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    <title>The Failure of Affirmative Action - The Atlantic</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For the Black poor, a world without affirmative action is just the world as it is—no different than before."

[archived:
https://archive.ph/Qd4kB ]

"Most of my colleagues are college-educated. I am often the only product of felons, addicts, and foster care whom my peers have encountered outside of time spent volunteering in homeless shelters and group homes. Over the years, whenever affirmative action in higher education has come under threat, these folks have offered their sympathies. They believe that I—a child of a Black father and white mother who grew up in poverty and instability—feel the attacks more acutely. Most Americans seem to think affirmative action sits at the foundation of some beneficent suite of education policies that do something significant for poor Black kids, and that would disappear without the sanction of affirmative action. But the reality is that for the Black poor, a world without affirmative action is just the world as it is—no different than before.

In 2012, 6 percent of Harvard’s freshmen identified as Black. At the time, Black Americans made up 14 percent of the population and 15 percent of the country’s young adults. Harvard was then a far cry from racial parity. But in just three years, the university increased the number of Black freshmen by 50 percent. By 2020, The Harvard Crimson was reporting that more than 15 percent of incoming freshmen were Black, which meant the university had acquired perfect representation. This progress—Black progress—appears poised to recede with the expected loss of affirmative action due to the Supreme Court’s coming decisions on the Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina cases. But to endure a loss, one must have first enjoyed a gain. Diversity at Harvard was not the result of some intricate system for sourcing talent from the whole of Black America. With the permissions granted in 1978’s Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, Harvard used race-conscious admissions to saturate itself with students drawn from the highest-earning segments of Black America.

The same year that Harvard achieved perfect Black representation, a group of celebrated economists published a study examining income segregation across America’s colleges.

From 1999 to 2004, the years examined by the study, about 16 to 18 percent of American children were living below the federal poverty line. Families living below the FPL struggle to afford enough food, clothing, or shelter to stave off biological decline. In the absence of income segregation, children from poverty would make up a proportional 16 to 18 percent of college students. But according to the study, only 3 percent of the students at Harvard in that time period came from families in the bottom 20 percent. (The researchers later found that the percentage had increased to about 5 percent for a cohort of students at Harvard from 2008 to 2013.)

In October of 2020, Harvard reported 154 Black first-year students. Given that the child-poverty rate in Black America hovers north of 30 percent, in an equitable society, some 40 Black freshmen would have come from poor families. The income-segregation study did not disaggregate income brackets by race, and neither does Harvard, but the university does disclose that about a quarter of its latest freshman class comes from families with incomes below $85,000, its threshold for full financial aid. This is far above the federal poverty line and therefore not a good indicator of how many poor students attend Harvard. But if we extrapolate the study’s findings, only seven or eight of said 154 Black freshmen would have come from poor families. The other 140 or so Black students at Harvard were likely raised outside of poverty and probably as far from the bottom as any Black child can hope to be.

Writing in the American Journal of Education in 2007, the Princeton sociology professor Douglas Massey observed that 40 percent of Black students in the Ivy League were first- or second-generation immigrants. Black immigrants are the highest-earning and best-educated subset of Black America.

The Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., a director of the university’s African American–studies center, once estimated that as many as two-thirds of Harvard’s Black students in the early 2000s were the fortunate sons and daughters of Black immigrants or, to a lesser extent, children of biracial couples. A Black woman who was a Harvard senior at the time told The New York Times in 2004 that there were so few other Black students whose grandparents had been born in the U.S. that they had begun calling themselves “the descendants.”

The Supreme Court affirmed race to be an acceptable criterion within a holistic admissions framework in 1978. The regime described here persisted for 45 years without manifesting any progress of note for the Black poor, and it strains faith to imagine that the trickle-down was on its way in year 46. The coming eulogies for affirmative action should acknowledge this history. No policy that hesitates to say class prioritizes the impoverished, and the people we do nothing for should at least enjoy public acknowledgment of their abandonment.

When I was in elementary school, my grandmother told me that I would go to college for free because I was Native American. I’m not Native. Rather, my father is from a light-skinned Black family, and for a long time, families like these presented sharp cheekbones and aquiline noses as evidence of Native roots. In nearly every case, it was plain white ancestry, but Black folks had been denied the supposed dignity of whiteness for so long that even those who had it did not want it. My dad told the Native fiction to my mom, and she told my grandmother, who was white working poor, and her fictions met with my father’s. Like many in her class, she believed that the government was in the business of giving gifts to everyone but poor whites. In her view, the world worked like this: Asian Americans received loans to start businesses. Hospitals gave free medical care to Hispanic children. Native Americans enjoyed juiced-up welfare and free college. Black Americans received preferential hiring and a free education. Because she believed me to be both Black and Native, college appeared to be a given.

My grandmother’s understanding of how college entry worked for Black Americans was shaped by decades of white-poor hearsay about affirmative action. She had no Black friends; ethnic gossip and popular culture were all she had to go on, and these gave her a wildly inaccurate view of what was to be my college experience. But I have found that even wealthier and more sophisticated Americans have absorbed similar fictions.

According to The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, out of 153,000 Black test-takers in 2005, only about 1,200 scored a 700 or above on either section of the SAT. I was among that handful. Unlike the stories my grandmother told me, a red carpet wasn’t rolled out in front of me. The guidance counselor at my New Jersey public high school said nothing about my test scores and was similarly apathetic when I said I was not going to apply to college at all. When I came back a week later to recant after my father threatened to throw me out on the streets if I didn’t apply, my counselor—rather than hand me a blank check from the office of affirmative action—handed me a thin packet about the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

Being a former foster youth with a missing mother and a father only just released from prison, I was legally eligible for quite a bit of aid via the FAFSA. But without legal documentation of my situation, which no adult around me had kept, acquiring that aid would require me to obtain signed statements from members of the community testifying to my fractured living conditions. As a transient youth suddenly crashing with a father I had known for barely two years and residing in an entirely new town, there was no community to vouch for me. Unable to meet the federal requirements, I slogged through an associate’s, a bachelor’s, and eventually a master’s degree, accruing substantial loans despite eligibility for grants that could have paid for my entire undergraduate education.

Since 2018, I have used what I learned (albeit too late) to help my foster sister navigate college and the FAFSA, which must be renewed every year (including resubmitting community testimony on official letterhead). On more than one occasion, she has been selected for “additional verification,” one of several variations of bureaucratic rigmarole that can result in the delay of aid long enough to force lower-income students to miss a semester if they cannot afford to pay tuition out of pocket. Even when you’re prepared for this, as she and I were, the delay is demoralizing.

Every poor kid with aspirations of college faces a slightly different constellation of obstacles, but those differences abate beneath a homogenous disappointment. The National Center for Education Statistics found that, in 2012, just 14 percent of low-income high-school students  obtained a bachelor’s or higher degree within eight years of high-school graduation. Rates of college attendance specifically among Black youth and kids below the federal poverty line—the lowest of low-income—are lower still. Given that the rate for foster or homeless youth is a meager 2 to 11 percent, it’s safe to assume that the one for Black fosters is effectively zero. Meanwhile, compiling data scattered across publications, I’ve calculated that 85 percent of bachelor’s degrees awarded to Black students go to Black folks raised in the middle and upper classes. For daily life, the result is this: In any office—in any room—where a bachelor’s degree is a prerequisite, the odds that the person next to you has come from poverty, especially Black poverty, are staggeringly low.

Affirmative-action policies are not directly responsible for the impediments that poor Black students face in higher education. Nevertheless, those policies have existed for nearly five decades and have demonstrably not been an obstacle to the formation of a status quo in which so few poor Black Americans obtain a bachelor’s degree. Although that might be viewed as a policy failure, the oral arguments in the Supreme Court cases make this much clear: Affirmative action is not intended to combat the barriers faced by the poor, Black or otherwise. It is meant to achieve racial diversity. Where it finds the bodies does not matter.

In the case of Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, all parties involved—the justices, the petitioners, and the respondents—agree that the intention of affirmative action is to produce the “educational benefits of diversity.” As described by Seth Waxman, the respondent on behalf of Harvard, “a university student body comprising a multiplicity of backgrounds, experiences, and interests vitally benefits our nation. Stereotypes are broken down, prejudice is reduced, and critical thinking and problem-solving skills are improved.” The contention of Students for Fair Admissions is that Harvard could use other metrics, particularly socioeconomic status, to achieve educationally significant diversity without the need for racial considerations.

In response to the SFFA plan, Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested that weighting factors such as class in admissions amounts to “subterfuges” for reaching some sort of “diversity in race.” She probed the lawyers in oral arguments by saying that she did not “understand why considering race as one factor but not the sole factor is any different than using any of those other metrics.” The view that Sotomayor lays out here asserts that considering income and wealth, or considering them in conjunction with race, is just a tedious path to the same outcome achieved by considering race alone. But of course, an admissions scheme that considers class would not just be a subterfuge. Even if it yielded a student body with the same degree of racial diversity, the students themselves would be very different.

Many Americans retain a certain dissonance about class, believing simultaneously that it does and does not matter. Would a classroom with one Black student who was raised by parents who met while studying business at Yale benefit from the added diversity of a Black student who was raised in the Cuney Homes projects that produced George Floyd? You would be hard-pressed to find someone who answers no, and it is doubtful that Sotomayor would either. But the only way to promote the admission of these two hypothetical Black students is with policies that recognize both class and race. Unfortunately, conversations about diversity too often focus solely on the gaps between Black and white Americans, excluding entirely the issue of class divides among Black Americans.

In 2018, William Julius Wilson—a survivor of Jim Crow and a pioneer in the study of urban poverty—reported that Black Americans had the highest degree of residential income segregation of any racial group: Our top and bottom classes were then the least likely to live alongside each other. That same year, the Pew Research Center released a study on income inequality within races. From 1970 to 2016, the top 10 percent of Black workers earned nearly 10 times what the bottom 10 percent of Black workers did. For nearly 50 years, Black Americans experienced more income disparity than any other racial group in the country. The report received widespread coverage, including in The Atlantic, but mainly for its findings regarding Asian Americans, who had (temporarily) displaced Black Americans as the least equal group.

I can only cheer on, and envy, the speed at which knowledge of class disparities among Asian Americans has permeated popular culture. I hope it continues, because the Asian parity that Harvard has achieved is certainly not the result of admitting impoverished Burmese Americans. In the time since the 2018 Pew study was released, we have seen not just class-focused journalism but Always Be My Maybe, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Beef. Each pop-cultural work demonstrates not just that class exists for Asians, but that it drastically alters their lives, their opportunities, and their interactions in ways that—shockingly—mirror how class affects white Americans.

That no similar awareness is growing on behalf of disparities afflicting Black Americans is absurd. The fact that the white upper class had a median wealth more than 20 times that of the white poor helped fuel Occupy Wall Street, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and a socialist revival among white youth that continues today. In 2015, the Black upper class had a median wealth 1,382 times greater than the Black poor, along with an incarceration rate nearly 10 times lower than what I inherited. Yet still, some of the best-educated minds in the country claim to not understand how taking this into consideration might yield a qualitatively different student body than what comes from treating Black Americans as a class-free blob.

Powerful as they may be, elite institutions require support from the ground up. The social prestige that achieving racial diversity offers and the ability it has to smooth over the appearance of other inequities are too alluring for a university like Harvard to pass up. But, rich as it is, Harvard does not have the capital necessary to employ all of the country’s poor, fix their neighborhoods, and fund their public schools, or the willingness to wait an entire generation for those social changes to generate a cohort of low-income children who are nevertheless academically excellent. It will always be cheaper and more expedient to simply recruit wealthy kids instead. If what comes after affirmative action penalizes the Black middle and upper classes, that is nothing to celebrate. But if we want to erect something that benefits all Black Americans, we cannot expect that to happen without policies that treat class as meaningful."]]></description>
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    <title>Jeffrey Epstein saw promise in Bitcoin — and its far-right supporters | The Verge</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Epstein may not have fully understood crypto, but he helped shape its culture anyway."

[See also:

"EPSTEIN’S FINGERPIRINTS on Crypto and the GOP!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjhLySez3Jk

"Nearly every right-wing, authoritarian, or anti-democratic movement in tech, crypto, and politics can trace a line back to Jeffrey Epstein’s network. From influencing Peter Thiel to funding far-right youth movements, Epstein’s reach extended far beyond his crimes.

In this episode of The Left Hook, tech journalist and author David Morris joins the conversation to connect the dots between Epstein, crypto, AI, gaming, and the rise of modern right-wing culture. We explore how wealth, access, and secrecy allowed Epstein and his allies to build an ecosystem that continues to shape politics, technology, and power today.

Watch to understand the shocking legacy of Epstein’s influence—and how it still impacts global politics and tech."

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-jeffrey-epstein-seeded-the-great ]]]></description>
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    <title>The Limitations of Partisan Politics - by Musa al-Gharbi</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-10T02:08:19+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I don’t vote.

As I explained to Nick Gillespie, I stopped voting as I transitioned into social science. Putting on a jersey and rooting for a team was messing up my work (and that of my peers), so I decided to take a step back from participation in horseraces (although I still vote for ballot initiatives, etc.).

What I told Nick was true. But, perhaps, it wasn’t the whole truth. If I’m being fully honest, another part of my reason for abstaining was the growing realization that, when the chips are down, and the rubber meets the road, the Democratic Party is basically useless. Often, in fact, they’re a big part of the problem. This reality shone through clearly to me while researching my book.

The core puzzle We Have Never Been Woke tries to grapple with is that, from the beginning of our professions, symbolic capitalists have defined ourselves in terms of altruism and serving the common good. We have higher pay, prestige and autonomy than most other workers in America. We have a lot more cultural and political influence too. We have consistently insisted that it’s necessary to preserve and enhance these benefits – not for our own sake, but to empower us to help everyone in society, including and especially the least among us.

In terms of moral and political affiliations, the slice of Americans that are most likely to self-identify as antiracists, feminists, environmentalists or allies to LGBTQ people are also the same slice of society that dominates the symbolic professions. Symbolic capitalists overwhelmingly self-identify as “liberal,” “progressive,” or “left.” We vote overwhelmingly and increasingly for the Democratic Party.

Given how we tend to define ourselves, what one might expect is that as more wealth and power was consolidated in our hands, we’d see longstanding social problems getting ameliorated, inequalities would shrink, social tensions would be eased thanks to the adjudication of experts who make decisions based on “the facts” and “merit,” and we’d see growing trust in institutions because of all the great work we’re doing. This is what previous generations of symbolic capitalists promised would happen – and it’s a story we continue to tell.

Over the last 50 years, there were significant changes to the global socioeconomic order that radically enhanced the affluence and influence of symbolic capitalists relative to everyone else in society. However, the results from this transition are very far from what we promised. We see growing inequalities. Longstanding social problems have festered and, in some cases, grown worse. We see growing affective polarization and mistrust in institutions. The core puzzle the book is trying to work through is, “what went wrong here?” Why is it that the world we inhabit is so far from the world we promised?

Of course, symbolic capitalists recognize that the world we live in is very far from what we ostensibly hope for. We have stories we like to tell ourselves about why this is the case. Ultimately, these stories tend to boil down to two villains: “the millionaires and the billionaires” and “those damn Republicans.” In a previous post, I addressed the “blame the actual capitalists,” narrative at length. Here, I want to address the deficiencies of the partisan political narrative we gravitate towards."

...

