“Today, nearly every top-tier U.S. university president or Wall Street hedge-fund manager has more in common with a socialist, European head of state than with the parents at a high-school football game in Waco, Tex.” - "Project 2025"
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"Lilly resolved to extensively test the drug on the animals before he would try it again himself. But he was reassured about the risks, he wrote, when “the six dolphins tested apparently had very good trips.”"
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“It feels pretty hard to think of what is currently called ‘higher education’ as something that is actually interested in study anymore,” Andrews says. “It’s really become a factory for credentialing.”
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"For the first time, a tightly organized network of foundations, politicians, and experts prescribed that the remedy for America’s civics malaise was for historians to teach less about history."
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This piece by @GutkinLen about the transformation of violence into a speech act, harm into a proxy for "exposure to things I didn't like," and hyperbole into academia's house style is superb. It works backward from the recent hysterics of Shai Davidai. 1/
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Opinion: The political left adopts parts of two incompatible views: the notion of higher education as the 13th grade, as well as the idea that higher education should be the manifestation of glorious inefficiency. It's time to do better. chroni.cl/47LHPnz
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Lovely analysis by Robert Huddleston. On elite campuses, the Liberal/Left divide is THE divide--an argument I and others have been making for years.
Crowd, please help me source. Who are some academic scholars, upwards of 75 years old, who you'd be interested to read career-spanning interviews with in @ChronicleReview?