At the Blog
On Monday, Matthew Dimick argued that while antitrust may promise to tame corporate power, it leaves untouched the deeper logic of capitalism that compels production for profit’s sake. The latest in our mini-series on Marxism and Antitrust.
On Wednesday, G.S. Hans described the alarming escalation of attacks on legal clinics by the federal government, and explains how clinical faculty and their allies can resist this political interference.
In LPE Land
Cool fellowship alert: the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator is now accepting applications for a fellow in the field of networks, platforms, and utilities (including transportation, energy, communications, banking/finance, tech platforms), which will reviewed on a rolling basis. More information can be found at this link: Vanderbilt NPU Law Fellowship.
Over at Phenomenal World, Cea Weaver offers a primer on housing politics in New York City.
On their substack, the Debt Collective explains the threat that municipal debt poses to the Mamdani administration. For more on the perils of municipal debt, see our series on Destin Jenkins’ Bonds of Inequality.
In the New York Times, Sam Moyn argues that we need to make congress great again. We have some ideas.
In the Michigan Law Review, Sandeep Dhaliwal reviews Anthony Gregory’s New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State.
A new report released by the American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association offers the first systematic empirical study of government investigations and private lawsuits against US colleges and universities alleging antisemitism under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. (Darryl Li previewed some of these findings in our series on weaponizing antidiscrimination law).
On the hit podcast Death Panel, Bench Ansfield discusses “riot prone areas,” moral hazard, how landlords burned the Bronx in the 1970s, and their new book, Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City.
In Mother Jones, Pema Levy offers a political economic reading of the Supreme Court’s tariff case.
On his substack, Nicholas Mulder explains why Trump’s use of economic coercion has been more effective against allies than adversaries.
