At the Blog
On Monday, Luke Herrine explained how the neoliberal era in higher education laid the groundwork for the recent authoritarian turn.
On Tuesday, Beau Baumann grappled with a fundamental challenge for the post-Trump era: to re-build state capacity requires a government that is seen as legitimate, yet it is precisely the erosion of administrative legitimacy that has enabled Trump to carry out his deconstructive agenda.
And on Thursday, Matthew Dimick explained why one of the most famous law and econ arguments for addressing inequality exclusively through taxation fails on its own terms. The scope for predistribution is thus much larger than neoliberal thought and modern economic theory allow.
In LPE Land
Cool event alert: On Wed., Oct. 15th from 2:30-3:45pm, Rutgers LPE will host a conversation on “The Case for the Tenant Union,” featuring Tara Raghuveer, director of the Tenant Union Federation, and Greg Baltz, co-director of the Rutgers Housing Justice & Tenant Solidarity Clinic. All are invited to join, either in person in Newark or over Zoom. Register here.
For insightful reflections on Trump’s Compact, check out Joey Fishkin over at Balkinization, Genevieve Lakier over at Divided Argument, and Henry Farrell at the New York Times.
At the Roosevelt Institute, Rachel Funk Fordham has a new report on Citizens United and the Decline of US Democracy: Assessing the Decision’s Impact 15 Years Later.
At the eponymous Sanjukta Blog, Sanjukta Paul has a new draft essay, Law & the Self-Coordinating Market Idea.
Apparently we’re not the only people thinking about socialism and antitrust? Over at the American Prospect, Ryan Cooper offers a Socialist Case for Antitrust.
Our friends at the People’s Party Project have a new report, “No Kings: the Urgent Need for Court Reform,” which analyzes the outcomes of the 389 cases challenging Trump Administration actions filed in federal court between January 2025 and September 1, 2025.
