1+ week, 2+ day ago   (549+ words) It’s hard to take a joke when our entire economy and financial system is the joke. We’re blessed/cursed to be living in a very peculiar era in which parodies are taken with the utmost seriousness, an absurdist state of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (688+ words) It was a really funny and informative moment on CNN, and like most funny and informative moments on CNN, it did not involve anyone who calls themselves a “journalist” and works for CNN. It involved a failed sports “journalist”, a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (20+ words) RADAR... (Third column, 3rd story, link) Related stories:Trop storm could reach hurricane strength as it approaches Texas, Louisiana...CONE......

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (620+ words) The tragic death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday, an accused fabulist, has been widely cited as a parable about race. But the story tells us something broader about academia, where skin color plays zero role. That’s the lesson of another…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (147+ words) —TCW in The Atlantic - “France’s Best Argument Against Racism Isn’t Working” —Robert Nisbet - The Quest for Community —TCW - Self-Portrait in Black and White —NYT - “A Decorated Historian’s Research Comes Under Fire” —Jesse Singal in The Dispatch - “The Cascade of Dysfunction…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (165+ words) The issues at Bates and other colleges require a multifront approach to affirm academic freedom. - Robert Shibley Academia’s Problem Is Bigger Than Tenure’s Decline Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Two weeks ago, former Bates…...

3+ week, 8+ hour ago   (384+ words) Since then, British academics and media are attempting to find a scapegoat for Arday’s death. Nathan Confas was suspended from his position at Ghent University in Belgium, which sparked a response from the United States Ambassador to Belgium in an…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (22+ words) A very interesting piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here are two brief excerpts, but they can't do justice......

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (60+ words) —– Click here: Modernity News The post The ‘Pindia Challenge’: A Stark Warning To The West appeared first on LewRockwell. The ‘Pindia Challenge’: A Stark Warning To The West Rupert Lowe’s Mass Deportation Plan: ‘We Will Deport Them’ Catherine Austin Fitts…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (146+ words) Imagine a world in which the late Cambridge University professor Jason Arday had released a widely hyped book published by Simon & Schuster, one of the Big Five publishing houses, then embarked on a book tour, and nobody said anything. For…...