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Redemption of a recovering flack. Ex- @Columbia / @PBS / @BrownUniversity . Somewhere between Manhattan & America. As seen in @JoinPersuasion , @dcexaminer & @nypost
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At the end of the day, what could be more progressive than critiquing the establishment?
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@GadSaad
My Dad used to say that the only time you heard the name Jesus Christ at a unitarian congregation was when the custodian fell down the stairs.
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@sfmcguire79
Will this change anything in practice, though? It seems like anybody who doesn't make DEI the centerpiece of their "service statement" will be excluding themselves from consideration.
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@asymmetricinfo
Not quite right to describe it as a "conservative" boycott -- the impact has been big enough that many Democratic voters were evidently turned off as well. More of a boycott from people tired of gender gnosticism suddenly being forced down their throats from every institution.
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@djrothkopf
I'll preface this by candidly noting that I don't agree with you. Could you explain what makes Kamala Harris a "superb and highly effective VP"? I think this is the first time I've ever seen such an assertion.
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@SFist
Indeed, the decline and hollowing out of San Francisco boils down to haters' 'Fox News tilt'
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@mattyglesias
Amazing that the profession apparently prefers to dwindle rather than produce work the public finds relevant.
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Speaking as a former administrator at a different Ivy League school, there were comically many of us. Schools could cut a third of their administrative staff before the student body would even begin to notice.
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@SwannMarcus89
Conversely, a lot of things that look wonderful about NYC from afar are less charming in the drudgery of the day to day.
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@JamesSurowiecki
The price of choosing a "historic" running mate rather than a competent one.
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@sfmcguire79
A mildly pleasant surprise, but Steinbach will land on her feet no matter what. Seems more like a feint pretending that the law school has learned its lesson, the more telling/significant point is that none of the students are being held accountable
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@feelsdesperate
In these unprecedented times, with the very survival of Our Democracy (TM) hanging by a thread, America's fourth estate heroes have the duty--nay, the privilege--of burying every story that might reflect poorly on the brilliant statesman we're so lucky to have in the Oval Office.
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@wil_da_beast630
At least the one violent riot was immediately condemned by virtually every institution, as opposed to the series of violent riots winked at, excused, subsidized, and implicitly endorsed by a broad swath of establishmentarians.
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"To justify their existence, 'diversity professionals' needed to seek out problems and issues — and if there weren’t any to be found, manufacturing them would suffice."
@wrong_speak
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@nypost
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"Federal funding has turned the business of resettling migrant children into a goldmine for a handful of NGOs—and their top executives."
@Maddie_Rowley_
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@TheFP
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"The bad press, the alienated donors, and the deeply disappointed alumni have resulted in an epiphany among many trustees and regents: That all the complaints about coddled and entitled students at elite institutions are true."
@Steven_Mintz
The coming reckoning for elite higher education
A hard rain is about to fall.
www.insidehighered.com
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@BillboardChris
The handful of Nazis I've had to deal with have all been sad lonely wounded losers obviously overcompensating for their shortcomings. These characters look like stock villains from a bad cable drama.
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@wesyang
If they concede even one blatantly obvious point, the entire edifice of the ideology crumbles, so mind over matter it is
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@blythebernhard
@stltoday
A communications professional should understand what sort of message that sends...
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@NolteNC
The culture has changed plenty, but for the worse. In 2004 the ABC Family channel was not actively trying to hurt kids in the way that its successor Freeform does.
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@timurkuran
I'd actually thought Joe had doomed his campaign by picking Kamala back in 2020, she needs to balance the ticket with a more appealing proxy pronto like whoa.
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@feelsdesperate
Sometime around 2014 the only acceptable topics for polite conversation became kids, real estate, new restaurants, and whatever the prestige streaming series of the day
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@LawrenceGostin
@ScienceMagazine
@oneillinstitute
@GeorgetownLaw
@GUGlobalHealth
Whatever the conciliatory rhetoric, and despite some private ambivalence, the public health establishment has learned little—still chomping at the bit to maximally exploit the next crisis, whether disease, climate, race or gender
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@aaronsibarium
Never thought I'd see the day! Still, she'll doubtlessly land on her feet with some new sinecure, and on balance the martyrdom may well prove good for her career.
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"Harvard was once a shining beacon for other American, indeed global, universities to aspire to; now it is a cautionary tale."
@realChrisBrunet
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@unherd
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@aaronsibarium
Plus unlimited, indeed childlike, faith in the credentialed elite to enact perfectly equitable technocracy if the wicked enemy is removed from the equation
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@jayrosen_nyu
Not sure if anyone on the right was actually in the slightest bit invested in Ronna McDaniel's POV, won't make any different either way.