"A desire for peace, order, and non-confrontation dominates the academy. Higher ed institutions, in general, are full of people who are risk averse and conformist. People who fall into “leadership” roles are often the most quiescent of all – allowing themselves to get steamrolled by PR teams and lawyers into servile postures, offering limp and half-hearted defenses of the academy and its mission, when they are offered at all. And to their credit, they recognize this about themselves: most university presidents acknowledge they have done a poor job responding to declining faith in their institutions and the accompanying efforts to impose reforms from the outside.

Small wonder the public doesn’t trust academia! Not only are we apparently unable or unwilling to address stakeholders’ concerns, we also seem incapable of effectively communicating our own value in society in the face of adversaries who are out to gut our institutions.

Now is the time to dispense with both of these tendencies. We need to be more explicit about addressing ways our institutions are not, in fact, representing and serving large swaths of America. However, we also need to be more muscular about pushing back against false narratives, asserting our value to society, and defending our institutions from inappropriate forms of political interference.

Institutional neutrality, now the rage, is no shield for cowardice. The Kalven Report, the foundational document of the institutional neutrality movement, emphasizes, “From time to time instances will arise in which the society, or segments of it, threaten the very mission of the university and its values of free inquiry. In such a crisis, it becomes the obligation of the university as an institution to oppose such measures and actively to defend its interests and its values.”

We find ourselves in such a moment now.

If, in this moment, faculty refuse to make use of the rights and freedoms we have, then it doesn’t matter if they’re stripped away, and they will be. If “academic freedom,” “free speech,” and “viewpoint diversity” organizations have nothing to say to this illiberalism, or even support these moves, they’re worse than useless. If university leaders cannot muster the strength or conviction to decline to follow unlawful and unethical orders and challenge these actions in the courts, then they should resign in disgrace or be pushed out. If we, as a collective, cannot and will not stand against this overreach and defend ourselves in public -- then we deserve what we get. But others do not deserve to suffer from our failure. And so, we must not fail.

Critically, any resistance to the administration’s illiberal policies, or defense of our institutions and their mission – these must not be framed in banal partisan terms. This is not just a matter of effective praxis (to prevent further polarization and resentment), it’s also a matter of respecting the truth. Again, we got here through bipartisan political actions. Moreover, the chronic failures of our own professions and institutional leaders provided fodder for the “populist” forces now aligned against us. We’ll only get out of this predicament by engaging with those who are currently skeptical of, or alienated from, our institutions – by acknowledging and constructively responding to their concerns.

More broadly, it’s critical for symbolic capitalists to understand that “voting blue no matter who” is not really a solution to the social problems we express concern about. Some of the places where these problems are most pronounced are symbolic economy hubs where Democrats exercise uncontested rule. And when there’s a lot on the line, and it’s critical for the party to have a backbone and take decisive action, you can bank on the Democratic Party to instead make things worse or, at best, to engage in purely sterile forms of #Resistance.

As I detail in Chapter 4 of We Have Never Been Woke, symbolic capitalists are more likely to vote and support political campaigns than almost any other block of the U.S. electorate. However, we tend to overrate voting as a means of addressing social problems. It’s convenient to think that we just show up to the ballot box every couple of years, pull the lever for the “blue” candidate, and we’ve fulfilled our obligations to social justice. But that simply isn’t the way the world works.

We can look to the areas Democrats control with one-party rule to recognize the limitations of partisan politics for addressing social problems. Those limitations are severe."]]></description>
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I was blocked in 2020. Yeah, a lot of these things that we’re seeing now… I was under investigation in 2019, federal investigation, and didn’t find out until 2020 through Google. Google was saying it was sharing my information for a whole year with the federal government. Taking people’s phones at the airport, the kind of Islamic character, terrorist financier, these kind of things.

These categories, the RICO charges against Stop Cop City was a prelude also to these kinds of things. All of that is in the package right now of the [NSPM-7] memo from this Trump administration. So, I mean, they’re treating our existence, if you refuse or question, as counterinsurgency. But we haven’t thought of ourselves as insurgents.

And I think we all, and it’s not about what we do, it’s about how we think about what we’re doing, right? And the example I always give is like, I took out some student loans, right? I was working at the law firm and realized that it will take me a really long time before I can pay them. At some point, I stopped paying them. They said I’m in default. And I thought to myself, I’m on strike.

These modes of consciousness, of liberation consciousness, something that we cultivate over time, it’s how people in Palestine are able to survive until now. It’s not out of victimization and victimhood. It’s about a recognition of they have a whole way of valuing things differently. When we’re in movements, we feel that way. When we’re not together, we don’t. We’re in a moment right now where we’re bombarded by all sorts of information.

We’re afraid, we’re more isolated, we’re more in debt, they’re more ruthless. And yet we have no choice. And I think this is what’s important. It’s like we have no choice but to resist. And this mode of resistance isn’t about violence. This mode of resistance is about a refusal of having an allegiance to something that’s killing you. Just that.

Wherever we are. From there, space opens up. A different conversation can be had. We’ve had so many movements. We have so much analysis. It’s not about a diagnosis of the problem right now. It’s about how do we build power and how can we sustain it over time. The thing about the United States is most of the ways that we thought about the world is that it’s always insular to the United States.

And Palestine showed us that it can bring us together. It can have a compass for liberation for what’s right and what’s wrong. And these things have influenced what’s going on over here. But to think of Palestine as an issue amongst many is really not where we need to be. There’s a strategic engagement to Palestine that actually has material connections to New York. It has material connections to our wellbeing. It can bring people together. It can clarify what’s going on.

And there’s much that could be done here, but we still are thinking in issue silos and we’re overwhelmed. And the final thing I’ll say just from my, this is just my experience and I don’t know, I mean, I don’t have answers, but these are some of the things that first come to mind is that.

I mean, we went from like defund the police to giving us [former NYC Mayor] Eric Adams. You know, we went from like a million other things that we fought for and it’s always the equivalent of, you’re never going to get what you want. And that means that we’re at a point right now that we have to really think about how our struggles are interconnected.

But in the interconnectedness of our struggles is how we fight back. It doesn’t mean that elections are naught. It means that our trajectory is different. Look at how many people work at a museum. On the front end, they’re all being exploited. On the back end, they have no choice to be creative. At the top are people with money and they mean… MoMA is a great example.

Here’s MoMA, and then here’s a building with luxury condos right next to it, it’s the MoMA building. They sell those apartments with a back door to the museum. They never have to go out on the street. That’s the kind of world we live in. Those same, many of the settlers in the West Bank are coming from Brooklyn. That’s why we were talking about the synagogues and why they’re holding these land sales.

So the connectivity of what’s going on in Palestine to New York or what’s going on in the Middle East to the United States, they’re not separate. And we saw this articulated in Italy, and maybe you can share your experience, but even in the two days general strike that was in October, I think, they connected things that are happening in Palestine, right, the genocide, the ethnic cleansing in Palestine, to the fact that their government is funding and supporting that and their conditions at home are not good.

They have grievances. These kinds of connections are important. They’re important to make. And I think that they’re a basis by which a coalition can come together. And we’re also at a moment similar to Occupy Wall Street or right before. At some level, the right and left, right, is dissolving on the material conditions on the ground. And that’s an opportunity because there’s structures of violence and of oppression of racism, let’s say, and white supremacy.

They’re vertical and horizontal. The ones that we enact on each other are actually created by the system. That’s how it keeps going. But to actually have a systemic understanding of that and be on the ground and create spaces in which people can step out of those “identities” is really important right now. Because I think that everyone agrees they don’t want an authoritarian government here, that the First Amendment is super important, that ICE is fucked up and supporting a genocide is unethical. And we act like an empire, but our condition is worse than ever. Something is not being articulated in a positive way for people.

Chris Hedges

That was why they killed Fred Hampton. He was out in poor, white communities building coalitions based on class, not on race, not that race isn’t important. And that’s dangerous. I think that’s exactly what you’re talking about.

Amin Husain

Yeah.

Chris Hedges

I want to just close by talking about your experience at NYU. One of things that’s been so nauseating for me about these academic institutions is they essentially advertise themselves as generators of diversity. Although it tended to be diversity based on race or ethnicity, not on class.

But nevertheless, and then the moment Trump snarled in their direction, they couldn’t shut it all down fast enough. I, as you know, got a master of divinity from Harvard Divinity School, and Harvard Divinity School had, I think, a pretty good center in terms of building relationships with the Palestinian community, and they closed it. Harvard just shut it down.

And this was what you were attacked, vilified for saying what we now know is true, and that is that there were no beheaded babies. There were no beheaded babies, there’s no evidence of systematic sexual assault on October 7th. You made this case and you lost your job.

So talk a little bit about academia because… and they’ve shut down all the encampments, they’ve criminalized free speech, and these are important centers, I think, both like museums, like I always think of [Antonio] Gramsci, these institutions that replicate ideas. That’s what so much of your work has been confronting. But talk about your own particular case, and then just the wider case of what’s happening within university and college campuses.

Amin Husain

Yeah, I mean my experience at NYU is that I was teaching there for eight years and I taught courses like art, activism and beyond, art and the practice of freedom. Decolonization is not a metaphor and it was always well received, never got a complaint, always oversubscribed. I taught in multiple schools and departments.

And then the treatment was one in which, a few days before I’m supposed to teach, I hear from students before I hear from the university. And I’m under investigation and they wouldn’t even tell me why for the longest time. And then as you said, it was those things, but it was also things that are not in my name, meaning Decolonize This Place has an Instagram account, I was being questioned and interrogated by two lawyers about, you have control over what this account publishes?

Something Meta, by the way, took away the same week that I got suspended and then later fired. It had 400,000 followers, it would reach millions. It was kind of like an influencer account. Again, no recourse there but I was being criminalized for thoughts and ideas that weren’t even part of class, that weren’t even part of… and I’ve had Jewish students in my classes, never complained because universities are supposed to be places of learning and questioning and these kinds of things.

So what’s happening at our universities is really both alarming and not surprising. The influence of money and what people had years ago referred to as the university becoming a corporation. Like they’re taking it seriously. And that’s why you have so many administrators, like a class of administrators that are acting more like cops that line themselves up next to riot police in Columbia and NYU and all these things and raided their students who are paying to go there to get an education.

It’s bonkers. And then you think about NYU and you’re like, well, why is Larry Fink on the board? What does he know about education? You know, because he’s giving money. So then they have a say in what our institutions can do. Okay, so these universities that are supposed to kind of create good people that are well thinkers, that are in part of like the society that we’re imagining as a good society. That’s all not going on right now there.

It’s a form of brainwashing and it’s elevating certain disciplines, like what? Militarism. Data, data computation. Nothing of liberal arts unless you have a trajectory of working for a corporation. These departments around art, liberal arts, these kinds of things, were always low funded. But now they’re going to become extinct.

Chris Hedges

Well, look at The New School. They’re just shutting them down.

Amin Husain

Exactly. This is not, to your point, this is not an isolated thing. This is a transition of an economy with an idea of a future, foreseeing the system that they’re ushering in as people say the empire is falling. They’re not waiting. They’re ushering in something new. And when I look at my condition, I think it was, it was penalizing me, but it was also a deterrence.

It was a deterrence on speech and a deterrence on action, meaning watch what you say and behave. Otherwise you’re never going to get employed anywhere, which, you know, that’s part of it. And it doesn’t stop me from doing this, but I’ve made harder decisions earlier. My kind of thing at the university is that I would sit with students first day and I’d be like, why are you here? This is why I’m here.

You don’t need to buy books. They’re all available. But if you want to support the author and you can, you should, right? Why are we going into debt? What are we learning from this? So the space of learning was one in which we learned together and one in which we learned from each other what’s happening. And I remember something that Baldwin, James Baldwin, said once at the British Museum in a video that is no longer on YouTube because they’re cleansing all that.

But he said something about the enslaved being on ships. He’s like, “The reason they would put their backs to each other and they would make sure they didn’t speak the same language is because if they did, they probably would have known what was happening to them. And they may have figured out something about what to do and the outcome may have been different.”

So I think about what’s happening at our universities and think that there’s a purging that’s going on. There’s a disciplining that’s happening. But also, in the world that I’m imagining, I don’t want to be disciplined by anyone. I mean, people like Fred Moten and Stefano Harney and all of these kinds of thinkers have talked about universities as being precinct, and Jasbir Puar, as being precinct-adjacent. I mean, you got it.

I mean, our students would go in there and they would be afraid about their grade. They didn’t care about each other or the world. The ethics in which they’re promulgating over there is one like you would get at Silicon Valley. It’s one in which you would get… it’s not a world that’s amenable to life and to each other and to different kinds of relationships that are nourishing.

So when I went to Palestine and I told them I got fired and I told them why, and people in Palestine were like “mabrouk!” It’s like, congratulations.

Chris Hedges

Which means congratulations, right?

Amin Husain

And I think if we had community, and community is something that we construct and we construct and struggle, that’s what you would hear. And you wouldn’t feel worthless, right? You wouldn’t feel like you did something wrong. You’d feel like you’ve done something a little, but it’s in the right direction. And that’s what this all is about. There are so many more of us than them.

And there’s so much more thoughtfulness and thinking and love and care than what they have to offer. But they’re converting these museums and these universities and these schools and changing the curriculum. Think about it. You were talking about the Gaza peace plan. First point, de-radicalization, makes sense.

That’s why we don’t learn about this being stolen land or about enslaved people brought over here and built this economy. That’s what Israel is doing or wants to do with a genocide that’s still ongoing as they speak peace.

So I think about my experience at NYU and I think about: here’s a real estate developer that’s taking advantage of no taxes and that’s producing people in debt, right? Producing people in debt, one of the highest institutions to graduate undergraduates with huge amounts of debt is NYU, right? So then what does it mean to be free? We don’t.

This is one thing we would talk about in our class. I mean, freedom is about time, and freedom is about space. Debt is about future labor. And what they’re doing is that they’re taking all, in Arabic, “Muqawamat al-hayat” [essentials of life], all the things that have to do that are life-sustaining — healthcare, housing, these things, these things are now, the prospect of even owning a house is absurd right now.

In fact, the whole economic model with Blackstone and BlackRock is no one’s going to own homes. So then you have this debt, and then they’ll criminalize the debt. And so think about these kinds of relationships. And then you have students going into NYU to learn about freedom while they go into debt. And they graduate having to work with the same people that are oppressing them while their taxes go to pay and fund a genocide. That’s what’s going on.

And that’s not something that feels good. And it’s not something, I’m not happy that I was fired, but I’m happy that I was, that I made the right choice and I didn’t silence myself and people should, everyone has to figure out what’s doable.

But solidarity and your own liberation and fighting and refusal is never comfortable. People have to step out of their comfort right now. And to think that we’re all individually going to save ourselves doesn’t work that way."]]></description>
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[direct link to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlWpGOu_y7A ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The ideology of those who believe that economic activity is meaningless is then quite understandable. At least, the type of economic activity expected of the elite class, seeing itself as too smart and productive to dirty their hands with machinery. 

Economic nihilism is then the ideology of the young, aspirant class, willing to put in two years—but only two years—at whatever firm is prestigious upon graduation. Economic nihilism is the ideology that celebrates taking shortcuts. The economy itself is abstracted away, what’s left is a salary or its equivalent in crypto payouts. 

