid Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group between 2019 and 2023."
www.wortfm.org/uw-system-sp...
"$51 million dollars. That’s how much money the UW System paid Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group between 2019 and 2023."
www.wortfm.org/uw-system-sp...
Left the Black Student Union’s rally to protect DEI.
Less than a block away, overhear a white student talking about his family’s upcoming Christmas ski trip in Utah.
Less than a block away, overhear a white student talking about his family’s upcoming Christmas ski trip in Utah.
December 5, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Left the Black Student Union’s rally to protect DEI.
Less than a block away, overhear a white student talking about his family’s upcoming Christmas ski trip in Utah.
Less than a block away, overhear a white student talking about his family’s upcoming Christmas ski trip in Utah.
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So we've banned diversity statements -- I don't actually like them much myself (read the damned work to know where someone stands intellectually and ethically), but the write-up in the house propaganda organ is hilarious, as usual. record.umich.edu/articles/uni...
University sets policy on diversity statements | The University Record
record.umich.edu
December 5, 2024 at 1:22 PM
So we've banned diversity statements -- I don't actually like them much myself (read the damned work to know where someone stands intellectually and ethically), but the write-up in the house propaganda organ is hilarious, as usual. record.umich.edu/articles/uni...
Today, the University of Michigan's admin unilaterally announced the elimination of diversity statements in faculty hiring. The Regents are rumored to vote this afternoon to dismantle the university's DEI programs. The Black Student Union has called a rally outside the President's House at 2:30pm.
December 5, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Today, the University of Michigan's admin unilaterally announced the elimination of diversity statements in faculty hiring. The Regents are rumored to vote this afternoon to dismantle the university's DEI programs. The Black Student Union has called a rally outside the President's House at 2:30pm.
I want to collaborate with a tech-talented person to create an online tool that generates mad lib-style bios for academic architects. The bios will regurgitate the same few schools, institutions, fellowships, and foundations. The purpose is to critique the elite and closed culture of the field.
December 5, 2024 at 5:37 PM
I want to collaborate with a tech-talented person to create an online tool that generates mad lib-style bios for academic architects. The bios will regurgitate the same few schools, institutions, fellowships, and foundations. The purpose is to critique the elite and closed culture of the field.
Friends across the country are really going through it.
The capitalist insurance and pharmaceutical industries have made a mockery of mental health.
CBT and DBT have gaslit everyone.
Trying to get folks connected with their local psychoanalytic institutes.
The capitalist insurance and pharmaceutical industries have made a mockery of mental health.
CBT and DBT have gaslit everyone.
Trying to get folks connected with their local psychoanalytic institutes.
November 27, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Friends across the country are really going through it.
The capitalist insurance and pharmaceutical industries have made a mockery of mental health.
CBT and DBT have gaslit everyone.
Trying to get folks connected with their local psychoanalytic institutes.
The capitalist insurance and pharmaceutical industries have made a mockery of mental health.
CBT and DBT have gaslit everyone.
Trying to get folks connected with their local psychoanalytic institutes.
I read on twitter that this place is like a nonprofit happy hour.
Thought it was hilarious tbh.
Jokes on me tho, I’ve only ever worked at nonprofits 😭
Thought it was hilarious tbh.
Jokes on me tho, I’ve only ever worked at nonprofits 😭
November 20, 2024 at 6:24 AM
I read on twitter that this place is like a nonprofit happy hour.
Thought it was hilarious tbh.
Jokes on me tho, I’ve only ever worked at nonprofits 😭
Thought it was hilarious tbh.
Jokes on me tho, I’ve only ever worked at nonprofits 😭
Most academics are organic intellectuals of liberal capitalism
October 19, 2023 at 4:48 PM
Most academics are organic intellectuals of liberal capitalism