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Jan 24, 2025 | 
verfassungsblog.de | William E. Scheuerman
Populist authoritarianism is a well-known global phenomenon. However, the US is the only so-called consolidated democracy where its ascent has been eased by the systematic dismantling of legal limits on campaign donations. US elections are now not only the world’s most costly, but they are also directly subject to the inordinate influence of wealthy individuals and corporations. The Supreme Court of the United States’ (SCOTUS) 2019 Citizens United v.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
verfassungsblog.de | William E. Scheuerman
How can we make sense of the return of Donald Trump, who again convinced enough US voters of his populist bonafides? Trump is already filling his cabinet with multimillionaires and billionaires, a group The Guardian characterizes as a “gallery of mega-rich backers [in] key positions that…will give them power to cut spending on public survives that are used by the mot poor and vulnerable” .Populist authoritarianism has made inroads around the world.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
heraldtimesonline.com | William E. Scheuerman
I am grateful for the H-T’s investigation of IU President Pamela Whitten’s rocky tenure and the sources of her unpopularity. But the situation is even worse than what the H-T reports. IU has had some great — and not-so-great — presidents. But anyone familiar with IU’s history will grasp why so many of us regretfully have concluded: Whitten belongs among our worst presidents ever.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
heraldtimesonline.com | William E. Scheuerman
The state’s GOP supermajority is fast-tracking a bill (SB-202) that threatens to destroy public higher education as we know it. Anyone who cares about Indiana’s public colleges and universities should worry.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | William E. Scheuerman
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
dissidentvoice.org | William E. Scheuerman
As a long-time leader in higher ed unionism, I was recently asked to comment on the transformative changes taking place in American higher education. To answer, I reflected on my nearly sixty years in higher education. I was a working-class kid from New York City who went to CCNY, where tuition was free. Yes, free. Free or low-cost tuition was the norm in American public colleges and universities in the 1960s. My expectations of college were probably typical of my generation.
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May 25, 2023 | 
znetwork.org | William E. Scheuerman |Sidney Plotkin |Liberties Law
Outrage continues over Justice Neil Gorsuch’s recent remarks that policy responses to COVID-19 may represent “the greatest intrusion of civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country.” Slavery, the historical exclusion of women and non-property owners from voting, Jim Crow, the abuses of the Red Scares and an infinite list of other violations of civil liberties are nothing to Gorsuch compared to asking people to wear masks and get vaccinations.
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May 24, 2023 | 
znetwork.org | Sidney Plotkin |William E. Scheuerman
Patty Chayefsky’s film Network, an acid-laced spoof of capitalist media, reaches its climax when Chairman Arthur Jensen, leader of the fictional mega-corporation CAA, thunders his disapproval to the crazed but wildly popular anchorman, Howard Beale.
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May 2, 2023 | 
znetwork.org | William E. Scheuerman
Another May Day has come and gone, and most Americans never noticed. It wasn’t always like this. In decades past, thousands of workers of different ages, ethnicities and genders celebrated the first of May by marching in support of worker rights. Workers traditionally wore red on May Day to show unity in their struggle against the power of capital and to remember the blood shed by thousands of workers in the struggle for human dignity.
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Apr 25, 2023 | 
znetwork.org | Liberties Law |William E. Scheuerman
Better not knock on the wrong door or drive into the wrong driveway, you may get shot. Kids are afraid to go to school for fear of getting killed, as the body count from mass shootings climbs every day. Hate crimes are increasing, and just driving to work is potentially dangerous. Think of tailgaters honking their horns and flipping you the bird as they speed past. Politicians address these issues by calling for gun safety legislation, increasing the number of police, and so on.