Roy Lee told me that he thinks the future of work will be more intellectual and creative. “Standards of living will just grow and people will just spend their time fighting in the marketplace of ideas,” he said. He suggested that AI, eclipsing human productivity, may bring about a universal basic income. I thought this to be an overly-optimistic response coming from someone who made the defining product of economic nihilism. This same lackluster dole future remains the default answer given by even the most prominent tech executives such as Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk, when asked about humanity’s economic prospects. 

When laptop jobs join stable single-earner households and good customer service in the pantheon of distant, pleasant memories of the economic past, I doubt most will celebrate their newfound ability to think rather than work. After all, the educational system that gave rise to—and then punished—Cluely is the same educational system that teaches students not how to think but how to check boxes.

Over the last few months, I’ve argued with friends about which jobs AI will automate away first. I argue that it’s the jobs of the elite aspirant class: consultants, software engineers, and big law associates. The reason is that these jobs are knowledge work, meaning that they just require intelligence—not ingenuity, creativity, or a great amount of urgency—to successfully do. Rather than worrying about Uber drivers, waiters, and telemarketers, perhaps elites are worrying about themselves. Perhaps the existential risk is one of facing the end of their work rather than the end of work as such.

And perhaps the elite class is on some level reaping what it has been sowing. While the current new generation has not created these conditions, few from it have sought to change the dismal economic and political landscape. With AI ready to replace the bulk of Ivy League knowledge work, perhaps we will finally exit the paper belt and enter what was the real economy all along. This is, however, a dangerous circumstance for society given that the history of revolution can be read as the history of frustrated aspirant elites leveraging their collective power for their own rather than general benefit. Economic nihilism, being a form of nihilism, ultimately seeks to abolish itself. What remains to be seen is what approach, if any, this elite class will use to adapt."]]></description>
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    <title>Balkinization: Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Ed</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-25T02:52:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regulation-by-deal-comes-to-higher-ed.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[See also reproduced in Adam Tooze's newsletter with additional commentary:
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-399-columbia-university ]

"Earlier this evening, Columbia University announced an agreement with the Trump administration in which Columbia makes a host of concessions in order to restore its eligibility for federal funding. The agreement is already being described as “unprecedented,” “the first of its kind.” These descriptions are true but ambiguous, because the agreement breaks new ground on any number of levels.

For instance, the agreement marks the first time that antisemitism and DEI have been invoked as the basis for a government-enforced restructuring of a private university. The agreement was engineered by a novel collaboration among the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, the General Services Administration, and the White House, which pooled their resources to ratchet up the pressure on Columbia (with some help on the side from the Department of Justice). The agreement is also the first to require a university to fork over money to the government as a condition of receiving money from the government, bringing a new brand of pay-to-play into the world of scientific and medical research.

And let’s not forget that the agreement grows out of the executive branch’s first-ever cutoff of congressionally appropriated funds to a university, so as to punish that university and impel it to adopt sweeping reforms, without any pretense of following the congressionally mandated procedures. Lawyers have been debating the exact circumstances under which the executive branch may freeze particular grants and contracts to particular schools. Yet as far as I’m aware, no lawyer outside the government has even attempted to defend the legality of the initial cutoff that brought Columbia to its knees and, thereafter, to the “negotiating” table.

In short, the agreement gives legal form to an extortion scheme—the first of its kind!—that defies the relevant statutes as well as the constitutional separation of powers and the First Amendment.

There is another unprecedented feature of the situation that is so obvious it is easy to overlook, and that might ultimately prove the most consequential of all: the way in which the federal government is seeking to reshape the internal operations of universities not through generally applicable directives, but rather through a series of bilateral “deals.” The Trump administration has made clear that while Columbia is first in line, it intends to reach comparable agreements with other schools—to scale the Columbia shakedown into a broader model of managing universities deemed too woke. As has already occurred with law firms, tariffs, and trade policy, regulation by deal is coming to higher education.

* * *

Recent years have seen fierce debates over how universities should be regulated when it comes to matters of discrimination. The traditional paradigm is that Congress passes civil rights laws; the Department of Education promulgates rules, following a process of public notice and comment, to implement these laws; and the department then seeks to ensure compliance. Under President Obama, the executive branch began to rely more on Dear Colleague Letters and other informal policy statements, and less on notice-and-comment rulemaking, to promote its vision of antidiscrimination. Many commentators on the right cried foul. By 2024, they were joined by a growing chorus on the left, including some who accused the Biden administration of utilizing “subregulatory guidance” to undermine pro-Palestinian protests.

Without any clear grounding in the civil rights statutes themselves, the Trump administration has begun to effect another, more dramatic regulatory shift—away from guidance documents addressed to the entire sector, and toward bespoke deals foisted upon individual schools after summarily terminating or threatening their federal funds. It is important to emphasize that this shift does not reflect an increased interest in enforcement, leading to an increased number of consent decrees or out-of-court settlements. These deals will not be the product of thorough investigations or judicial findings of misconduct by the schools in question. No established legal process was followed for the Columbia agreement; no genuine legal dispute was resolved. The dealmaking is the main regulatory event from start to finish.

This emerging model raises profound concerns not just for universities’ budgets and independence but also for the rule of law. By relying on “particular transactions to effectuate government policy,” scholars have observed in other contexts, regulation by deal bypasses all of the “notice, comments, [and] due process standards that we ordinarily expect from public administration.” While guidance documents may share some of these deficits, they are not actually binding on regulated parties and at least aspire to uphold bedrock legal principles of “generality, clarity, publicity, stability, and prospectivity.” The style of regulation reflected in the Columbia deal is at once far more coercive and far more arbitrary—opaque in development, unpredictable in application, deeply susceptible to personalism and corruption, and only contingently connected to the laws Congress has written. As compared to the familiar fare of public administration, “one-off dealmaking is more about back-door terms, forceful results, and unequal application of standards, to the extent standards exist at all.”

Regulation by deal may have a useful role to play under certain conditions. For example, the executive might have an urgent need to partner with particular entities, legislative authorization to do so, and good cause to believe that the unpredictability of dealmaking will reduce moral hazard or enhance legal compliance. The financial crisis of 2007–2008 arguably satisfied these conditions. Whatever one thinks about Columbia or elite universities more generally, the current campus imbroglios plainly do not.

The spread of regulation by deal would be worrisome in any period, but it is especially worrisome at this time and in this domain. Authoritarianism feeds on manufactured emergencies and hardball tactics that give the executive leverage to attack political opponents and compel obedience. Basic research, on the other hand, thrives under stable institutional frameworks, reliable funding commitments, and a climate of free inquiry. Deals like Columbia’s enhance the power of presidents and their allies within targeted universities; sideline Congress, the courts, and most faculty; and sow fear and uncertainty throughout civil society. They are fundamentally inconsistent with the logic of academic freedom.

* * *

But what if you believe that Columbia, Harvard, and their ilk have made grievous missteps of their own and therefore welcome the changes these deals will bring? Regulation by deal, as noted above, gets forceful results. And forceful results seem to be what many of these universities’ critics crave.

I cannot hope to convince those who are determined to “dismantle” universities like Columbia and Harvard that the ends don’t justify the means here. (Nor can I offer an assessment of the precise terms of the Columbia agreement, which I have not yet had a chance to study.) All I hope to convey is that the means being used to push through these reforms are as unprincipled as they are unprecedented. Higher education policy in the United States is now being developed through ad hoc deals, a mode of regulation that is not only inimical to the ideal of the university as a site of critical thinking but also corrosive to the democratic order and to law itself."]]></description>
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[archived:
https://archive.ph/mmi3A ]]]></description>
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    <title>How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right | The Verge</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-09T00:06:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Mamdani affair exposes the paper’s weaknesses. Again."

...

"Similarly, the Times is seeking the approval of people who are never going to love them. The right-wing activists on X and Substack will never view the Times as an ally — only a force to be manipulated, at best, and an enemy at worst. The Times itself is as much a victim of algorithmic bias as everyone it looks down on; trying to be “objective” means skewing further and further right, with disastrous results. An average Reddit mod has a better grasp of how this works than any Times editor.

The result is that “objectivity” is working to actively undermine the Times’ journalistic apparatus. In some respects, it seems like the Times gets panicky about truth. Not a great look for a newspaper, and not the kind of thing that gives one confidence about its reporting on such issues as Gaza and transgender health. Succumbing to one right-wing moral panic could be regarded as a misfortune; repeatedly falling for the same playbook starts to look like something much worse than carelessness.

The Times has a long and well-documented history of being unable to reckon with its flaws. Every journalistic institution will make mistakes, because journalists are people. The trick is not to repeat them. But as long as looking balanced matters more than baseline reality, the Times will continue its shoddy reporting on right-wing issues. Healy is setting the standards, because if someone else set them, they might be too high.

Healy didn’t promote himself into the standards position. Joe Kahn, The New York Times’ executive editor, praised both the story and Healy’s defense of it, according to Marisa Kabas, an actual independent journalist whose scoops the Times has not credited. “Multiple top editors” greenlit the Mamdani story, according to Semafor. The false balance problems at The New York Times come from the very top. It is not the only major paper that’s torching its reputation; Jeff Bezos has undermined the authority of The Washington Post to a genuinely stunning degree. But the trouble at the Times is a considerably more dismal sight to behold. This is not an owner kneecapping an independent newsroom. Instead, the Times is enthusiastically destroying its credibility all by itself."]]></description>
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[archived:
https://archive.ph/4FEQx ]

[video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Mw2mELF4g ]]]></description>
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    <title>Iran, Israel, USA and World War 3 | Chris Hedges | UNAPOLOGETIC - YouTube</title>
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Hedges reflects on his years reporting from war zones, the cynical nihilism driving Netanyahu’s assault, and how Israel’s genocide in Gaza has become a “spectacle” that has irreparably broken trust between North and South.

Are Israel’s and the Pentagon’s stated shifting priorities real, or a façade to continue diminishing societal infrastructure in the region? Will the complicity of Arab states in the genocide lead to blowback? Is regime change the goal, or is this just an excuse?

UNAPOLOGETIC is hosted by Ashfaaq Carim

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0:00 Introduction
1:40 Was Iran strike inevitable
4:10 Israel’s plan for Iran
8:00 Will US go deeper
9:45 Who leads US policy
12:30 Why regime change fails
15:00 Netanyahu’s nihilist war plan
20:00 Arab states’ complicity
25:00 Gaza genocide as spectacle
31:00 West Bank’s grim future
35:00 Risk of regional war
41:00 Global fallout of war
47:00 US politics and war
56:00 Journalism’s collapse today
1:04:00 Just US policy vision"]]></description>
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    <title>Have identity politics changed the course of pro-Palestine protests? | Centre Stage - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-12T15:06:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP7Nzwm-kQ4</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this episode of Centre Stage, our guest is scholar and activist Norman Finkelstein. 

He discusses his latest book on the role of identity politics in the repression of campus protests in support of Palestine.

Finkelstein explores how contradictions in wokeism are being weaponised against the pro-Palestine movement and what that means for free speech today.

Phil Lavelle is a TV news correspondent at Al Jazeera."]]></description>
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https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-biggest-problems-in-legacy-media

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    <title>Doctored Doom</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-31T20:51:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Back in 2012 ("the year of the MOOC"), when Sebastian Thrun told Wired that, in fifty years time there would only be ten universities left in the world and his startup Udacity had a chance to be one of them, I admit, I laughed. I laughed and laughed and laughed – mostly at the idea that Udacity would still be around in a decade let alone five. The startup, while never profitable or even, in the words of its own founder, any damn good, was hailed as a "tech unicorn" and valued at over a billion dollars... at least until it was acquired by Accenture last year for an undisclosed amount of money and folded into the latter's AI teaching platform. So I'm pretty confident in saying that no, in fifty years time, Udacity will not be around.

But the question of whether or not there'll be ten universities left in the world remains an open one, sadly, as the attacks on education have only grown in the past few years.

I gave a talk back in 2013, speculating what would have to happen to whittle down the number of institutions from the tens of thousands to just ten. We'd have to change college sports in the US, for starters. Ten universities couldn't sustain football bowl games or March Madness. Unlikely – then and now. To reduce higher education to just ten universities, we'd have to scrap taxpayer funding at the state and federal level. We'd have to undermine tenure and faculty control. We'd have to dismantle research institutions. We'd have to ditch graduate student training and funding. Everything would be privatized – research, "content creation" and "content delivery," and credentialing – shifted to for-profit companies, and re-oriented around compliance and job training. All of this, of course, has long been the dream; and, uh, all of this is well under way.

When the technology industry – its entrepreneurs and its investors – gleefully tout the coming end of the college as we know it, they are not so much predicting the future (they're really not that smart or insightful) as doing everything they can to bring that future about, believing that they can profit mightily from education's collapse. It's not that their technology is that powerful or amazing (it's really not that good); it's that these are the richest men running the richest companies the world have ever seen. Their shaping of the future reflects oligarchy, not an oracle.

The Trump Administration, along with Silicon Valley, are fully committed to the destruction of higher education – the destruction of specific institutions to be sure (Harvard and Columbia, most obviously), but to the entire university project. What we are witnessing is an attack on public institutions certainly, but also on the whole idea of education as a public good. It is, as Adam Serwer argues in The Atlantic, an attack on knowledge itself.

Artificial intelligence is absolutely key to this endeavor. (A reminder, once again, that AI was also an integral part of the push for MOOCs – a fantasy about teaching at scale that emerged, according to the mainstream press at least, from Stanford's AI Lab, from Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig, from Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller.)

Artificial intelligence is already embedded in the worst educational practices and has been for a while – the "cop shit" that schools have embraced to "discipline" professors and students (and that continues to do real and substantive harm). Artificial intelligence is already bound up in the promise of "unbundling," of push-button learning and push-button control, of indexing the world's information and making it useful generate ad revenue.

The more recent embrace of "generative" AI by faculty and staff and students (hashtag not all faculty and staff and students) should not come as a surprise. Higher education has been primed for this – the increasing cost of tuition; the inability to push back on the all-too-convenient story that a shitty labor market is the fault of schools (all while agreeing with the narrative that everyone needs a college degree); a culture that is both risk-averse and cutthroat – obsessed with hierarchy and ranking; a sales pitch to student-as-consumer rather than student-as-student; the refusal to move away from lecture-hall pedagogy; "publish or perish"; the spread of bullshit bureaucracy within the academy, much of which involves the data-fication of all aspects of student and faculty life; the swelling of the administrative ranks alongside the advance of austerity; a reliance on adjunct teaching labor and an utter lack of professional, let alone, political solidarity.

The notion that college campuses are overrun with "woke"? Hahahahaha. Certainly, the right wing is mad that the majority of college students are now women, that there are people of color and international students in, not to mention at the front of, the classroom. But conservatives are also clearly very very concerned about any critique of the status quo, not simply those from radical leftism and critical race theory; and they are doing everything they can to prevent people from learning about, even thinking about alternatives. This means seizing control of information institutions, of information infrastructure.

Artificial intelligence – not just generative AI but particularly generative AI – is one way to do this, and it functions quite neatly as a package of ideologies and practices that seeks to destroy education. I mean, I know that many folks think they can bend these technologies to "make easy" and "do good," but under our current political and economic conditions, that is dangerous, if not impossible. I am appalled – truly appalled – to read calls to "reconsider reading" because of AI; to outsource not just teaching but thinking to AI; to shrug off research and writing because of an imitation of inquiry that comes packaged with a friendly chat interface; to allocate care and service with AI; and, in the end, to mock those who question and refuse AI – to actively undermine others' choice and autonomy – just because the marketing copy insists "things are changing so fast" and someone's got the stats to "prove" it.

