MBS, LinkedIn, and the Business Ethics of Dismemberment
You can be kicked off of LinkedIn for all kinds of reasons: using a fake name or credentials; impersonating someone else; creating multiple personal accounts; sending mass connection requests to strangers; sending the same message to many people at once; promoting products or services in unsolicited DMs; bullying, threatening, or harassing another user; posting sexually explicit content; posting hate speech; and so on. Continue reading
Back in February, I wrote a post called “ICE Out of West Orange,” and sent it to the West Orange Town Council. I’m gratified to see that West Orange Councilwoman Joyce Rudin has endorsed a version of the proposal I made, and done so for the right reasons. I don’t know if my post had any influence on her or not; my point is that what she’s endorsing is exactly consistent with what I said. Continue reading
Soon after she took office, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill issued an Executive Order (EO-12) requiring that ICE officers have a warrant to enter “nonpublic areas of State property.” On March 19 of this year, however, NJ.com reported that New Jersey Transit “buses, trains and stations” remain open to ICE officers without the need for a warrant–on the grounds that buses, trains, and stations are public areas of State property, hence not covered by EO-12. Continue reading
Statement to Princeton Municipal Council
400 Witherspoon St
Princeton, New Jersey
April 13, 2026
Hi, my name is Irfan Khawaja; I live in Princeton.
Given the dearth of information we’ve gotten regarding this draft ordinance about public demonstrations, I, too, would like to put this issue into a wider context.
In May 2024, the University shut down Gaza Solidarity Encampment, had some people arrested, and shut Cannon Green down to “organized activity” for the first time in 250 years. It’s been closed for two years now, and there’s no indication of when, if ever, it will open. Continue reading
I just created a new Activist Interviews page to house the Activist Interviews series I began this past January. I’ve so far only posted one interview, the one I did with Emanuelle Sippy of Princeton University’s Alliance of Jewish Progressives. Forthcoming interviewees include Sireen Sawalha, Sadaf Jaffer, Aditi Rao, Ana Paola Pazmiño, various participants in Princeton’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment, and many more. Stay tuned.
Sponsored by Resistencia en Acción, Princeton, New Jersey
I’ve mentioned a few times that I split my time between Princeton and West Orange, New Jersey, which is why some of my activism focuses on the one place, and some on the other. West Orange High School has a JROTC Air Force program which it never tires of advertising. The High School recently advertised its Student Life Expo for Incoming Freshmen, to take place April 22. High school freshmen are typically students entering ninth grade, i.e., 14 or 15 years old. Among the student groups advertised for such students, under the rubric of “Honor Societies,” is “Kitty Hawk Air Honor Society (JROTC).”* Continue reading
The core idea of Hayek’s famous “The Use of Knowledge in Society” is the claim that prices act as signals that compress vast amounts of dispersed, rapidly-changing information into something that ground-level decisions-makers can use without knowing the underlying details. You don’t have to know anything about oil or gas production to know how much gasoline you can afford to put in your car, or how much driving you should do between paychecks, etc. Likewise, a gas station manager doesn’t have to know anything about geopolitics or warfare strategy or the Strait of Hormuz to know that a shortage is coming, and that he has to up the price of gas at his tank. The resulting reduction in epistemic burdens is supposed to be the great virtue of the free market pricing system. Continue reading
From the Hillsdale Current, News and Happenings from Hillsdale College, April 11, 2026:
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The minute I invoke the legacy of Mario Savio for a Princeton audience, I learn that just this past February, Christopher Eisgruber, the President of Princeton University, delivered two lectures in the Clark Kerr Lecture Series at Berkeley. “Kerr’s legacy,” Eisgruber tells us, “is extraordinary”; he led Berkeley through a “turbulent period” in its history. Meanwhile, Savio, the principal source of the turbulence, goes unmentioned. That figures.
There used to be a Mario Savio Memorial Lecture Series associated with a Mario Savio Young Activist Award. The organization involved was based in Guerneville, California, but is not (of course) formally connected with Berkeley. The last lecture was given in 2019; the organization itself now appears defunct. That figures, too.
Policy of Truth 