HISTORIES OF THE
PRESENT
commentary from daniel a. segal
on and in our moment
of genocide and fascism
“The
AAUP Errs in Endorsing Cait Conley for Congress,” Academe Blog, Oct. 26,
2026 (with 353 last words on the subject)
“Academic
Freedom and Democratic Governance for Learned Societies Too,” Academe Blog,
June 18, 2026
“A
College Football Championship in Our Time of Campus Repression,” Academe
Blog, Mar. 24, 2026.
“The
New AAUP-MESA Report on Our Moment’s Campus Repression,” Academe Blog, Nov.
14, 2025
“On
Higher Ed Boards of Trustees, a Preliminary Statement from the JVP Academic
Council,” Academe Blog, Oct. 3, 2025 (with Laura Goldblatt and Melissa
Levy)
“A
Plea to Senator Young: Let Gaza Live,” Sep 7, 2025, Indiana Daily
Student.
“It
Is Time to Censure Harvard and Time to Update the AAUP’s Censure Process,”
Academe Blog, Feb. 20, 2025.
“On
Campus—An Opera about Genocide in a Time of Genocide,” Academe Blog, Dec.
20, 2024.
“The
Obligation to Sell the AFT’s Israel Bond,” Academe Blog, July 18, 2024.
“The
AAUP’s Absolutist Antiboycott Policy Reexamined,” Academe Blog, Feb. 28,
2024.
“All of Them
Should Go,” Academe Blog, Feb. 5, 2024.
“Why,
as a Jew, I Oppose Indiana’s Bill Defining Antisemitism,” Indianapolis
Star, Jan 23, 2024.
“Your
Pension, Your Future, and Your Students’ Future,” (co-authored with Don
Nonini and Sheldon Pollock), Academe Blog, Dec. 12, 2023.
“Without
Apology—Academic Freedom and Campus Speech Rights for Anti-Zionist Students and
Faculty,” Academe Blog, Nov. 10, 2023.
Teach-in on Palestine in
Evansville, IN (Nov. 2, 2023; video).
“A Call to
Divest,” (co-authored with V. Casper, D. Hertzer, C. Levine, and Sheldon
Pollock), The New York Review of Books, April 20, 2023.
“In Conflating
Anti-Zionism with Antisemitism, Pomona Administrators Cause Several Harms,”
The Student Life, April 13, 2023.
“The
Seduction of Truthiness: A Response,” Los Angeles Review of Books,
May 15, 2022.
“Not
All Is Well That Ends Well,” Academe Blog, Nov. 3, 2021.
“An
Open Letter to Nine College Administrators United in Opposition to BDS,” Mondoweiss,
June 4, 2021.
“A
Trustee Exits Pitzer College,” Pink Tank Blog, May 3, 2021.
“A Veto against
a Just Peace for All in Palestine and Israel,” Mondweiss,
March 25, 2019.
“Why
Israel?” Inside Higher Ed, Jan. 20, 2019.
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