To be sure, educational systems are broken; they've never fulfilled for everyone (hell, for anywhere near the majority of people) the aspirational promises of "attainment." Or perhaps more accurately, even as college campuses have opened to more students, many schools have held on to the values and practices that exacerbate rather than ameliorate inequality, embodying class distinction rather than knowledge- or self-discovery. And so to address the challenges of AI and more broadly of authoritarianism, schools should not retreat into some mythical, elitist "tradition" – a return to oral examinations and blue books feels like an inadequate and unimaginative response to this crisis. (Not as fucked up as suggesting schools implement Sam Altman's new eyeball scanning technology to stop students from cheating. But still pretty fucked up.)

To retain any institutions of higher education in this onslaught from techno-authoritarianism requires – now and hereafter – we redesign them, reorient them towards human knowledge and human flourishing, away from compliance and cowardice. This means quite literally an investment in humans, not in technology infrastructure – particularly not infrastructure owned and controlled by powerful monopolies, hell-bent on profiteering and extraction, hell-bent on creating a world in which we're all drained of agency and autonomy and, above all, of the confidence in our own intelligence and capabilities. Building human capacity in schools requires supporting more teachers and researchers and librarians, not fewer – people whose understanding of information access, knowledge sharing, and knowledge development exists far, far beyond the systems sold to schools, systems that actually serve to circumscribe what we do and how we think; people who care about people, who care about knowledge as a collective good, who care about education as a core pillar of democracy, as practice of freedom not as a market, not as a credential.

You can't automate or "effective altruism" all that. You simply cannot.

<blockquote>Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it.</blockquote>

I want to write something about navigating the politics of book bans and cellphone bans. Me, I worry less that calls to take away kids' phones and social media access during the school day are "not supported by the science" and more that these initiatives are also efforts supported by some fairly conservative factions within education reform and are, at the end of the day, expressly aimed to curb students' access to information (particularly about LGBTQ topics). So, how does one make a progressive case for a classroom beyond the control of the tech industry and beyond the control of right-wing censors? More on that later..."]]></description>
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    <title>“Worse Than McCarthyism”: Historian Ellen Schrecker on Trump’s War Against Universities &amp; Students | Democracy Now!</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-31T05:17:18+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We speak with esteemed historian scholar Ellen Schrecker about the Trump administration’s assault on universities and the crackdown on dissent, a climate of fear and censorship she describes as “worse than McCarthyism.”

“During the McCarthy period, it was attacking only individual professors and only about their sort of extracurricular political activities on the left. … Today, the repression that’s coming out of Washington, D.C., it attacks everything that happens on American campuses,” says Schrecker. “The damage that the Trump administration is doing is absolutely beyond the pale and has never, never been equaled in American life with regard to higher education.”

Schrecker is the author of many books about the McCarthy era, Cold War politics and right-wing attacks on academic freedom. Her recent piece for The Nation is headlined “Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump.”"

[video on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqH4T55nUCU

See also (referenced within:

"A Tumultuous Spring Semester Finally Comes to a Close
The biggest mistake that some universities have made is to presume that the White House is operating in good faith. It is "
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/02/a-tumultuous-spring-semester-finally-comes-to-a-close

"Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump
The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its alleged failure to fight antisemitism."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mccarthyism-universities-trump-attacks/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>Trump’s Useful Idiots - The Chris Hedges Report</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The media, universities, the Democratic Party and liberals, by embracing the fiction of “rampant antisemitism,” laid the groundwork for their own demise. Columbia and Princeton, where I have taught, and Harvard, which I attended, are not incubators of hatred towards Jews. The New York Times, where I worked for fifteen years and which Trump calls “an enemy of the people,” is slavishly subservient to the Zionist narrative. What these institutions have in common is not antisemitism, but liberalism. And liberalism, with its creed of pluralism and inclusiveness, is slated by our authoritarian regime for obliteration. 

The conflation of outrage over the genocide with antisemitism is a sleazy tactic to silence protest and placate Zionist donors, the billionaire class and advertisers. These liberal institutions, weaponizing antisemitism, aggressively silenced and expelled critics, banned student groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine, allowed police to make hundreds of arrests of peaceful protests on campuses, purged professors and groveled before Congress. Use the words ‘apartheid’ and ‘genocide’ and you are fired or excoriated. 

Zionist Jews, in this fictional narrative, are the oppressed. Jews who protest the genocide are slandered as Hamas stooges and punished. Good Jews. Bad Jews. One group deserves protection. The other deserves to be thrown to the wolves. This odious bifurcation exposes the charade.

In April 2024, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik, along with two board members and a law professor, testified before the House of Representative education committee. They accepted the premise that antisemitism was a significant problem at Columbia and other higher education institutions.

When Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University David Greenwald and others told the committee that they believed  “from the river to the sea” and “long live the intifada” were antisemitic statements, Shafik agreed. She threw students and faculty under the bus, including long-time professor Joseph Massad.

The day after the hearings, Shafik suspended all the students at the Columbia protests and called in the New York City Police Department (NYPD), who arrested at least 108 students. 

“I have determined that the encampment and related disruptions pose a clear and present danger to the substantial functioning of the University,” Shafik wrote in her letter to the police. 

NYPD Chief John Chell, however, told the press, “the students that were arrested were peaceful, offered no resistance whatsoever, and were saying what they wanted to say in a peaceful manner.”

 “What disciplinary action has been taken against that professor?” Representative Elise Stefanik asked in the hearing about Columbia law Professor Katherine Franke. 

Shafik volunteered that Franke, who is Jewish and whose position at the law school where she had taught for 25 years was terminated, and other professors, were being investigated. In an apparent reference to visiting Columbia Professor Mohamed Abdou, she claimed he was “terminated” and promised he “will never teach at Columbia again.” Professor Abdou is suing Columbia for defamation, discrimination, harassment and financial and professional loss.

The Center for Constitutional Rights wrote of the betrayal of Franke:

<blockquote>In an egregious attack on both academic freedom and Palestinian rights advocacy, Columbia University has entered into an “agreement” with Katherine Franke to leave her teaching position after an esteemed 25-year career. The move — “a termination dressed up in more palatable terms,” according to Franke’s statement — stems from her advocacy for students who speak out in support of Palestinian rights. 

Her ostensible offense was a comment expressing concern about Columbia’s failure to address harassment of Palestinians and their allies by Israeli students who come to campus straight from military service — after Israeli students sprayed Palestinian rights protestors with a toxic chemical. For this, she was investigated for harassment and found to be in violation of Columbia’s policies. The actual cause of her forced departure is the crackdown on dissent at Columbia resulting from historic protests opposing Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Franke’s fate was sealed when former Columbia president Minouche Shafik threw her under the bus during her cowardly appearance before Congress.</blockquote>

You can see my interview with Franke here.

Despite her capitulation to the Zionist lobby, Shafik resigned a little more than a year after assuming her position as head of the university.

The crackdown at Columbia continues, with an estimated 80 people arrested and over 65 students suspended following a protest in the library in the first week of May. Former television journalist and Columbia’s acting president Claire Shipman condemned the protest, stating,“Disruptions to our academic activities will not be tolerated and are violations of our rules and policies…Columbia strongly condemns violence on our campus, antisemitism and all forms of hate and discrimination, some of which we witnessed today.”

Of course, appeasement does not work. This witch hunt, whether under the Biden or Trump administration, was never grounded in good faith. It was about decapitating Israel’s critics and marginalizing the liberal class and the left. It is sustained by lies and slander, which these institutions continue to embrace. 

Watching these liberal institutions, who are hostile to the left, be smeared by Trump for harboring “Marxist lunatics,” “radical leftists,” and “communists,” exposes another failing of the liberal class. It was the left that could have saved these institutions or at least given them the fortitude, not to mention analysis, to take a principled stand. The left at least calls apartheid apartheid and genocide genocide. 

Media outlets regularly publish articles and OpEds uncritically accepting claims made by Zionist students and faculty. They fail to clarify the distinction between being Jewish and being Zionist. They demonize student protesters. They never bothered reporting with any depth or honesty from the student encampments where Jews, Muslims and Christians made common cause. They routinely mischaracterize anti-Zionist, anti-genocide and pro-Palestinian liberation slogans and policy demands as hate speech, antisemitic, or contributing to Jewish students feeling unsafe.

Examples include, The New York Times: “Why the Campus Protests Are So Troubling,” “I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice,” and “Universities Face an Urgent Question: What Makes a Protest Antisemitic?”; The Washington Post: “Call the campus protests what they are” “At Columbia, excuse the students, but not the faculty”; The Atlantic: “Campus Protest Encampments Are Unethical” and “Columbia University’s anti-Semitism Problem”; Slate: “When Pro-Palestine Protests Cross Into Antisemitism”; Vox: The Rising Tide of Antisemitism on College Campuses Amid Gaza Protests”; Mother Jones: “How Pro-Palestine Protests Spark Antisemitism on Campus”; The Cut (New York Magazine): “The Problem With Pro-Palestine Protests on Campus”; and The Daily Beast: “Antisemitism Surges Amid Pro-Palestine Protests at U.S. Universities.”

The New York Times, in a decision worthy of George Orwell, instructed its reporters to eschew words such “refugee camps,” “occupied territory,” “slaughter,” “massacre,” “carnage,” “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing,” when writing about Palestine, according to an internal memo obtained by The Intercept. It discourages the very use of the word “Palestine” in routine text and headlines. 

In December 2023, Democratic Governor of New York Kathy Hochul sent a letter to university and college presidents who failed to condemn and address “antisemitism,” and calls for the “genocide of any group.” She warned that they would be subjected to “aggressive enforcement action” by New York State. The following year, in late August, Hochul repeated these warnings during a virtual meeting with 200 university and college leaders.

Hochul made clear in October 2024 that she considered pro-Palestine slogans  to be explicit calls for genocide of Jews.

“There are laws on the books – human rights laws, state and federal laws – that I will enforce if you allow for the discrimination of our students on campus, even calling for the genocide of the Jewish people which is what is meant by ‘From the river to the sea,’ by the way,” she said at a memorial event at the Temple Israel Center in White Plains. “Those are not innocent sounding words. They're filled with hate.”

The Governor successfully pressured City University of New York (CUNY) to remove a job posting for a Palestinian studies professorship at Hunter College which referenced “settler colonialism,” “genocide” and “apartheid.” 

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in his new book “Antisemitism in America: A Warning,” leads efforts by the Democratic Party — which has a dismal 27 percent approval rating in a recent NBC News poll — to denounce those protesting the genocide as carrying out a “blood libel” against Jews. 

“Whatever one’s view of how the war in Gaza was conducted, it is not and has never been the policy of the Israeli government to exterminate the Palestinian people,” he writes, ignoring hundreds of calls by Israeli officials to wipe Palestinians from the face of the earth during 19 months of saturation bombing and enforced starvation.

The grisly truth, openly acknowledged by Israeli officials, is far different. 

“We are disassembling Gaza, and leaving it as piles of rubble, with total destruction [which has] no precedent globally. And the world isn’t stopping us,” gloats Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. 

“Last night, almost 100 Gazans were killed…it doesn’t interest anyone. Everyone has gotten used to [the fact] that [we can] kill 100 Gazans in one night during a war and nobody cares in the world,” Israeli Knesset member Zvi Sukkot, told Israel’s Channel 12 on May 16.

The perpetuation of the fiction of widespread antisemitism, which of course exists but which is not fostered or condoned by these institutions, coupled with the refusal to say out loud what is being live streamed to the world, has shattered what little moral authority these institutions and liberals had left. It gives credibility to Trump’s effort to cripple and destroy all institutions that sustain a liberal democracy. 

Trump surrounds himself with neo-Nazi sympathizers such as Elon Musk, and Christian fascists who condemn Jews for crucifying Christ. But antisemitism by the right gets a free pass since these “good” antisemites cheer on Israel’s settler colonial project of extermination, one these neo-Nazis and Christian fascists would like to replicate on Brown and Black in the name of the great replacement theory. Trump trumpets the fiction of “white genocide” in South Africa. He signed an executive order in February that fast-tracked immigration to the U.S. for Afrikaners — white South Africans.

Harvard, which is attempting to save itself from the wrecking ball of the Trump administration, was as complicit in this witch hunt as everyone else, flagellating itself for not being more repressive towards campus critics of the genocide. 

The university’s former president Claudine Gay condemned the pro-Palestine slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” which demands the right of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel, as bearing “specific historical meanings that to a great many people imply the eradication of Jews from Israel.”

Harvard substantially tightened its regulations regarding student protests, in January 2024, and increased the police presence on its campus. It barred 13 students from graduating, citing alleged policy violations linked to their participation in a protest encampment, despite an earlier agreement to avoid punitive measures. It placed more than 20 students on “involuntary leave” and in some cases evicted students from their housing.

Such policies were replicated across the country.

The capitulations and crackdowns on pro-Palestine activism, academic freedom, freedom of speech, suspensions, expulsions and firings, since Oct. 7, 2023, have not spared U.S. colleges and universities from further attacks. 

Since Trump took office, at least $11 billion in federal research grants and contracts have been cut or frozen nationwide according to NPR. This includes Harvard ($3 billion), Columbia ($400 million), University of Pennsylvania ($175 million) and Brandeis ($6-7.5 million annually).

On May 22, the Trump administration intensified its attacks on Harvard by terminating its ability to enroll international students that make up around 27 percent of the student body.

“This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus,” Kristi Noem, DHS Secretary wrote on X, when posting screenshots of the letter she sent to Harvard revoking foreign student enrollment. “Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.”

Harvard, like Columbia, the media, the Democratic Party and the liberal class, misread power. By refusing to acknowledge or name the genocide in Gaza, and persecuting those who do, they provided the bullets to their executioners.

They are paying the price for their stupidity and cowardice."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The brothers discuss the extent to which Trump represents a possible shift in US policy in the Middle East, contrasting the possibility of new deal-making in the Gulf region and elsewhere (Iran, Syria) with the retrograde pull of Zionist pressure to extend the genocide in Gaza and derail the drive towards profit-driven capitalist stabilization in the region.

Date of recording: May 15, 2025."

[also here:
https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/36610490
https://sites.libsyn.com/495388/zionism-is-an-anachronism ]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-05-07T20:53:33+00:00</dc:date>
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"In 2021, JD Vance, then a candidate for Ohio senate, gave a provocative keynote address at the National Conservatism Conference. Vance’s lecture was an indictment of American higher education: a “hostile institution” that “gives credibility to some of the most ridiculous ideas that exist in this country”. The aspiring politician did not mince words before his receptive rightwing audience: “If any of us wants to do the things we want to do … We have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities.” The title of Vance’s keynote was inspired by a quote from Richard Nixon: “The universities are the enemy.”

The Maga movement, of which Vance, the vice-president, is now at the forefront, has been unabashedly on the attack against campuses, professors and students. Donald Trump characterizes colleges as “dominated by Marxist maniacs and lunatics”, and student protesters as “radicals”, “savages” and “jihadists” who have been indoctrinated by faculty “communists and terrorists”. He has already delivered swift vengeance against campus protesters and non-protesters alike with visa terminations and deportations. This administration has gleefully withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to force colleges to crack down on student dissent.

