At the Blog
Since we missed you last Friday, let’s catch up on the past two weeks:
Last Monday, Jeff Gordon explained how industrial policy tends to create large concentrated winners, foreclosing the competition it ultimately needs to succeed. To escape this dilemma, he argues, the government must pursue an anti-entrenchment industrial policy.
Last Tuesday, we shared 15 of our favorite films exploring issues of law and political economy. For some crowd favs, check out the replies to this post.
Last Thursday, M. Sandhu swam against the current, explaining why it is a mistake to prioritize legislative primacy.
This Monday, Aslı Bâli argued that in this moment of deepening constitutional and geopolitical crises, the left must recover traditions that refuse to separate democracy at home from anti-imperialism abroad.
This Wednesday, R.H. Lossin explained how early-20th-century criminal syndicalism laws invoked “sabotage” and property protection to criminalize the IWW’s speech and organizing — a formula for anti-left repression that has proven durable and widely appealing.
In LPE Land
CFP Alert: Making and Breaking Worlds – Old and New Struggles in Law and Political Economy. The 2026 Conference of Australian Progressive Legal Studies – to be held on 3–4 December 2026 at RMIT in Melbourne – seeks to better understand the role of law in world-making experiments: progressive, radical and reactionary. Abstracts due by Friday, August 7.
Cool post-doc alert: Sam Bagg is hiring a 2-year postdoc (political theory or related) for a project on “Rethinking the Anti-Corruption Toolkit.” Soft deadline is today, but he will be reviewing applications for the next couple weeks, at least.
At the Roosevelt Institute, Diana Reddy has a new brief on preserving and strengthening employment as a social institution.
At the New York City Policy Forum, Luke Herrine explains how municipal financial empowerment programs can undermine, rather than reinforce, the power that banks hold over our lives
At Just Security, Lev Menand argues that the Court’s carveout for the Federal Reserve fails on its own terms.
On his substack, Beau Baumann is putting together his own LPE film series, so far featuring Harakiri and The Bridge Over the River Kwai.
