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I pass along the announcement of three feature essays in Academe's upcoming Special Issue: "What is Academic Labor Now?" This from the press release:
The December Academe newsletter offers a preview of our forthcoming special issue, “What Is Academic Labor Now?,” edited by Alissa Karl of the State University of New York College at Brockport. The issue will be published in full in February 2026.
FEATURES
The Underclass Is in Session
Teaching, research, and service in a vastly unequal academy.
By David A. Banks
How Academic Workers Have Reenergized the Labor Movement
The demographic reconfiguration and ideological reorientation of academic labor.
By Gary Rhoades
This Is Not the "New McCarthyism"—It's Worse
A shameful new chapter in the University of California’s history.
By John McCumber
Links to additional contributions follows below. It is only now that both the lamentation for what might have been lost and the calls to action to save that which is no longer viable brings a bit of sadness to the season. But this was a long time coming and represents one manifestation of the trajectories of resolution to the several vectors of contradiction that had become part of the structural landscape of post-secondary education for decades now. Agree or not, the authors bring a perspective that is worth considering as one sharpens one's own analysis, and with it engages in the values that values that drive that analysis.
BOOK REVIEWS
Academic Freedom's Uneven First Amendment Path
Anil Kalhan reviews Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right by David M. Rabban.
Why Human Work Still Matters as AI Advances
Leslie Taylor reviews More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI by John Warner.
COLUMN
State of the Profession: The Hijacking of Antidiscrimination Law
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Reeling in the Years
The history of the oldest graduate student union in the country teaches how to fuse bread-and-butter issues and social justice.
By Daniel Czitrom
FROM THE BLOG
Don’t Believe the AI Hype
By Jonathan Rees
One Way to Think About Why the Law Won’t Save Us
By Jennifer Ruth
An Academic Freedom Outrage at Texas A&M
By John Warner
What Retrenchment Taught Me About Staying
By Rachel Bouvier
The Three-Legged Stool
By Yasha Hartberg
A Tale of Two Compacts
By Shawn Gilmore
Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Fakery
By David Pickus and Robert Niebuhr
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