While Vance paid homage to Nixon and other forebears on the right, he failed to acknowledge that his political lineage had been fighting the university as an enemy for more than 100 years. In fact, reactionary backlash is a feature of two main milestones in the academy’s history: the democratization of admissions and the diversification of curriculum. Trump and Vance’s attacks are part of a longer history of rightwing backlash that follows each time college becomes more democratic.

Before the universities were the enemy

For the first 300 years of US higher education, starting with the founding of Harvard College in the 1630s, the academy was a realm exclusive to the Christian elite. Only an extreme few attended the colonial and antebellum colleges, which were meant as sectarian educational clubs for the sons of the landed gentry. Boys of the Protestant ruling class attended college to socialize, form lifelong friendships and business partnerships, and even link their families legally through intermarriage of their sisters. Young men were exposed to the liberal arts and Christian theology, to be sure, but college was just as much a place to meet other boys like themselves and to be steeped in the cultural norms of their religious denomination and social class. This three-century tradition has been slow to change, and when it has, colleges have met fierce opposition from those who have benefited from the status quo.

Throughout this time, the only people of color or women who appeared on campus were the wives and daughters of the faculty, maids, cooks, laundry workers, servants and enslaved people. By the 1830s and through the end of the century, segregated colleges were established for white women, and free men of color (until the founding of Bennett College and Spelman College, women of color had to “pass” as white to attend women’s colleges), but these institutions were not meant to rival or even resemble the standard colleges. The curriculums were vastly different from the liberal arts instruction of Harvard and Princeton – for girls, lessons were about homemaking and Christian motherhood; for children and adults of color, the practical vocations. Still, college-going by anyone was a privilege. Even at the turn of the 20th century, less than 5% of Americans went to college, and many fewer completed a degree.

Backlash against who gets in

The right’s first rumblings about the college as enemy occurred during the 20th century, as the nature of the campus began to change for the modern era. The right’s grievance at the time was focused on who was admitted. By the 1920s, European immigrant students were starting to matriculate in east coast campuses, particularly in New York and Pennsylvania. The oldest and most prestigious colleges, such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton, sought to severely limit enrollment of the “socially undesirable”, especially Jews, to preserve the campus for old-stock Protestants. A combination of antisemitism and reactionary backlash to the era’s progressivism led rightwingers to cast a suspicious eye on the campus, where all of the decade’s new social science seemed to be emanating. Christian fundamentalists, terrified by the science of evolution, also decried the sinister academic classroom.

By the 1930s, wealthy industrialists joined the chorus of college skeptics. The Franklin Roosevelt administration had assembled its famous “brain trust” of academics whose calculus was needed to pull the nation out of the Great Depression. But industry titans who refused to tolerate Roosevelt’s planned economy responded by creating free-market thinktanks such as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) that produced rival economic white papers in defense of capitalism. Academic departments, AEI’s existence proved, were not the only place where experts could create knowledge. In fact, the right’s thinktanks would become their signature tool for churning out partisan disinformation such as climate crisis denial and race pseudoscience throughout the 20th century.

By the time the second world war ended, Congress needed a way to ensure a smooth economic transition as a mass of veterans returned to the job market. The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, AKA the GI Bill, allowed more than 1 million returning soldiers to delay workforce re-entry by a few years as they entered the classroom. To the horror of many free-marketeers and social elites, the GI Bill in effect doubled the national population of college students, thus diversifying the campus by class, age and in the case of wounded veterans, physical ability (though not by race or gender).

Backlash against what gets taught

On the heels of the democratizing GI Bill, the McCarthyite purge of more than 100 academics for their prewar affiliations with the Communist party has become legend. At the same time, Joseph McCarthy’s young admirer William F Buckley Jr produced his 1951 opus, God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of Academic Freedom, arguing that socialist professors had run roughshod over the campus, indoctrinating students in Keynesian economics and atheism. The academy, to McCarthy, Buckley and their followers, had transformed into a hotbed of anti-Americanism. The right’s understanding that higher education could not be trusted was now well developed: too many people were entering college and learning the wrong lessons.

Following the McCarthy attacks came the storied 1960s, when the campus continued democratizing its admissions and curriculum. Lyndon Johnson’s Higher Education Act of 1965 allowed for greater access to student loans and work-study programs. This allowed additional generations of working-class students to matriculate, especially more people of color, who demanded to see themselves in their lessons. The creation of Black studies, women’s studies, Chicano studies and similar disciplines throughout the 1970s followed militant strikes by student protesters. At the same time, anti-Vietnam war unrest challenged their institutions’ commitments to cold war weapons development. For the right, this was but more evidence of the college as a radicalizing institution.

Increasingly, the liberal center began to agree with the notion that the campus had radicalizing potential. The 1980s and the 1990s marked the bipartisan obsession with culture wars, with the campus as its apparent locus. To the benefit of the right, popular debates about political correctness and identity politics in effect drew attention from austerity measures that had sucked resources away from higher education since the Reagan years. Through the 2000s and 2010, the right revved up its offensives against campus antiwar movements, attacking faculty and students who spoke out against the “war on terror” and protests to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel. By the 2010s, in the aftermath of the Great Recession’s deep cuts to higher education, conservative attacks shifted back to campus social crusades as the right railed against the Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements, and ginned up moral panics over safe spaces, trigger warnings and cancel culture.

Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, conservative rhetoric cast colleges and universities as deeply politicized, inefficient and anti-American. From the 1920s to the 1980s, this generated popular notions that the college should be reformed back to its previous role as a selective space for class reproduction. Since the 1980s, the purpose has been to delegitimize the academy to get mass buy-in to defund, privatize and eventually abolish public higher education. The goal is to return colleges to a carefully constructed environment not to educate all, but to reproduce hierarchy (especially if it can be done for profit).

This has not been an exclusively American process. Autocrats around the world have cracked down on the academy, journalism and venues of arts and culture for the last 100 years. These are places where ideas are shared and traditional conventions are challenged. Crushing them is central to consolidating authoritarian power. Today’s international rightwing leaders want to control higher education, just as they want dominion over all other social, cultural and political institutions. For the first time, a US president is finally willing to deliver the right’s century-old goal.

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, PhD, is a historian of US colleges and universities. She is the author of Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America and host of the weekly American Campus Podcast"]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | M. Gessen: ‘Trump Is Building a Mafia State’ - The New York Times</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["So it’s interesting to me that Trump started with these research grants because research grants are really the easiest thing to wield individually against universities. Divide and conquer is, of course, one of the most important strategies. And so an endowment tax would be more likely to affect many universities across the board. But research grants are granted individually, so they can be pulled individually. But I think we should expect the Trump administration to use the full arsenal of tools as its disposal.

And it has the ability to, if not bankrupt universities — it certainly has the ability to bankrupt universities that don’t have significant endowments, which is most of them. And it has the ability to weaken universities that even have giant endowments, such as Harvard.

The only way for universities to really address this is to come to terms with the fact that there is no way for them, with this administration, to keep their federal money. So what are they going to do knowing that they’re going to suffer huge losses? I don’t think at this point that it’s preventable. What is preventable is an all out destruction of universities as places where young people learn, as places where humanities research is done, as places where intellectual work gets done and disseminated.

The approach that some people have been advocating is for universities to protect their endowments; to try to protect their science funding, to get through Trump’s four-year term, and then hopefully things will get better. I don’t think that’s realistic.

I think if they want to have a university in addition to their endowment, they have to shift their priorities. Universities currently focus on competition — getting as many applicants as possible and admitting the lowest percentage they can; expanding through real estate; growing their endowments; and climbing the rankings in the U.S. News & World Report. They need to set all of that aside and focus on teaching as widely as possible.

In my column, I used the example of Bard College, which remarkably has responded to every crisis it has faced in the last 20 to 25 years by teaching more people. And so Bard College has more degree candidates outside its campus in upstate New York than it does on campus.

These degree candidates include more than 400 people who are studying in prisons in the Bard Prison Initiative, thousands of people who are attending Bard High School Early College, which are free high schools in six or seven different cities in the United States. It’s a really amazing and imaginative way of making the university widely accessible to the largest number of people.

We’ve seen what happens when universities succumb to autocrats. I saw it in Russia where I lived most of my life. We saw it in Hungary where it’s no coincidence that independent universities were an important target of the Orban administration. What happens is that there’s very little intellectual opposition and it is marginalized because it doesn’t have any institutional support, which is part of what universities are for.

One of my books is called “The Future Is History,” and one person I talked to described the net knowledge loss that occurred in the Soviet Union over its 70 years of totalitarian rule. After the Bolshevik Revolution, there was systematic and intentional destruction of the old intellectual class.

As a result, this one economist told me, economists who were trained in Soviet universities in the 1970s lacked the sophistication and knowledge necessary to read Russian economists who had worked in the 1920s. So in a rapidly developing field such as economics, they actually knew less. They had less language, they had fewer tools of self-understanding than people who had worked 50 years earlier.

That’s an extreme but a perfectly realistic example of what happens when you have an autocratic president who wants to destroy knowledge production. So this is not going to stop with Harvard, however the battle of Harvard ends. But resistance on the part of Harvard, I think, makes it more difficult for the administration to expect significant concessions from other universities that have the resources to fight.

I’ve lived through this before — not nearly at this rate. It took Vladimir Putin a year to take over Russian media and almost a decade to really bring universities to heel. To see sort of the same playbook — but vastly sped up — and to see Americans who don’t have the history of living under totalitarian rule, and who think of themselves as freedom-loving, as valuing their rights to free speech and freedom of movement and all sorts of other important things, to see them fold a lot of the time, as happened with Columbia, as happened with many law firms, is incredibly disheartening.

I think the broader lesson is that there’s no such thing as negotiating with this administration. It is always going to demand more concessions until nothing is left of the institution that Trump has targeted."]]></description>
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    <title>What the slave trade can teach us about Trump and US decline | Rudolph Ware | UNAPOLOGETIC - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this episode, historian Professor Rudolph “Butch” Ware joins us for a conversation about the global system slavery built — and how its legacy still shapes the modern world.

He breaks down the myths we’ve been taught about abolition, the spiritual legacy of resistance, and how white supremacy was not just a byproduct of history, but an architecture that still defines our institutions.

We also talk about Gaza, the erasure of truth in public life, and how protest and free speech are being crushed in the U.S.

Butch is running for governor of California, so we ask him if this is the best way to make change, considering that he is operating in a political system that often rewards self-promotion and aggrandisement over fundamental reform.

UNAPOLOGETIC is Hosted by Ashfaaq Carim

Chapters

00:00 The hidden hands behind the slave trade  
03:00 The scale of the Euro-American trade  
06:15 Slavery and modern capitalism  
09:05 Europe's underdevelopment of Africa  
11:50 Early African resistance 
14:00 Commodifying African bodies as currency  
16:15 How European slavery was brutally different  
19:00 Sexual violence and trauma under slavery  
22:00 Destroyed families, lost spiritual legacies  
24:40 Guns, warlords, and destabilised Africa  
27:15 The myth of British abolition  
30:05 African Muslims fight against slavery 
33:30 Gaza and the legacy of colonial brutality  
36:40 White supremacy: These aren’t people  
39:30 End of empire 
42:00 Campus repression and the imperial boomerang  
45:00 Malcolm X and the betrayal of liberalism  
48:00 Why Butch joined the Green Party  
52:15 From mobilising to organising  
55:00 California 2026: Breaking the duopoly  
60:00 A revolutionary political strategy  
65:00 Truth-telling vs political lobbying  
70:00 Student resistance and corporate campuses  
74:00 A generation that’s built different  
77:00 The urgency of third-party power  
80:00 A final word on faith and freedom"]]></description>
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    <title>‘ICE is a Terrorist Agency’ - Cynthia Nixon on Deportation Raids &amp; Trump’s War on Higher Education - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-20T04:52:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["On this week’s ‘We’re Not Kidding’, Mehdi is joined by award-winning actor, activist, and Zeteo contributor Cynthia Nixon for an impassioned conversation about rising fascism under Donald Trump and the lawlessness of ICE, which Cynthia calls a “terrorist agency.” 

Mehdi and Cynthia unpack Trump’s assault on US higher education, the ‘disappearings’ of international student activists, and the lack of opposition from the Democratic Party. They also discuss Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza and the lack of public outrage, particularly from liberals in the entertainment industry, as well as the whole Rachel Zegler/‘Snow White’ controversy.

Finally, Mehdi and Cynthia discuss the Democratic primary for New York City Mayor and the showdown between disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo and State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani.

00:00 - Opening montage
00:58 - Intro
4:02 - Columbia University rolls over for Trump
8:12 - Trump’s war on higher education
9:11 - ICE is disappearing people
15:04 - Democrats’ lack of opposition
20:58 - Trump lets Israel resume war in Gaza
23:40 - Cynthia called for a ceasefire when Hollywood was silent
29:44 - Rachel Zegler, ‘Snow White’, and Disney
30:19 - Why Andrew Cuomo resigned
37:07 - Why Cynthia supports Zohran Mamdani
39:40 - Cynthia’s advice for how to oppose Trump"]]></description>
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    <title>Brooke and Micah Enter the MAGA-verse. Plus, Liberal YouTubers Fight Back. | On the Media | WNYC Studios</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-20T01:24:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Conservative influencers have captured a massive audience on the internet, boasting nearly five times more followers than their progressive competitors. On this week’s On the Media, the hosts spend twelve hours immersed in right wing media and report back on what they saw. Plus, why Democrats are struggling to compete for audiences online. 

[00:00] According to a new study from Media Matters for America [https://www.mediamatters.org/google/right-dominates-online-media-ecosystem-seeping-sports-comedy-and-other-supposedly ], right-leaning shows dominate on social media. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger immerse themselves in right-wing podcasts and Rumble shows to hear how these creators are covering the news of the week. 

[20:26] Brooke and Micah continue their journey into the right-wing online ecosystem, where they encounter how celebrity gossip can be a gateway to controversial political takes. 

[32:41] Host Micah Loewinger chats with left-leaning news content creators Brian Tyler Cohen [https://www.youtube.com/@briantylercohen ] and David Pakman [https://www.youtube.com/@thedavidpakmanshow ] about why Democrats are struggling to reach younger and working class audiences, and how the rise of independent media has left progressives in the dust. 

Further reading:

“The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces,” by Kayla Gogarty
[https://www.mediamatters.org/google/right-dominates-online-media-ecosystem-seeping-sports-comedy-and-other-supposedly ]

The Echo Machine: How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America by David Pakman"
https://www.beacon.org/The-Echo-Machine-P2164.aspx ]]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | Harvard’s Strength and How Far We’ve Fallen So Quickly - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-16T05:13:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The world’s most famous university has done the right thing, and this is major news. It shouldn’t be. But less than three months into the second Trump administration, we are surprised by simple dignity. Capitulation would have garnered smaller headlines.

On Friday, the Trump administration sent a five-page letter to Harvard accusing the university of failing “to live up to both the intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment.” The letter demanded that the university change its governance structure; overhaul its admissions policies; submit to an external audit of the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Divinity School and several other programs that the letter claimed have “egregious records of antisemitism or other bias”; revamp student-discipline procedures; “end support” and withdraw university recognition of several pro-Palestinian student groups and the National Lawyers Guild; and commit to a process of reform running “at least until the end of 2028,” during which the university would submit quarterly reports on its compliance with the government’s demands. In the manner of a racketeer, the letter implied, without quite spelling it out, that if the university failed to comply, it would lose its federal funding.