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@krmaher
Respectfully, and as a veteran of public broadcasting, NPR has gone so far downhill as to become irrelevant. It panders so much to blue state Richistan that it's marginalized itself from the public discourse. Good luck turning the ship around, you've got a lot of work to do.
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@NAChristakis
@EdWhelanEPPC
One might argue that the dean understands what's become the mission of elite law schools as well as anyone, and it's idealistic critics who are behind the curve.
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@SteveKrak
The outrage would be a whole lot more impressive if they'd ever had the slightest problem with Psaki or Stephanopoulos.
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@janecoaston
That's a lovely sentiment, but whatever their "traditions of academic freedom and scholarly rigor" today's universities are falling way short of embracing, debating, or even allowing a true "multiplicity of viewpoints and disciplines."
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"The more an authority figure insists something must be true without explaining why it is true, the less likely it is to actually be true."
@politicalmath
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@bendreyfuss
Will this schtick continue for another five years or is this the last lingering detritus of publishing contracts signed a few years back?
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@martianwyrdlord
@JDHaltigan
@realchrisrufo
In my experience it's more that perfectly well-intentioned upscale professionals live in their epistemic bubbles, taking the prestige media literally, and just fundamentally don't know what they don't know. Ultimately, that's probably more terrifying.
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Sometimes I give Columbia Law a hard time but David Schizer is one impressive dude.
Cutting off federal funding would be catastrophic for our elite universities.
But maybe that's exactly what should happen.
My interview with Co-Chair of Columbia's Anti-Semitism Task Force, David Schizer for the
@WSJ
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@davidsirota
It depends if by left you mean the historical meaning of people concerned about class, or the intersectional cultural left that has become dominant over the past two decades. If the former, probably quite a few.
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@dilanesper
While her songwriting talent is very impressive, that might be overstating things a smidgen. Her insane popularity is better explained by media fragmentation killing off the household name -- in terms of mainstream superstars under 40, she's practically the only game in town.
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@HeerJeet
No doubt there's been a ton of irresponsible rhetoric, but the punitive maximalism and repeatedly untrue claims of many public health leaders also had a lot to do with undermining their credibility among broad swathes of the general public.
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@bendreyfuss
Scratch the surface of all sorts of luxury narratives and this is too often what you find
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@politicalmath
The boxsets of the old Disney cartoons make you sit through an interminable Leonard Maltin monologue setting the controversial bits "in context," and won't even let you fast forward, but at least the content is still there.
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@TIME
@CharlotteAlter
Good piece, but perhaps gives EA too much credit as a legitimate "social movement" rather than a sophisticated marketing effort to give a sheen of virtue to the same old corporate piracy
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@SonnyBunch
Acknowledging that a certain one of the sides could possibly have anything worth critiquing is obsolete.
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@JoyceCarolOates
She's issued a pro forma apology for the disastrous set of talking points her PR team put together for her, and now a new set of PR talking points embarrassing herself and the institution even more... hard to see Dr. Gay as a very sympathetic character in all of this.
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"The fact is, single-parent homes propagate economic inequality intergenerationally."
Rob Lester in
@compactmag_
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@JamesFallows
I understand hating John Roberts, but the comparison to Taney is disrespectful to Dred Scott
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@JoyceCarolOates
perhaps alliteration of a hard syllable that lands with a certain finality more than the link to doors themselves
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@mattyglesias
To be fair, the accusation is more that the FBI is dominated by pious administrative state establishmentarians than liberals per se...
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"Without a substantial university-wide change to its approach to free speech and academic freedom on campus, Harvard’s next president will struggle to restore the university’s reputation as a leader in academic excellence."
@TheFIREorg
@glukianoff
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My mother devoured the new issue of
@countyhwy
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The best reason to subscribe to County Highway, "America's Only Newspaper," is that it's better than all the other magazines. Not just different, which it is, but better.
"But it's all relative," you say.
Wrong.
Better exists.
When you know, you know.
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"Back when they were the party of the working class, Democrats opposed mass illegal immigration; consider the late Rep. Barbara Jordan, a liberal icon who in the 1990s led a commission that called for curtailing migration."
@bungarsargon
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@compactmag_
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@akheriaty
Love me some Orwell, but that dialogue is just a bit too brutally on the nose... more likely Big Brother and his bureaucrats would more wholeheartedly believe in their own unimpeachable benevolence
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@williams_paige
You could quadruple the reportorial budget and most journalists would still rather just gossip amongst themselves online, they truly feel they already know all they need to enlighten the peasantry.
