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The Epstein rot goes deep
America must now ask itself if it can restore a culture of shame

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Almost nothing makes my blood boil more than when a large powerful institution unfairly destroys someone’s reputation, and its principal reason for doing so is to minimize bad publicity in an effort to protect its own ‘reputation.’ Sadly, I have seen this occur in many academic…— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) January 2, 2026
How AI Destroys Institutions
Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies encourage cooperation and stability, while also adapting to changing circumstances. The real superpower of institutions is their ability to evolve and adapt within a hierarchy
Sustainability
The sustainable University – structures, individuals and questions around institutional transformation
One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein$dVol. 1
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Publisher's Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1) The Underworld -- 2) Booze and Blackmail -- 3) Organized Crime and the State of Israel -- 4) Roy Cohn's "Favor Bank" -- 5) Shades of Gray -- 6) A Private CIA -- 7) A Killer Enterprise -- 8) Clinton Contra -- 9) High Tech Treason -- 10) Government by Blackmail: The Dark Secrets of the Reagan Era -- Documents -- Index -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Back Cover

Entering the Age of Networks - Of Souls & Silos
Institutions are out, networks are in. What are the consequences, the perils and the promise? Originally published in The Orange County Register, March 5, 2015 Everyone’s interested in human networks these days. How to make them work, how to structure…

Cory Doctorow on Enshittification, with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel
Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It
People and institutions of civil society must coordinate against him.

Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty
The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty

Radical expectations: how the New Left changed economics
In the 1970s radical economists campaigned to reform their discipline and their universities. They became journalists and activists, moving beyond academia, to forge new models of public engagement and collaborative knowledge in economic life. Radical Expectations tells the story of how these economists set out to make economics more democratic. It traces their campaign to bring protest movements to the campuses, triggering the emergence of an alternative understanding of expertise directed at validating and empowering the perspectives and voices of women, Black Americans, labor activists, and the urban poor. It shows how a radical identity formed and how radicals helped reform disciplinary institutions. Furthermore, it argues that the radical economics' legacy was the development of a language and models of expert-lay collaboration that empowers direct action in economic affairs. The book is about the community of radical economists who championed the promise of change and what came of it

Norms of behavior? Shielding proven misconduct? Just because you burry it @maastrichtu.bsky.social, does not change the truth! Well, he (the dean) partly succeeded with his threats because my UK university indeed dismissed me.