UCLA Econ prof Michael Chwe sewed this banner himself. We’ve held it many times, in support of immigrants’ rights and grad student strikers. Now that police have confiscated it, Michael will sew another one, including the names of the faculty and staff arrested while carrying it.

A mind at work

I feel like I'm losing my mind a little: people understand that 'occupying buildings on campus' is, like, one of the most common forms of studen protest for decades and not some devious new ploy devised by professional anarchist plotters, right?

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There should be a name for his kind of reasoning: fallacy of misplaced abstraction or something. Basically he built his career on it.

The Stanford encampment as of 4:37 pm local on Wednesday. Just gonna document what it looks like every time I pass it.

Just because allegory is apparently dead, let me tap the sign one more time: yes, this is about randos sounding off about “US campuses”

The speed/deliberateness of escalation is what sets this apart. I looked up the 2015 sit-in of the Stanford President’s office demanding fossil fuel divestment: universities deal with this *all the time*. Not only do they have choices. They know them well. mercurynews.com/2015/11/20/sit…

Also! If you don't already know about it, look up why Samuel L. Jackson got expelled from Morehouse.

r.i.p. Paul Auster, seen here as a Columbia undergrad participating in the 1968 uprising in a shot from Peter Whitehead’s THE FALL

RIP Paul Auster nytimes.com/2024/04/30/boo…

I’m a centrist, moral panic is my love language

It seems the state has solved the long-standing problem of student dissent.

Ugh we have like three hours on here before the Germans wake up and explain to us why this is good actually

If you have somehow talked your way into seeing this and thinking “good” or “finally”: kindly have your head examined

Anything before this tweet (2017), as far as I’m concerned, is the Aughts.

Credibility is two-way. Higher ed. leadership (to a lesser extent faculty) have lost public credibility in recent decades. But those of us who work at colleges also have no reason take seriously the (broadly speaking) Atlantic + NYT technocrat line on higher ed either.

Panic attacks about the canon almost always signal a deep lack of familiarity with and an even deeper lack of confidence in the civilization they claim to defend.