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To be clear, American has done this kind of authoritarian shit before, but far less of it since the 1970s.
Dr. Taylor, who spent her career at Oxford University, where she was a fellow and tutor at St. Anne’s College, was best-known for her work in moral psychology and the philosophy of emotions. The St. Anne’s memorial notice is here. Philosopher Roger Crisp, who called this to my attention, notes that, “Her collected...
Back in 2024, and, sadly, it was prescient. While Title VI has, indeed, played a very large role, I did not anticipate the sheer lawless way the Trumpistas would deploy it (i.e., no investigation, no process, just going straight to suspension of federal monies).
A scholar at Johns Hopkins, Lisa Siraganian, makes seven useful points!
First he was involved in the Trump Administration’s document calling for a massive violation of academic freedom, and now he intends to take the war on academic freedom to every department at Hopkins by pushing for “a shift in the recruitment of faculty,” partnering with the conservative American Enterprise...
…as this piece argues (with some pretty choice quotes from Dr. Cofnas), but the Ghent “Code of Ethics” is obviously incompatible with academic freedom, so my conclusion is that researchers at the University of Ghent do not have academic freedom with respect to the topics the Code touches. (This Twitter thread about...
Courtesy of Derek Muller. About what I would have expected, although Stanford’s recent performance is better than its historical performance (perhaps the change to USNEWS.com rankings several years ago which pushed Stanford to #1 and demoted Harvard to #5 have helped). I do expect Yale’s numbers to drop in the...
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