The letter came from the Education Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and the General Services Administration. These are all agencies that can have a role in overseeing the university. Laws and rules exist for such oversight. They involve negotiations, investigations and, when it comes to federal funding, congressional procedures, complete with periods of public notice. This process is complicated by design — a design intended to protect universities from capricious, politically motivated meddling and to make the withdrawal of federal funding an option of last resort.

But the Trump administration pulls funds first and negotiates second, dispensing with the rest of the process. Its first target was Columbia University. When that school acceded to the administration’s demands, it didn’t get its funding back. Instead, the administration is reportedly considering demanding that Columbia agree to direct government oversight — effectively, a takeover of the university.

Harvard chose a different response from Columbia’s. On Monday its lawyers sent a letter to the administration pointing out that the administration was in violation of the law. “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” the letter said. “Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms.”

No other response should have been possible by the logic of the law — or the logic of academic freedom or the logic of democracy. And yet the Harvard lawyers’ letter sent waves of excitement through academic circles. This is a measure of how low and how fast our expectations have fallen.

One of the people who seemed surprised was Representative Elise Stefanik, a Republican and the self-appointed gendarme of higher education, who issued a statement declaring Harvard the “epitome of the moral and academic rot in higher education.”

Trump administration officials on Monday evening announced what they had suggested: that they will freeze $2.2 billion in multiyear grants.

Still, one hopes that other universities that find themselves in the administration’s cross hairs — and there are many of them now — follow Harvard’s example and make self-respect, and respect for the law, unsurprising again."]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-16T05:13:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Almost three months into the Trump administration’s war on universities, and a year and a half into the Republican Party’s organized campaign against the presidents of top colleges, it is clear that antisemitism and D.E.I. are mere pretexts for these attacks. Like much of what this administration does, the war on higher education is driven by anti-intellectualism and greed. Trump is building a mafia state, in which the don distributes both money and power. Universities are independent centers of intellectual and, to some extent, political power. He is trying to destroy that independence.

There is a way for universities to fight back. It requires more than refusing to bend to Trump’s will, and it requires more than forming a united front. They must abandon all the concerns — rankings, donors, campus amenities — that preoccupy and distract them, and focus on their core mission: the production and dissemination of knowledge. Intellectuals have adopted this strategy to fight against autocrats in other countries. It works.

Because Trump views everything as transactional and assumes everyone to be driven by profit, he has approached universities the same way he approached law firms and, arguably, countries: by deploying devastating financial threats against each one individually, to compel compliance and prevent coalitions. Trump could have started by imposing a tax on universities’ endowments, a move that almost certainly would enjoy broad popular support. That, however, would presumably affect every major university, which could prompt them to band together. Research grants, which are specific to each university, are an ideal instrument to divide and weaken them.

His first target, Columbia University, acceded to his demands within two weeks of losing $400 million in grants and contracts. When Columbia’s first sacrifice didn’t bring back the money, the university made another: its interim president, Katrina Armstrong. That didn’t satisfy Trump, who now reportedly wants Columbia to agree to direct government oversight. He is also brandishing financial threats, separately, at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Cornell, Brown, Johns Hopkins and Northwestern — and still there is no sign of organized resistance. Universities did not come together for a signed statement asserting their value to society. (Even people who have no use for the humanities may see value in medical schools and hospitals.) Harvard alone found the courage to refuse the demands of the administration, which immediately terminated $4 billion in research funding. Other schools did not rally to its defense.

It shouldn’t be this easy to cleave universities from one another, but, so far, it seems to be easier even than making law firms compete for the don’s business and favor. This may be because law firms define success in a way that is at least marginally closer to their ideal function (helping to uphold the rule of law) than the way universities define success is to their ideal function, which is producing and disseminating knowledge. Most prominent American universities, most of the time, measure their success not so much by the degree to which their faculty and graduates contribute to the world as by the size of their endowment, the number of students seeking admission and their ascent in rankings by U.S. News & World Report and others, which assess the value of a university education in part by looking at graduates’ starting salaries. As for professors, while universities do compete for the best minds, they more frequently compete for the loudest names, in the hopes that these will attract the biggest bucks.

In conversations with my colleagues on these pages, I have compared the universities’ current predicament to the prisoners’ dilemma, the game-theory model in which two people accused of a crime have to decide to act for themselves or take a chance and act in concert. It’s a useful model to think about, but it doesn’t quite fit. The universities are not co-conspirators: They are competitors. And they want more than to return to the status quo ante: They want growth. They might even want to win the research funding that the other guy lost.

Trump has threatened to use many different tools against universities: pulling federal financial aid, revoking accreditation, rescinding nonprofit status, imposing an endowment tax and blocking the flow of international students. Nor — as the case of Columbia has already demonstrated — will submission end the attack. Slashing and burning its way through the National Institutes of Health, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Wilson Center, the United States Institute of Peace, the Smithsonian, and others, the administration has shown that it considers knowledge production worthless. In the rare areas where the president — or perhaps Elon Musk — may see value in research, the emergent mafia state is almost certain to distribute funds to its friends. One shudders to think what universities would have to do to fit themselves into that category.

In the late 1970s and through the 1980s, Polish dissidents operated what they called a flying university in apartments across the country. Run by the country’s leading intellectuals, this university wasn’t selective and didn’t charge tuition; its only goal was to get knowledge to as many people as possible. These were the people who went on to build the only post-Communist democracy that, so far, has been able to use electoral means to reverse an autocratic attempt. In the 1990s, Kosovo Albanians responded to the Serbian regime’s forced takeover of their education system by walking out and creating a parallel underground school system, from first grade through university. Classes met in boarded-up storefronts. I met Albin Kurti, the current prime minister of Kosovo, in 1998, when he was a student — and a student activist — in the underground university.

Adopting such a radical approach, and forsaking the usual concerns of development offices and communications departments, would be costly, to be sure. The universities most actively targeted by Trump have the resources necessary to weather such a radical reorientation. But as Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, told me, “Too many of our wealthiest universities have made their endowments their primary object of protection.”

I called Botstein because he has long practiced the approach I am advocating: At Bard (where I taught for three years and continue to work with an archive of Russian media), he seems to respond to every crisis by figuring out ways to teach more people. In the last quarter-century, Bard’s expansion has focused on people who would ordinarily not have access to a university education. The university works in New York State prisons, where it currently has more than 400 enrolled students; in six cities it operates 10 high schools from which students graduate with a Bard associate degree; and it runs microcolleges at the Brooklyn Public Library, in Harlem and at a center for young mothers and low-income women in Holyoke, Mass.

The students at these places, who far outnumber students at the college’s main campus, don’t pay for their university education, are unlikely to boost Bard’s postgraduation income statistics, and probably won’t be able to make significant donations to the endowment in the future. But their lives are often transformed by Bard’s intervention. Many private universities have extension programs and several have prison programs and other community projects, but they tend to position them as charity sidelines rather than part of their core mission. Bard, on the other hand, is a private college that acts like the best kind of public university.

I asked Botstein how he balanced this kind of expansionism with his fiduciary responsibilities as president of the college. He said that he is a “naïve believer” in good ideas and so far the ideas have been good enough to attract philanthropists. He doesn’t think a university has to be rich, he told me — and Bard, with its $270 million endowment, decidedly is not. In his view, universities, “portals to tolerance and the expression of fundamental equality of all human beings,” are essential to democracy. A child of Holocaust survivors who came to this country as a stateless person in 1949, Botstein is particularly sensitive to the ways of an autocratic government. Three weeks into the Trump administration, he called on universities to band together in the face of an existential threat posed by the government. That was three weeks into the first Trump administration.

So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.

Alternatively, you can try to negotiate with a mafia boss who wants to see you grovel. When these negotiations fail, as they inevitably will, it will be too late to ask for the public’s support."]]></description>
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    <title>Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism ‹ Literary Hub</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-12T22:00:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We will call these arrests what they are: abductions by ICE cowards in plainclothes and facemasks. “We are the police,” these terrorists tell Ozturk in the video of her arrest on Tuesday. “You don’t look like the police!” the  person who recorded the video yells from a window, as they strong-arm a terrified Ozturk into an unmarked car.

Ozturk is an international student pursuing a Ph.D. at Tufts University. She also co-authored an article in The Tufts Daily last March calling on her university to acknowledge Israel’s well-documented genocide in Gaza. The current Trump administration, building on the policies of the Biden administration, is hellbent on denying this genocide and silencing people like Ozturk who speak this truth.

We write from our small campus in southern New Jersey, Stockton University, a mid-size public university. We lack the prestige of Columbia and Harvard, UCLA and Tufts, but as in virtually every other institution of higher learning, we are receiving the same message: if not outright appeasement, do not make waves. Keep your heads down. Stay the course.

The course we are being asked to stay is one of silence. It’s an untenable course, even if its history is longer than most Americans want to admit, evidenced by a recent story which made the rounds on social media. The story recounted how, in 1936, Columbia University expelled a student named Robert Burke for organizing a rally outside of the university president’s mansion, in protest of the university’s close ties with Nazism. Burke, the president of his class, was never reinstated, despite 500 of his classmates rallying on his behalf in front of Hamilton Hall, and “vandal[izing]” John Jay Hall with “red paint and rolls of absorbent cotton.”

Hamilton Hall was also the site of massive student protests at Columbia last spring. Students took over the building and renamed it “Hind’s Hall” in honor of Hind Rajab, the six-year-old girl who made headlines in February 2024 after the Israeli army killed her along with the paramedics who had tried to save her. Rajab had called them after the family attempting to drive her to safety—her aunt and uncle, and her three cousins—were murdered by fire from “Israeli tanks.” Hind was hiding amongst the dead bodies of her loved ones when she was killed. Hind was one of more than at least 17,000 children that Israel has killed, so far, in its genocidal assault on Gaza since October 2023.

In late April, 2024, Hind’s Hall was taken from the students when a militarized NYPD forced their way into the building. In unashamed authoritarian fashion, the university barred journalists from the campus just before the police raid, and threatened their own student journalists with arrest. This is the same Columbia University that houses a world-renowned school of journalism, and awards the Pulitzer Prizes.

And the same Columbia University where, it was reported, the dean of that journalism school, the famed cultural critic and historian Jelani Cobb, told foreign students, “Nobody can protect you. These are dangerous times.” Cobb later walked these comments back, claiming he was trying to protect foreign students by advising them, alongside his colleague Stuart Karle, to keep “commentary on the Middle East” off their social media pages. He said times such as these require a balance of “courage and caution,” with caution apparently taking the lead in that meeting, as it has taken the lead in the meetings that we, also academics, have had with the people who run our university. As Columbia’s longer history points out, institutional silence—to say nothing of institutional complicity—has long been “the course.”

But there is no appeasing an openly fascist Trump administration, for we know that no one is safe under fascism. When we keep our heads down and stay the course, the fascists continue to lie, extort like the mobsters they are, and humiliate and attack whoever they add to their list of enemies. Now it is students, like Columbia’s own Mahmoud Khalil, whom ICE agents kidnapped from the Columbia-owned apartment building where he lives, his pregnant wife calling out after him: My love!

Can you hear her voice? Can you hear his, calling back to her? If not, listen carefully, for the list, we know all too well, will only grow, to include your students, your friends, your family members, perhaps also you.

Stockton University prides itself for the first MA program in an American university in the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. We have been teaching our students since 1998 that “Never Again” is Never Again for everyone, that they must never stay silent in the face of persecution and mass violence, that indeed silence is complicity. We have therefore spoken out about Palestine, also before October 2023, as we have about other cases. And we will continue to refuse American higher education’s attempts to silence scholars who make Palestine and Israel’s genocide in Gaza the center of their work, scholars like Dr. Steven Salaita and Dr. Maura Finkelstein, both of whom we have gratefully hosted at Stockton, and who we will host again.

The Canadian journalist Samira Moyheddin recently wrote, “First and foremost… [I speak] the truth on Palestine. Don’t stay in jobs where your knowledge is a liability. Trust me.” To those of us teaching at American colleges and universities, this has a terrifying resonance. This resonance increases every day, and must compel us to say out loud, all the time, that if the university has become a place where our knowledge—of genocide, Palestine, racism, fascism—is a liability, then we must change the university.

As the recent Emergency National Statement to University and College Presidents implores, we must “not capitulate to… the current White House administration’s alarming political campaign against institutions of higher education.” Instead, we must grow coalitions of scholars and students who refuse the “anticipatory obedience” that is currently on display all over the country and on our own campus; who refuse “the Palestine exception” to free speech and academic freedom, so powerfully outlined in the documentary film of the same name, which we screened on our campus this semester; and who refuse now the attack on research and teaching that is expanding quickly well beyond Palestine to deny and suppress settler colonial genocide in the US, the existence of trans people, the intensifying threat of global warming, and the simple scientific truth that vaccines save lives, millions of lives.

We will change the course of a university system that allows for the kidnapping of our students and colleagues. We are told that to refuse this threatens the existence of the university. But if the university’s existence depends upon complying and collaborating with fascism, then we will change the university.

The person who captured Rumeysa Ozturk’s abduction on video shouted at the ICE agents, “this seems like bullshit to me, certainly looks like it.” We will never accept this bullshit, this fascism, this state violence, and we will continue to insist on our role as educators in the struggle for liberation, for truth, and for justice."]]></description>
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    <title>Trump freezes Cornell, Northwestern funding: How colleges can leverage endowments | Vox</title>
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Rich universities can afford to push back against the administration. Here’s why they aren’t."

...

"The Ivies have the financial wherewithal, in both endowments and sterling credit scores that enable borrowing, to fight Trump’s illegal demands — if they so choose.

If they don’t, the consequences for American higher education will be severe. The list of fabulously wealthy universities is top-heavy with famous names, but not especially long. The Trump strategy of intimidation is to use violent punishment to make a few high-profile examples and intimidate everyone else into complying in advance. This is already working with Big Law.

The handful of institutions at the top of the higher education pyramid have to decide, sooner rather than later, whether to use the fortunes they inherited to stand up on behalf of millions of students, faculty, and workers nationwide, and defend the values of intellectual freedom that have produced the greatest higher education system in the world. It may be risky, and expensive, and not what anyone signed up for. But those are the circumstances that require courage most of all. "

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What will his second term mean for Israel, Palestine and the pursuit of justice?

This week on The Big Picture Podcast, we welcome back Norman Finkelstein, political scientist, author and legal scholar, to talk about the aftermath of the US elections, Israel’s war in Gaza and shifting tactics of the Palestine movement.

Finkelstein has spent his career chronicling in excruciating detail the Israel-Palestine conflict from the perspective of international law, and feels that much of the conversation has framed it the wrong way. 

It’s not that Israel is betraying the laws of war, it’s actually “following the logic of genocide”.

His most recent book ‘I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It’ took a surprising turn, scrutinising the prevalence of identity politics and cancel culture, which Finkelstein argues has undermined movements for justice and left the space open for malicious actors."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2024-11-10T21:48:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Please join us online on November 10 at 12 p.m. ET for a book launch with Radhika Desai, John Bellamy Foster, and Gabriel Rockhill, moderated by Jennifer Ponce de León. This will be to celebrate and discuss the first English translation of Domenico Losurdo's groundbreaking work "Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn," edited by Gabriel Rockhill with an introduction by Rockhill and Ponce de León. This event is co-sponsored by Monthly Review and the International Manifesto Group.

