“Coach tactics of intimidation, coercion, and bullying in college sports are vast, and, we argue, core to the institution’s #culture of control and discipline over exploited players.”

#coaching #leadership #management #institutions

https://www.publicbooks.org/its-just-scary-abuse-and-power-in-college-football/

The lifecycle of Rome was: Republic, Empire, then a millennia of Theocratic State, before capitalist #institutions tolerated #governance, economic #innovation, and #culture exchange by the #subaltern #counterpublic in their midst.

If that pattern of #history is applied to the #American Republic, the Creepy Weirdos intend to speed-run…all of it.

“Of all of the #American legal #institutions now facing sustained attack, none would seem better positioned to push back against Mr. Trump’s strongman tactics than this class of wealthy and politically connected firms, known collectively as Big Law.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-law-firms/

Songlin Wang uses the rich archival records of Chinese Maritime Customs & careful statistical analysis to show improvements in the quality of Chinese trade data during the late 19th century reflecting key institutional reforms & the importance of Hong Kong.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12308
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #China #trade #institutions

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A quotation from Kim Stanley Robinson

All of our governments are flawed, most of them disastrously. It’s why history is such a bloody mess.

Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) American writer
Red Mars, Part 2 “The Voyage Out” [Arkady] (1992)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/robinson-kim-stanley…

"When the very #institutions that made US #innovation possible are being systematically dismantled, it’s not a “political” story anymore. It’s a story about whether the environment that enabled all the other stories we cover will continue to exist.
We’ve always covered the intersection of #technology,innovation,& #policy…But what happens when the fundamental systems that make all of those conversations possible [#democracy] start breaking down?"
@mmasnick
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/

We had our first meeting to discuss the book On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder.

We covered the first two lessons, "do not obey in advance" and "defend institutions."

We hear a lot about the first, but not so much about the second. Institutions can't defend themselves -- they're made of people, have been developed over a period of time, and have hopefully been improved with trial and error and with the changing of the times to fit what society and government need (even if they can sometimes be slow moving and bureaucratic).

And as we are seeing, they are fragile and can easily be toppled.

One member of our group mentioned how in times of oppression in Eastern Europe, people developed their own institutions -- secret churches, for instance, or a radio show. Clandestine publishing is another example.

Unfortunately, the institutions that issue documents, are responsible for infrastructure, or deal with safety are different types of institutions that probably cannot appear in an ad hoc form.