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@DKThomp
Excellent piece, speaking as former university administrative staff. I wouldn't say the institutions lack identities, though -- most of the constituencies can come together on vilifying Middle America.
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"Elites of previous eras won world wars, established lasting peace, raised prosperity around the globe and transformed a backwater set of colonies into a global hegemon. Today’s crew can’t defeat third-world foes, police our cities, pay their bills or keep the power on."
@exjon
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@wesyang
Good point, but her removal might suggest to many that responsible adults in the room have stepped in to resolve things, and wokeness has peaked, so problem solved. For her to remain in place despite each embarassing revelation is probably the optimal outcome!
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@feelsdesperate
My parents were social workers, and really good at calming down unhinged people, but none of their clients ever had machetes.
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@monitoringbias
Maybe atheism-leaning agnostics are the most interesting...? A lot of fundamentalist atheists can't change their minds and won't change the subject
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@JamesSurowiecki
The dubiousness was already afoot, it was arguably something of a red flag even then...
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"As H.L. Mencken once noted, 'The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.'"
Elizabeth Bachmann in
@compactmag_
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@feelsdesperate
I miss the youthful naivete of reading the Times and assuming they were held accountable by their readers instead of the other way around. What kind of respectable member of my book club would I be to question the Grey Lady's holy word?
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"Obsessing over race has also edged aside a concept that is actually incredibly useful for explaining material deprivation, poor health outcomes, poor educational attainment and much else besides. Namely, class."
@Tom_Slater_
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@spikedonline
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@Micaheadowcroft
It's a terrible shame, but also necessary for affluent professionals to feel the consequences of the policies they support if they're ever to learn anything or course correct.
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@AshleyRindsberg
@NateSilver538
The dream of expansive technocracy is so baked in to the culture of public health, though, that I'd argue the quest for funding and prestige is inherently political.
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@RetsefL
My Dad was going downhill Covid or not, he didn't have years to live, but abruptly going from seeing visitors to his facility almost every day to virtual isolation certainly hastened his decline.
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@pauldrossi
@wil_da_beast630
It's also more than that -- the power trip of forcing people to tip-toe. Each and every time is a delightful little pleasure of a microaggression inflicted.
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@ENBrown
People in the publishing industry greenlighting these books/articles are disproportionately childless and a lot more ambivalent about it than they care to admit -- hence a cottage industry of content rationalizing their life choices
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@ZaidJilani
Or it could be that the seething racial animus presumed to motivate the GOP base is a lazy, dated trope.
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Organizational psychology 101: institutions tend to ultimately prioritize their own operations and longevity over whatever problem they were ostensibly created to solve.
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@feelsdesperate
We still need some librarians for the archives but passionate amateurs can take care of the rest, they pretty much already are.
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"To leave a farewell tweet on the voting public’s refrigerator door is a fitting end to Biden’s career, but it indicates something disturbing about our system that goes beyond Biden."
Christopher Caldwell in
@compactmag_
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@AstorAaron
I hope so, but wouldn't hold my breath. The ability for public health apparatchiks to declare live political issues as "public health crises" for which they have the scientific solutions is too precious to progressive technocrats to go too hard on their friends.
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@decmusicology
@mattyglesias
I worked in higher ed for many years, there's at minimum a tension between the sort of traditionalist popular history the broader public tends to want and the publish or perish novelty and hyperspecialization the academic field tends to reward.
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"Adding insult to injury, the politics imported into union organizing are frequently contrary to the economic interests of workers."
@bungarsargon
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@compactmag_
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@JoyceCarolOates
It's a good film that gives time and space to your POV, worth watching whether one loved or hated him.
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@SarahGrynpas
@nobrien64
@mattyglesias
1) What red cities? and 2) recent statistical drops in crime tend to be artifacts of incidents being reported (or not reported) differently than just a few years ago. Denying there's a problem does progressives no favors.
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@JacobRubashkin
In his memoir Bob Dylan talks about liking Goldwater, Barry might have had a certain flinty outsider appeal in the same way that a lot of people liked both Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich
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"An American left that sees its mission as entirely separate from the struggle of ordinary people, of civil society, of the masses, of the working class."
@DougLain
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@wesyang
Presumably this is coming down the pike at some point, but I daresay Americans might get more outraged at Fluffy not being able to provide consent than 8-year-olds.
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"I don’t give a damn about the byzantine and stupid details of the New York hush-money case that resulted in Donald Trump becoming the first US president convicted of a felony. Neither should you."
@SohrabAhmari
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@compactmag_
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