Undisciplined: Notes on Carceral Academia

From the Warscapes archives: Mahmood Mamdani interview from 2013

Zohran Mamdani's exciting win in New York City has sparked an interest in my conversation with his father, the scholar Mahmood Mamdani, from over 12…

Nov 20, 2025 • Radical Books Collective

7. The Repression of Palestine on American Campuses: Featuring Maura Finkelstein

Anthropologist Maura Finkelstein had always incorporated Palestine in her university teaching and felt that, as an anti-Zionist, Jewish American…

Jul 14, 2025 • Radical Books Collective

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"With Gaza, we are beyond the breaking point." - Huda Fakhreddine

Scholar of Arabic literature Huda Fakhreddine on being vilified at congressional hearings, UPenn's cowardice, and the racism of literature departments…

Jul 7, 2025 • Radical Books Collective

UCop: A Small Town Tale of Big Cop Ambitions

Actual policing and administrative policing are two sides of the same coin at UConn's rural campus as the intersecting violence toward pro-Palestine…

May 24, 2025 • Radical Books Collective

Carceral academia

American universities might seem to be going overboard with violent cops, student arrests, and criminalizing protest but academia has always been a…

Mar 10, 2025 • Radical Books Collective

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