At the Blog
On Monday, Salomé Viljoen argued that the tech arm of Trump 2.0 isn’t just reshaping government — it’s consolidating control over the data infrastructure that makes modern governance possible. By centralizing data flows and gutting public information systems, DOGE is building the machinery for a new era of authoritarianism.
On Tuesday, Kelly Grotke explained how universities’ misguided responses to the 2008 financial crisis laid the foundation for the current financial and social crisis in higher education.
And on Thursday, Isaac Kamola examined the role of dark money organizations in manufacturing recent campus free speech crises and in promoting a one-size-fits-all approach to campus speech.
In LPE Land
Cool CFP alert: The Labor Lab at the Center for Political Economy, Columbia University, and Cornell ILR School invite submissions for the Political Economy of Work Junior Scholars Workshop to be held at Columbia University on December 5-6, 2025. Participants will receive feedback and career advice from senior scholars, including Kate Andrias, Brishen Rogers, Hiba Hafiz, Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Suresh Naidu, and Adam Reich. Abstracts due by Sept. 15, via this form, and more information can be found on this website.
The Journal of Law and Political Economy released a new special issue looking at the intersection of corporate and securities law and climate change.
At Balkinization, Katharina Pistor and David Pozen argue that if Columbia is going to review its University Senate, the same scrutiny should be applied to the more powerful, less democratic components of Columbia’s governance regime.
On his must-read substack, Adam Bonica makes the empirical case for Democrats rejecting mega-donor money.
In the Harvard Law Review, Ben Dinovelli has a hot new note: The Federal Reserve’s Forgotten Credit Mandate.
At Notice & Comment, Nathaniel Donahue answers the question keeping you up at night: What Does Humphrey’s Executor Mean?
On SSRN, Katharine Jackson has posted a review of Lenore Palladino’s new book, Good Company: Economic Policy After Shareholder Primacy.
In Dissent, Fred Block reviews Brian Judge’s Democracy in Default: Finance and the Rise of Neoliberalism in America and Michael McCarthy’s The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It).
