Well this didn't take long. The chancellors who commissioned the Boghossian report (Martin and Diermeier, along with others) are publicly teaming up with the Trump administration to violate academic freedom and faculty autonomy, prominently citing the report in support of their campaign.

The Trump collaborators: Michael Crow (Arizona State), Ron Daniels (Johns Hopkins), Douglas Girod (Kansas), Andrew Martin (Wash U/St. Louis)

These four university President have participated in drafting a new “call to action” from Linda McMahon, the former wrestling executive turned Secretary of Education, to the nation&#821…

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I wrote something on the Boghossian report on the humanities: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

The Wrong Way to Criticize the Humanities

A recent report, commissioned by the chancellors of Vanderbilt and Washington University, invites further intrusions on scholarly self-governance.

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Much noise that political philosophy not equipped for realities of oligarchic rule (too utopian, aspirational etc). But don't forget (cf Tocqueville) that bones of liberal and republican thought were all sketched out under Ancien Regime conditions. All seemed hopelessly utopian until they weren't

Around the neighborhood this morning.

"Obey in advance" is now official Harvard policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

Opinion | Harvard Has Already Capitulated to Trump’s War on Academia

The administration is trying to assert political control over American higher education.

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A Harvard undergraduate outlines some of the things wrong with the recent speech codes imposed on the University. That campus-wide speech codes could be imposed as part of settling a civil lawsuit is outrageous enough. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

College freshmen saying "from the river to the sea" is an existential threat to Jewish people. America's shadow president giving Nazi salutes at a rally is not. by Bret Stephens and Bill Ackman

Whatever happens to my family, know this: No pardons were offered or discussed. I cannot begin to describe the level of betrayal and hurt I feel.

big victory for Indigenous activists

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier

Dr. King saw that Du Bois “did not content himself with hurling invectives for emotional release & then retire into smug, passive satisfaction.” “It is not enough for people to be angry,” he argued; “the supreme task is to organize & unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.”

MLK Now - Boston Review

Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.

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