The book can be ordered via Monthly Review Press: 
https://monthlyreview.org/product/western-marxism/ "]]></description>
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    <title>Faculty Members Suspended From Harvard’s Main Library After ‘Study-In’ Protest | News | The Harvard Crimson</title>
    <dc:date>2024-10-25T03:40:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Harvard Library suspended roughly 25 faculty members from entering Widener Library for two weeks after they conducted a silent “study-in” protest in the library’s main reading room last week, an extraordinary disciplinary action taken by the University against its own faculty.

The faculty study-in protested the library’s decision to similarly suspend student protesters who conducted a pro-Palestine study-in last month. The University’s decision to suspend students from the library had already come under fire from free speech groups, including the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard.

During the faculty study-in, professors silently read materials on free speech and dissent while placing signs on the tables in front of them.

The faculty protest forced University administrators to choose between maintaining the disciplinary precedent it set by suspending student activists or taking action against their own colleagues.

Though the University has previously disciplined faculty members for engaging in academic misconduct or violating policies on sexual harassment, the decision to suspend professors’ from a library for protesting appears to be unprecedented. The Crimson was not able to identify any past instances where Harvard told a group of faculty members they could not access a particular library as a result of their activism.

The suspension notification sent to faculty members, obtained by The Crimson, was largely the same as the email sent to student activists last month, though it doubled down on the move to suspend study-in participants by citing “the University’s response in prior situations.”

Faculty members were told their borrowing privileges from the library had not been affected and that they would still be able to access other locations in the library system. However, the email said they would not be allowed inside Widener — the University’s flagship library.

The faculty protesters were also told they could appeal the suspension to Martha Whitehead, the head of the Harvard Library system, by Oct. 29 if they felt the suspension was made “in error.”

Harvard spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain declined to comment on the suspensions, saying the University wouldn’t comment on “individual matters.” Harvard Library spokesperson Kerry Conley referred The Crimson to a Thursday statement from Whitehead.

In her statement, Whitehead wrote that while libraries support free speech and civil discourse, they are “not intended to be used as a venue for a group action, quiet or otherwise, to capture people’s attention.”

“In the study-ins in our spaces, we heard from students who saw them publicized and chose not to come to the library,” she continued. “Seeking attention is in itself disruptive.”"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Shafik’s appointment as the 20th president of Columbia University in 2023 was historic. She is the first woman to occupy that role, and its first leader “of Arab Muslim origin.” According to identitarian logic, Shafik’s gender and her ethnic, religious, and immigrant background should have rendered her especially sensitive to social-justice concerns and uniquely capable of responding to the crisis in a constructive way.

But Shafik is far more than an immigrant woman of Arab and Muslim background. She is also, for one thing, a literal baroness. And prior to her role at Columbia University, she served as the vice president of the World Bank, the deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the deputy governor of the Bank of England, and the vice chancellor of the London School of Economics. This background is much more essential for understanding how events have played out at Columbia University than Shafik’s ethnicity, faith, or gender.

In light of her professional history and affiliations, it would be easy to view someone like Shafik as endowed with extraordinary power and freedom. It would be easy to assume she has wide discretion in shaping how events play out on campus and beyond. This is true, in a sense. But it isn’t the full story. 

The sociologist Max Weber argued that while bureaucrats wield impressive power and social prestige, the influence and honor they enjoy is never truly theirs to possess. Instead, it typically derives from their office. If they are pushed out of their position or institution, their wealth and status tend to vanish precipitously, as well. In order to avoid this outcome, Weber concluded, bureaucrats tend to avoid alienating anyone with the capacity to strip them of their rank and prestige (even to the point of compromising their integrity or alienating large swaths of the rest of society to ingratiate themselves with elite gatekeepers).

Another great 20th-century sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, described people like Shafik as the “dominated faction of the dominant class.” They are elites, to be sure, but their position is contingent on continued patronage from wealthy people or the state—and on association with prestigious institutions, such as universities or media outlets, that themselves are dependent on patronage from other elites and the government. As a consequence, although some dominated elites may regard themselves as rebels or speakers of uncomfortable truths—and in some cases, they leverage their clout to push elites or institutions in particular directions—they also tend to know their limits, and generally take care not to cross any lines that would result in their expulsion from the corridors of influence. 

Insofar as she is eager to cling to her position at Columbia and advance to other comparably prestigious posts later in her career, Shafik isn’t free. She has little choice but to go, hat in hand, and prostrate herself before lawmakers and donors. When Democratic lawmakers called on her and the trustees to clear the encampments or resign, and President Biden condemned the students occupying Hamilton Hall, Shafik knew what she had to do. And she acted as she was expected to on the day these calls went out. 

In responding to the protests as she did, Minouche Shafik wasn’t acting as an individual following whatever convictions she may (or may not) have held. She was acting as an agent of Columbia University, which serves a very particular set of functions in society. Columbia University is many things. Some have described it as a massive hedge fund with a world-class research university attached to it. Superficially, this isn’t far from the truth. Nearly half of Columbia’s $13.6 billion endowment is invested in equities, with another third in hedge funds. Another 14 percent of the endowment is invested in real estate, rendering Columbia the largest private landowner in the Big Apple. Put simply, Columbia University is a vast enterprise. However, its main business is not speculating on stocks and real estate—that’s more of a side hustle.

Columbia’s core product is the reproduction and legitimation of social inequality. This is the source of the university’s multibillion-dollar endowment, derived primarily from donations by alumni and their families, who are invested in that enterprise’s success. Universities in general, and elite schools in particular, exist largely to launder wealth into perceptions of “merit.” They help the children of wealthy and well-connected families reproduce their social position and feel like they “earned” it. 

As my academic adviser Shamus Khan has powerfully illustrated, students from non-traditional elite-school backgrounds—like me—play an important role in this legitimation scheme. As long as at least some are attending because of their exceptional grit or talent, the children of privilege who make up the majority of the student body can come to believe that they are at a school like Columbia because they are geniuses and scrappy bootstrappers, too—because those are apparently the type of people the university selects for. These same impressions then allow elite institutions to primarily hire the rich kids who graduate from these schools under the auspices of “merit”: By virtue of graduating from Columbia, they must be especially gifted (and not merely privileged). 

As I detail in my forthcoming book, the truth is that elite institutions like Columbia primarily select for highly conscientious and capable conformists. If you are sufficiently talented and prolific, the conformity expectations can be slackened slightly (a win-win that helps other conformists understand themselves and the institution as more “edgy” than they really are); and if you are sufficiently wealthy, deficits in capability or conscientiousness can be overlooked or worked around. But the modal student is not an idiosyncratic genius or a billionaire kid who failed his way to the top.

Instead, as Noam Chomsky pointed out decades ago, colleges and universities—and consequently, the symbolic professions—are overwhelmingly composed of the kind of people who showed up to school every day and on time, had the right kinds of extracurriculars, turned in their assignments punctually and according to the instructions, mastered regurgitating the information that the teachers provided in a form that said teachers found aesthetically pleasing. The kids who craved approval from teachers and other authority figures, who took pride in their grades, believing that their academic records say something meaningful about themselves. Those who did well on standardized tests, often believing (again) that their high scores say something meaningful about themselves. Those who were willing to delay gratification virtually indefinitely.

This is how such students end up with the sterling attendance and disciplinary records, the high GPA, and the glowing letters of recommendation that ease their path to selective colleges. These same dispositions allow them to flourish in college and, later, in the symbolic professions. As economist Bryan Caplan has demonstrated, the main signal telegraphed to employers by college degrees is that these are the kind of people who are willing to endure drudgery, degradation, and busy work (such as is required to obtain a college degree); who see things through to completion (which is why a degree, even an associate’s degree, gives a bigger boost on the job market than several years of schooling without a degree); who will follow the rules; who will complete tasks on time and according to specifications.

These selection patterns, which define higher education writ large, are most pronounced of all at top-tier institutions. Places like Columbia are filled with people who have spent little to no time outside of what Daniel Markovits called The Meritocracy Trap (the title of his 2019 book on the subject). Everything is a competition. Everything is a chance to build one’s brand. Everything is a risk or opportunity to move up or down the ladder. Even social-justice activism. 

I say all this as someone who received a doctorate from Columbia. And I must confess, I loved my time there, and continue to feel a deep affection and gratitude toward the institution. While enrolled, I was offered unparalleled resources. My mentors and colleagues were truly excellent. The undergraduates I worked with were bright, earnest, ambitious, and highly invested in getting good grades (if markedly less committed to learning—and unaware of and unbothered by their ignorance). For all these reasons, it has been heartbreaking to see the campus riven by conflict, locked down, and purged. Compared to most other campuses, the way things played out at Columbia was extreme. However, as my mentor Saskia Sassen emphasizes, extreme cases can “make sharply visible what might otherwise remain confusingly vague.”"

...

"Comparatively, most of the people castigating the demonstrators seem largely indifferent to the catastrophe in Gaza and seem to possess an even less coherent vision of social change. President Biden, for instance, stated that although peaceful protest is protected in America, “dissent must never lead to disorder.” But Stonewall, now widely celebrated by Democratic politicians, was a literal riot, and ostensibly “nonviolent” civil-rights campaigns have always had an intimate relationship with violence and coercion. The idea that social change primarily occurs through positive, pleasant, and non-disruptive means is silly and out of step with most of human history."

...

"In truth, there is very little at stake on any side of the struggles at Columbia University, and ultimately, everyone will be just fine. Sooner or later, most of the students will proceed to their well-remunerated jobs—protesters, counter-protesters, and neutral parties alike. Whether Shafik manages to hold on at Columbia or ultimately gets pushed out, she will spend the rest of her days filthy rich. Likewise, even in the unlikely event that Davadai is terminated for his many indiscretions, he already has a promising second career lined up as a right-aligned influencer. Columbia, too, will fare well. The school is older than America, and it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. All those people vowing not to send their kids to the Ivies are lying to others and possibly themselves (or perhaps their offspring were unlikely to gain admission in the first place).

The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard observed that “behind every image, something has disappeared.” The Ivy League Intifada is no exception. The only people in this story who face genuine suffering have been almost completely absent from “the discourse” over the last several weeks: namely, the people of Gaza.

While Americans obsess over tents on the Columbia quad, hundreds of thousands of displaced people are sleeping in tents in Rafah. They are not “unsheltered” because the university revoked their access to the campus, but because their homes and communities were leveled by a campaign of destruction with few analogs in modern history. And even their tents are being bombed.

It isn’t even possible in theory for Gazans to carry out campus demonstrations, because every single university in Gaza has been destroyed by Israel. Instead of dealing with the inconvenience of being unable to access the dining hall or hang out on the quad—and rather than stressing out over whether they’ll land their dream job or if others are saying mean things about them (that make them feel emotionally “unsafe”—the people of Gaza are witnessing their loved ones killed in front of their eyes, are undergoing amputations without anesthesia, and literally starving to death. There is nowhere left for them to flee, but a ground invasion seems imminent despite Hamas ostensibly agreeing to a ceasefire.

It is obvious why Biden, House Republicans, and others determined to support Benjamin Netanyahu’s war would rather talk about student protesters instead of the fate of Gaza. Mainstream media outlets, meanwhile, recognize that campus culture-war stories get far more clicks and are far easier to produce than responsible reporting on bleak international events. 

For their part, the student activists seem to genuinely want to raise awareness about the plight of Gazans—albeit ideally in a way that enhances their own clout. In a recent editorial for The Guardian, leaders of the Columbia protest movement urged everyone to listen to their perspectives, and elevate their voices, so they might raise the salience of the crisis in Gaza. The actual conflict they are ostensibly trying to end received only a single oblique mention in the last sentence of the piece. The rest of the article was focused on the struggles Columbia students have faced and calls for them to get still more attention relative to other stakeholders. In truth, Columbia students don’t need your attention. They don’t need your support. They don’t need your solidarity.

Attention is finite. Energy is finite. Time is finite. Resources are finite. Save your concern and your efforts for the crisis in Gaza. Don’t let the farce at Columbia obscure the tragedy that the protests were supposed to call attention to in the first place."]]></description>
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    <title>The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism - The Atlantic</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is."

...

"The new technocrats claim to embrace Enlightenment values, but in fact they are leading an antidemocratic, illiberal movement."

...

"in 1961, in his farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned the nation about the dangers of a coming technocracy. “In holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should,” he said, “we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system—ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.”

Eight years later, the country’s first computers were connected to ARPANET, a precursor to the World Wide Web, which became broadly available in 1993. Back then, Silicon Valley was regarded as a utopia for ambitious capitalists and optimistic inventors with original ideas who wanted to change the world, unencumbered by bureaucracy or tradition, working at the speed of the internet (14.4 kilobits per second in those days). This culture had its flaws even at the start, but it was also imaginative in a distinctly American way, and it led to the creation of transformative, sometimes even dumbfoundingly beautiful hardware and software.

For a long time, I tended to be more on Andreessen’s end of the spectrum regarding tech regulation. I believed that the social web could still be a net good and that, given enough time, the values that best served the public interest would naturally win out. I resisted the notion that regulating the social web was necessary at all, in part because I was not (and am still not) convinced that the government can do so without itself causing harm (the European model of regulation, including laws such as the so-called right to be forgotten, is deeply inconsistent with free-press protections in America, and poses dangers to the public’s right to know). I’d much prefer to see market competition as a force for technological improvement and the betterment of society.

But in recent years, it has become clear that regulation is needed, not least because the rise of technocracy proves that Silicon Valley’s leaders simply will not act in the public’s best interest. Much should be done to protect children from the hazards of social media, and to break up monopolies and oligopolies that damage society, and more. At the same time, I believe that regulation alone will not be enough to meaningfully address the cultural rot that the new technocrats are spreading.

Universities should reclaim their proper standing as leaders in developing world-changing technologies for the good of humankind. (Harvard, Stanford, and MIT could invest in creating a consortium for such an effort—their endowments are worth roughly $110 billion combined.)

Individuals will have to lead the way, too. You may not be able to entirely give up social media, or reject your workplace’s surveillance software—you may not even want to opt out of these things. But there is extraordinary power in defining ideals, and we can all begin to do that—for ourselves; for our networks of actual, real-life friends; for our schools; for our places of worship. We would be wise to develop more sophisticated shared norms for debating and deciding how we use invasive technology interpersonally and within our communities. That should include challenging existing norms about the use of apps and YouTube in classrooms, the ubiquity of smartphones in adolescent hands, and widespread disregard for individual privacy. People who believe that we all deserve better will need to step up to lead such efforts.

Our children are not data sets waiting to be quantified, tracked, and sold. Our intellectual output is not a mere training manual for the AI that will be used to mimic and plagiarize us. Our lives are meant not to be optimized through a screen, but to be lived—in all of our messy, tree-climbing, night-swimming, adventuresome glory. We are all better versions of ourselves when we are not tweeting or clicking “Like” or scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.

Technocrats are right that technology is a key to making the world better. But first we must describe the world as we wish it to be—the problems we wish to solve in the public interest, and in accordance with the values and rights that advance human dignity, equality, freedom, privacy, health, and happiness. And we must insist that the leaders of institutions that represent us—large and small—use technology in ways that reflect what is good for individuals and society, and not just what enriches technocrats.

We do not have to live in the world the new technocrats are designing for us. We do not have to acquiesce to their growing project of dehumanization and data mining. Each of us has agency.

