The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
Scott MacEachern
@scottmaceachern.bsky.social
Vice-Chancellor, archaeologist, Maritimer
On the @chronicle.com website today, the following editorials follow one other: ‘Anthropology has a truth problem’ ‘The social sciences have a politics problem’ ‘The humanities need to do more to reach non-majors’ Thank God the STEM fields are perfected, so CHE doesn’t have to cover them
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Interesting interview. Like him or dislike him, Carney is on top of a lot of things. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/w...
A Transcript From The Times Interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada
New York Times journalists pressed the Canadian prime minister about a range of topics in an hourlong interview last week. Here’s a transcript of their conversation.
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This is a particularly British enquiry: I don’t know of any other country that has investigated the targeting of left-wing groups like this. But my assumption is that the security services in every Western country did this, so that there is a long list of similar atrocities waiting to be found.
Undercover police officer lied to spycops inquiry about sexual relationship
Officer forced to admit relationship with woman lasting at least six months while working under fake name Dave Evans
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So I think maybe I just figured out why @timeshighered.bsky.social has not reported anything negative about James Orr. I could very well be wrong, but here we go: In 2024, THE signed an agreement with Hungary's Culture and Innovation Ministry which oversees Hungarian higher education..
Samantha Asumadu@samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 2w agoThere is one article that mentions Cambridge Associate Professor James Orr on the @timeshighered.bsky.social site since 2025. There is no photo of him in it. No mention of his alleged misconduct. No mention of his alleged criminal conduct or indeed Christofascism or ethnonationalism.
Not sure how prevalent this is, but in the rural Atlantic Canada communities I grew up in, there is always a bedroom on the ground floor for older family members to die in. Because those stairs will kill you. It’s also weird inheriting that bedroom after a grandparent has died.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2w agoNope, that's accurate. I started making myself reach for the handrails when I turned 40 so it would be muscle memory when I got older, and it's already saved my ass a couple of times when I've slipped on the stairs.
The Daily Wire crew laughed as they introduced a scene in their new slop movie where a gay guy gets kicked off a roof and a queer woman gets her throat slit.
“…we can build a legal framework that is more than a cynical tool with which to punish one’s enemies and also better than what preceded it — something capacious enough to protect all minorities, principled enough to command legitimacy and resilient enough to resist political manipulation.”
Opinion | For Trump, Jews Are Proving to Be a Very Useful Tool
Debates about Jews are never just about Jews.
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The United States has become some weird parody of itself. It would be funny, if it wasn’t for the damage this fool is doing.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoKash Patel: "Applicants who have engaged in beastiliaty means they were victims of beastility because they were forced to do so. At this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving."
The UCLA Chancellor is apparently very much against antisemitism, but quite OK with torture. dailybruin.com/2026/09/12/j...
Julio Frenk condemns UCLA Law symposium featuring attorney of alleged 9/11 conspirator - Daily Bruin
This post was updated Sept. 13 at 11:24 p.m. Chancellor Julio Frenk on Friday condemned a School of Law symposium that included a defense attorney who represented an alleged organizer of the 9/11 terr...
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there's the abject failure of university+college presidents to come together as a group on day 1 to stand up for the U.S.'s second largest export + most powerful engine of ideas +innovation then there's the abhorrent failure of Darmouth's president in particular www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Dartmouth Exception | Jacob Weisberg
Among its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to.
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Spencer Cox when he’s at home. The democracy deficit at the state level in the USA is really extraordinary. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...
A Gender War Explodes in Utah Over the Courts, Abortion and Representation
When Republicans tried to repeal a law that voters passed banning gerrymandering, they found an opposition that flew in the face of Utah women’s “tradwives” imagery.
nytimes.com
A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:
”About 60 percent (59.4) of respondents would not recommend their state as a desirable place to work for colleagues or graduate students“
Academe@academemagazine.bsky.social · 4w agoNew on Academe Blog:
Here is my letter to the MacDonald Laurier Institute on the subject of their appalling research. Use as you will. I recommend sending something of your own, though. And if you know anyone associated with MLI - and Board directors, say - send it to them, too.
Alex Usher email to Brian Lee Crowley
(text of an email sent to Brian Lee Crowley of the MacDonald Laurier Institute on September 2, 2026) Dear Brian, I am writing to you and your board with respect to the publication “The equity excelle...
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NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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Michelle Cottle: “Where’s Christopher Rufo? I need Chris Rufo stat!!”
Cleg@clegggg.bsky.social · last mo.this is a pretty wild exchange with someone seemingly in a moderator position
“But how proud people can feel, discovering themselves to be children of a city without bombast and without myths, without missions and without truths.” Umb Eco “Canada is the utopia of no utopia… not about the pursuit of some skewed dream of dominance or some false idol of historical greatness.”
Opinion: Canada has been carving out a new identity, slowly but surely. What are we becoming?
Our bold declaration of sovereignty is just the latest signal that this country, long defined by cautious evolution, is both changing and being changed
theglobeandmail.com
Fantastic that Trump‘s pronouncement on Lake Ontario succeeded one on ‘Protecting the Great Lakes from Invasive Carp’.
"They want data about admissions policies to put pressure on universities not to admit African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans." Good to see someone like Lee Bollinger say this, bluntly and explicitly. And US universities are largely complying. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Trump Attack on Higher Ed “More Serious Than McCarthy Era”
A new book edited by former Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and University of Chicago legal scholar Geoffrey Stone discusses how university autonomy is threatened by the Trump administrati...
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I assume there will be immediately be letters protesting this and signed by the academic great and good, and editorials strongly condemning it in CHE and Insidehighered.
Stars and Stripes@starsandstripes.bsky.social · last mo.A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
You have to think that it is fine to use a large dataset cobbled together from estimates derived from multiple uncalibrated instruments, arbitrarily adjusted post hoc, occasionally made up, massaged, etc. to make sweeping statements about all of humanity. 30/34
Exactly this. I would take it further, in that that exclusion itself was politicized on identity grounds. Look at how fast the term ‘snowflake’ disappeared as a pejorative, when the students and faculty expressing fear belonged to groups that universities and commentators actually cared about.
Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)@katjathieme.bsky.social · last mo.Somehow in North American debates about free speech and academic freedom this idea is most often used as a demand placed on others—obviously they don‘t understand intricacies of legal freedoms—who want to take steps to exclude racists, misogynists, transphobes from academia and polite society. 2/
Extarordinary investigation by Forensic Architecture and Earshot of the IDF massacre of aid workers at Tel Al-Sultan, Gaza. forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...
Forensic Architecture
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The NYT on Richard Hanania: "Richard Hanania, a political scientist who once wrote for white-nationalist publications ...before moderating his views..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u... Also Richard Hanania:
Natalie’s gotten into the Benadryl again. “…much of the Electricity, Oil and Gas that Canada gets is transported through the U.S.A…”
Smackeycracks@smackeycracks.bsky.social · last mo.Sweet Jesus. The President of the United States is mentally ill. I'm not being alarmist. I'm 100% serious. After reading this shit, I think you'll agree with my assessment...
