Let this finally be what kills the reflection paper.

'His story is not just of one man but of a politics, and an elite, that has never quite come to terms with its culpability [in] the ever-widening crises of the 21st century.' Jeet Heer epic for Books and the Arts on Marty Peretz and American liberalism thenation.com/article/cultur…

While we're on the subject of how much of the last decade's speech discourses were bullshit, the amount of sudden gore that's on the timeline daily now suggests we can call a wrap on the trigger warning business once and for all.

I have some thoughts on Marty Peretz and liberalism. thenation.com/article/cultur…

Didn't Paul Berman go out of his way to defend the disastrous war in Iraq, framing it as a war against Islamofascism/totalitarianism? chronicle.com/article/we-hav…

So Princeton University decides to hold an informal faculty meeting about the University’s response to student protests. But they refuse to let the majority of faculty in the room. The room is at capacity, they say. And they say they’re interested in dialogue. Outrageous.

Please consider submitting to our OPEN CALL for essays, interviews, oral histories, audio/video recordings, artwork, poems, or other forms of media that share reflections, analysis, and testimony about the campus encampments and protest movements.

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Washington Square Park has been taking over by Stalinist neo-liberals: self-criticism in the name of the corporate university.

Welcome to IOU, a series exploring how student debt impacts the day-to-day lives of young Americans

Jacqui G. speaks to 4 ppl affected by diff dimensions of this crisis: generational debt, private loans w/crazy interest, debt but no degree + on debt strike teenvogue.com/story/student-…

'and please donate to the annual fund!'

University donor class authoritarianism, in action. nyunews.com/news/2024/05/0…

God bless them, but tenured Ivy League faculty do not know what a 'strike' is.