No more “build it because we can.” No more algorithmic feedbags. No more infrastructure designed to make the people less powerful and the powerful more controlling. Every day we vote with our attention; it is precious, and desperately wanted by those who will use it against us for their own profit and political goals. Don’t let them."

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    <title>Chartbook 279: Columbia University's &quot;crisis&quot; - a political economy sketch map.</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Emblazoned with a stirring quote from Charles A Beard, the diagram seeks to capture the flow of power in the institution where I have worked since 2015. One of the interesting effects of the diagram is to contextualize some of the figures - notably President Shafik - who have become so central to reportage. Instead, the student analysts seek to focus our attention on corporate power structures and flows of capital and control that spread out beyond the University.

What the flier makes clear is that at least for a substantial part of the protest, the issue at stake is political economy in the full sense of the word. What they seek to highlight is the way that a powerful educational institution like Columbia is embedded in networks of power and influence, which range from global high-finance, to the military-industrial complex, “Zionist cultural organizations” and local real estate development in Manhattan and specifically Harlem, our immediate neighbor.

The team behind the pamphlet, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, is a coalition of 89 student organizations that claim to represent 3,000 students, a significant fraction of the Columbia student body. CUAD did not come into existence on October 7. It has been mobilizing on campus for some time. CUAD lobbied then-President Bollinger already in 2016. And it does not operate only by means of protests and provocations. It seeks to combine analyses like the one in the flier, with activism and electoral mobilization."

...

"As the graphic makes clear, the judgement of Moody’s on Columbia’s financial situation is resounding. Columbia is not just investment grade. It is squarely situated in the top tier of American universities that issue debt that is triple-A rated. Very few private debt issuers enjoy such a high standing. As Moody’s makes clear, that rating depends on a comprehensive assessment of Columbia’s balance between revenue flow and costs. That calculation includes its relations with alumni and donors. If Moody’s issues a downgrade warning, Columbia would be miles away from serious financial stress, but it would mean that the current crisis had entered a new stage of seriousness."]]></description>
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    <title>The Campus Does Not Exist — Parapraxis</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Harvard University professor Walter Johnson, in an essay about experience of working at Harvard since October 7 titled “Living Inside a Psyop”—the psyop being, precisely, “the campus”—calls this the “two-step maneuver” of campus panic: (1) Look over here, (2) Do not look over there. Overreact to this, overlook that.[1] Look at the US, not at Palestine. Look up at what is happening in the clouds over Cambridge, Massachusetts, where a plane trails a banner declaring, “HARVARD HATES JEWS”; do not look at what is happening on the ground in Gaza, do not look at the masses of the displaced, the bereaved, the starving, the wounded, the sick, the dying, and certainly do not look at the dead, murdered with artillery supplied by the US government and funded by American citizens’ taxes. When student protestors chant, “From the river to the sea,” hear a speculative antisemitic canard; do not hear a reference to an actual river, an actual sea, an actual and ongoing history of dispossession and occupation.

Of course, one objective of such a protest is often to direct public attention in exactly the opposite direction. A protest demands that we look toward it, but only so that it can reroute our gaze to the thing being protested. The two-step hypostatizes the dynamic speech act of protest, dissevering it from its referential function so that it cannot achieve its goal. The cameras of the mass media turn away from the referent and toward the protest, which is presented to the audience as the actual crisis worthy of our attention, fury, and terror. In the present instance, glossing the protest as antisemitic occludes its intended referent from public view.

It is easy enough to see how such a maneuver furthers the propaganda aims of both the American and the Israeli governments. What is less obvious, though, is why the camera turns toward the campus in particular. The American media’s obsession with—its panic about—the campus has pervaded coverage of the war, to the point that this coverage ceases, really, to be coverage of the war at all.

To some extent it is a matter of supply generating demand. The US is, after all, a nation whose local newspapers consist mainly of syndicates of a very few for-profit conglomerates, while social media platforms subject users to the (again profit-motivated) whims of an algorithmic apparatus which is, at best, only glancingly and accidentally concerned with the tedious business of actually informing people. That narratives about “campus antisemitism,” “the campus free speech debate,” and “campus culture wars” are manufactured to appeal to consumers and thereby drive revenue, however, still does not explain why the narrative is appealing. Harvard, for instance, educates about 0.047% of the total current American undergraduate population. Yet, somehow, the assertion that this institution “hates Jews” occupies a more prominent place in public discourse than the fact that a considerably greater percentage of the total Palestinian undergraduate population has been bombed out of existence or turned refugee. The war on Gaza is being rewritten for American audiences as a “campus war.” Often quite literally: for example, in March 2024 the Atlantic, a sort of conservatism-laundering machine for liberal elites, ran an essay by a Stanford University sophomore under the title, “The War at Stanford.”[2]

This relocation of the theater of war to the campus refashions the very real violence visited upon Israelis and, in vastly greater numbers, upon Palestinians into an ambient anxiety about American Jewish safety. Are American Jews, the media asks, safe on campus? Do they feel safe on campus? (Note that unsafety and its perception are treated as interchangeable concerns.) I am not suggesting that anyone is necessarily wrong to feel unsafe on any campus, after October 7 or before it. Nor am I suggesting that there is not antisemitism in higher education—recall the poster in my hallway—although it is true that its prevalence is overstated when all anti-Zionist speech is counted as antisemitic. My point, rather, is that regardless of the actuality of these phenomena, it is rather odd that they should prove so newsworthy. What is it about the notion that something is happening, or might happen, “on campus” that so engages the national imagination?

The scope of this question exceeds the post-October 7 moment, for all its proximate urgency. Campus panic is a sustained note in the American public conversation; from Vietnam to Gaza, it has never let up. Reliably, every few months something happens “on campus” that the media inflates to the status of a national emergency: a speaker is invited, a speaker is disinvited, a speaker is not disinvited, a professor teaches, a student complains, a protest takes place. The media offers these incidents as scandals so fascinating and disturbing that they eclipse even a genocide.

Perspectives from a range of academic disciplines can help us understand campus panic’s persistence. From political economists, media critics, American historians, and sociologists, we can learn about higher education as a switching-point of class mobility and reproduction; about how legacy media institutions serve as clearing-houses for the best, or least most expensively, educated Americans; about simmering populist anti-intellectualism and resentment of the academy; about the history of student protest; about ballooning tuitions and debts; and about the contradictory status of the most elite schools as emblems of American identity. However, we also need to be more precise about what we are talking about when we talk about “the campus.” For campus panic is, specifically, campus panic. It is the campus which we have collectively cathected—not the university, not higher education. For instance, the trope that circulates in the media today is not “university antisemitism,” but “campus antisemitism,” and this rhetorical pattern holds across the history of campus panic. Anecdotally, I find it exasperatingly difficult to get non-stakeholders to care very much about “the university,” a social institution which is, in fact, suffering an ongoing polycrisis (albeit not the one narrated in the discourse of campus panic). Yet some of the same people who could not care less about “the university” get alarmingly excited about “the campus.”

To explain this, we will need to think psychoanalytically—to think about fantasy and desire. We need, in short, a theory of the campus. What follows is a series of preliminary theses intended to contribute to such a theory."

...

"Thesis: The campus is a fantasy and a media trope. The camera produces the campus. The camera is at once a security camera—like the one installed in my department’s hallway—and the camera of the mass media. Each camera, the police and the media, feeds back into the other, in the paranoid spiral characteristic of panic: acceleration, escalation, inflation. (That these words also describe the tendencies of university tuitions, endowments, and administrator salaries is, perhaps, not merely coincidental.)"

...

"Thesis: The campus is no institution, and it is every institution. But it is some institutions more than others. "

..

"Thesis: The campus is the fantasy of an inside. There is the campus, and then there is the outside. On campus/off campus. But the boundary between the campus and its outside is a permeable membrane. The quadrangle, with its gated walls, is, after all, not really where the space of the university ends. The empirically existing campus is integrated into its environs, so that it is difficult to say just when one is off campus. An enclosure, the campus is never quite closed enough. For this reason it must be policed. There lurks always the possibility that the real world will penetrate the campus, violate the campus."

...

"Thesis: The essential components of the campus, therefore, are not the classroom, the library, the laboratory, or even the dormitory, but rather the security camera and the cruising police SUV. The aesthetics of the quadrangle launders these paraphernalia: the ID card with the magnetized strip is allegorized as the ivy-adorned brick edifice."

...

"Thesis: The campus has essentially to do with students. “The campus” exists for students; as the number of undergraduates in the US increased, so too did the media discourse on “the campus.” Professors figure into campus panic only insofar as the media takes their research and public statements to indicate something about their relations to, influence on, students."

...

"Taken together, my theses suggest that what is most libidinally threatening to the social order about protest “on campus” is that the students themselves incite and participate in it. In this situation there are no non-affiliates to target or to blame for the threat posed to the Child. But still, the illogic of the panic demands a non-affiliate, and so a non-affiliate is, inevitably, produced—from within the campus.

Consider the letter sent by Columbia University president Minouche Shafik to NYPD Deputy Commissioner Michael Gerber on the morning of April 18, in which Shafik requests that the NYPD arrest the 108 Columbia students participating in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” a peaceful occupation of one of the lawns of the Morningside Heights campus’s main quadrangle. One day after being grilled by the same congressional committee that set in motion the downfalls of Liz Magill and Claudine Gay, Shafik writes: “[…M]ore than 100 individuals are currently occupying the South Lawn…. The group has been informed numerous times and in writing that they are not permitted to occupy this space, are in violation of the University’s rules and policies, and must disperse. All University students participating in the encampment have been informed they are suspended. At this time, the participants in the encampment are not authorized to be on University property and are trespassing.”[10] In these sentences we read Shafik rhetorically and bureaucratically producing non-affiliates where before there had been only affiliates. By suspending the students, Shafik made them into non-affiliates, “individuals” available for state violence.

Stripping the protestors of their student status by sovereign fiat, Shafik casts them in new roles in the fantasy of the campus: no longer the Child, now they are the dangerous non-affiliates that threaten the Child. She continues: “The actions of these individuals are in violation of University rules and policies, including that they have interfered with the operation of the University, refused to identify themselves, refused to disperse, set up tents on campus space, failed to comply with policies, and damaged campus property. The continued encampment raises safety concerns for the individuals involved and the entire community. … I have determined that the encampment and related disruptions pose a clear and present danger to the substantial functioning of the university.”[11] When “these individuals” were students, their actions were technically permissible; now that they are non-affiliates, they are “in violation,” “raise safety concerns,” and finally “pose a clear and present danger.”

Danger to what? “To the substantial functioning of the University.” Which University functions were endangered—if a “University function” even can be endangered—by the Gaza Solidarity Encampment? NYPD Chief John Chell pointed out to the Columbia Spectator that this assessment was Shafik’s, not the NYPD’s: “[…T]he students that were arrested were peaceful, offered no resistance whatsoever, and were saying what they wanted to say in a peaceful manner.”[12] What the encampment did do was occupy the lawns in front of Columbia’s main library. It was an image that was in danger. The protest disrupted, in other words, nothing so much as the fantasy of “the campus” itself. For the sake of “the campus,” 108 students peacefully protesting a genocide were suspended and arrested.

Psychoanalysis teaches us that fantasies are powerful, but it also teaches us that once we recognize them for what they are, we can free ourselves, at least a little, from their tyranny. When we see that the campus is a fantasy, we can begin to resist the pull of panic. The Gaza Solidarity Encampment itself demonstrates this lesson. The students involved in the protest refused to be cast as the Child in a national fantasy. Camped out on the campus, they instead occupied that fantasy. Offered a panicked, irrationally terrified future of security for some, they courageously demanded a future of freedom for all.

The day after the arrests, the official death toll in Gaza passed 34,000."]]></description>
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[Mohammed el-Kurd on the concerted effort to distract from a genocide by use of false accusations about language]]]></description>
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    <title>Mustafa Barghouti - his life story, why Oslo failed, the media, racism and Gaza | UNAPOLOGETIC - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-03-21T21:11:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Over the course of a lengthy discussion, Mustafa Barghouti recollects his life from growing up as a child in Ramallah, which was then controlled by Jordan, to the present Israeli assault on Gaza. 

Topics covered include how the 1967 War and subsequent Israeli occupation changed his life and propelled him to become a medical doctor and into political activism, studying medicine abroad. He describes life under occupation and the hopes that the First Intifada brought, the failed Oslo peace process and his role in those negotiations, how he was shot in 1996 by Israeli security forces, the decades-long brutality of the Israeli army, the Second Intifada, the death of Yasser Arafat, Palestinian elections in 2006 and the civil war, the siege of Gaza. He talks about the 7 October, how the media perceives the current assault by Israel on Gaza, and the future of Palestinian liberation.

Filmed on 22nd February 2024

Topic breakdown
00:00 - Intro
00:37 - Growing up in Ramallah
02:44 - Impact of the 1967 War and occupation
05:55 - How occupation changed regular life
07:17 - How long did you think the occupation will last
08:54 - Why did you study Medicine in Russia
10:54 - Student life abroad
13:25 - Life after returning home
15:00 - The occupation tightening it's grip on Palestinians
17:24 - Contributions as a medical doctor
18:55 - Palestinian resistance before the 1987 uprising
21:38 - The first uprising and hope
23:37 - Circumstances around the Oslo peace process
26:35 - Israel's policy of breaking bones
28:30 - The Oslo accords
33:00 - How Oslo was doomed to fail
34:31 - Netanyahu come to power in 1996
37:10 - thoughts on the 2nd uprising
39:20 - Reflections on Yasser Arafat
41:39 - 2006 election and civil war and siege
45:27 - The situation on October 6th
49:02 - October 7th and crisis in Gaza
55:13 - Response to Israel's genocide and US position
59:45 - appearing in the media
1:11:00 - Media bias and racism
1:14:30 - Israel's intentions in Gaza
1:18:30 - Inadequate world reaction
1:22:15 - the way forward for Palestinians
1:24:00 - hopes for the year 2050"]]></description>
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    <title>&quot;A kind of intergenerational civil war&quot; with Peter Beinart - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-03-16T17:13:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh0eg3IJN3M</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The brothers welcome Peter Beinart to the show to discuss the role of the Gaza genocide in the generational transformation taking place in the United States (including within Jewish communities across the country), as well as the campaign to redefine antisemitism to include criticism of Zionism and the Zionist state, and the many pathways leading from Zionism to democracy and freedom for all."

[also here:
https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/30396718
https://sites.libsyn.com/495388/a-kind-of-intergenerational-civil-war-w-peter-beinart ]]]></description>
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    <title>New Film Examines American Jews’ Growing Rejection of Israel’s Occupation - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The new documentary Israelism examines the growing generational divide among Jewish Americans on the question of Palestine, with many younger Jews increasingly critical of Israel and less supportive of Zionism. Simone Zimmerman, one of the protagonists of the film and a co-founder of the group IfNotNow, says she grew up being told that supporting Israel was central to her Jewish identity, but that collapsed once she visited the Occupied Palestinian Territories and saw the system of apartheid under which millions live. “It’s so deeply contrary to our values as Jewish people to support this disgusting oppression and denial of freedom,” she says. We are also joined by Erin Axelman, co-director and one of the producers of Israelism, who says Zimmerman’s journey mirrors their own and those of many other young Jews who realize they “must fight for the freedom and equality of Palestinians while also fighting antisemitism.” The film is on a 40-city screening tour in Canada and the United States after previous efforts to ban the screenings on several campuses.

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