@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.
@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.
@rupasubramanya
Speaking as someone who grew up in Missouri and has been back visiting, I disagree. Walz comes off more like the local Unitarian pastor talking down to people than folksy or sincere. And these filmed phone call videos are just unbelievably canned.
@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.
@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.
"Scientists should be able to disagree on public health policy without being branded monsters. The public is watching this spat and has lost trust in science, medicine, and public health."
@DrJBhattacharya
&
@Bryce_Nickels
in
@Newsweek
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.
@NateSilver538
None of that means anything until she starts doing interviews and debating. Is the candidate herself as impressive as her party's media apparatus? History and that she's been in hiding suggests the answer is no.
@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
@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.
@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.
"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
in
@nypost
.
"Federal funding has turned the business of resettling migrant children into a goldmine for a handful of NGOs—and their top executives."
@Maddie_Rowley_
in
@TheFP
"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
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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
@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.
"Harvard was once a shining beacon for other American, indeed global, universities to aspire to; now it is a cautionary tale."
@realChrisBrunet
in
@unherd
@aaronsibarium
Plus unlimited, indeed childlike, faith in the credentialed elite to enact perfectly equitable technocracy if the wicked enemy is removed from the equation
Cori Bush is a bombastic demagogue, which is why a lot of people love her and a lot of people hate her. But no honest observer can call her "effective" on any level. She's a Marjorie Taylor Greene.
If AIPAC and its donors succeed in ousting Cori Bush, we won’t just be losing one of Palestine’s staunchest allies. We’ll also be losing one of the climate movement’s most effective champions.
@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.
@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.
"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
@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."
@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.
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
.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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
@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.
"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
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.
@feelsdesperate
I once had to do the PR for a Crenshaw "study" in which all of the stats was miscalculated. If I hadn't have caught it, it would have been published as Truth and most likely nobody would have ever noticed.
"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
in
@compactmag_
@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.
"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
@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
@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
@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!
@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.
"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_
@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.
@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?
"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_
in
@spikedonline
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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
Organizational psychology 101: institutions tend to ultimately prioritize their own operations and longevity over whatever problem they were ostensibly created to solve.