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Those responsible for the worst treatment of the world and its human occupants continue to do so because we don’t make things hard enough for them: a little hardship and directed hostility toward the rich is long, long overdue. At the same time, though, we know very well why such a mass uprising and tidal shift remains difficult. Those who most fee
... See moreEvan Calder Williams • Combined and Uneven Apocalypse
Building A Prosocial Media Ecosystem | NOEMA
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Bill Maher asks the question many higher-ed critics want to know about college administrators...
"Yale has 5,307 undergrads and 3,500 administrators. What do they do?"
@dbessner highlights the "consumer-centered transformation," where students are now treated as consumers, and the college ex... See more
Alumni Free Speech Alliancex.comThe funding cuts at Columbia are stoking a civil war among the faculty.
On one side: scientists who are losing their grants and just want to do their research.
On the other: scholar-activists in the humanities who have little grant money to lose and support the protests.
Steve McGuirex.comWhat happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come?
New York Times • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
Intellectual Historians Confront the Present - The Ideas Letter
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Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
The frantic push to commodify exceptional young people.
Alissa Bennet, the Cword