My sense from talking to friends this morning is that a lot of white Ivy League grads are in the serious but not literal camp. They’re desensitized to extreme rhetoric (globalize the intifada, defund the police, freeze the rent) and don’t actually think these things will happen.

…migration from Oberlin.

Meanwhile, at the NYPL

Does any discipline outrank Classics in having so many insiders who forthrightly desire to annihilate it?

Is any department of language instruction other than Classics happy to award degrees to persons who haven't bothered to learn the languages it teaches?

I’m once again wondering why this is so hard…

He’s a faculty brat, identified as African American, and STILL didn’t get in? Must be dumb as rocks (but we already knew that).

Never took it personally when my name was mispronounced award

Case in point: we once had a truly brilliant applicant for our PhD with Latin Greek and other modern languages, fine prose stylist, first-class recommendations from well-known scholars. The only problem was that he was a priest and would wear a Roman collar. "Wouldn't fit in" was

We’re proud to unveil the Manhattan Statement on Higher Education, which recapitulates the crisis of the universities and calls on President Trump to enact six principles for reform. The time for decisive action is now. thefp.com/p/the-presiden…

The Manhattan Statement on Higher Education lays out a plan for reforming America's universities that is targeted, popular, and ready to go. We call on President Trump to issue an executive order making these principles a precondition for federal funding. Let's get it done.

The Manhattan Statement is circulating through the White House and generating enormous buzz. I'm hearing reports that Ivy League presidents are starting to come to the table, and our principles are in the negotiating sweet spot—targeted, popular, practical. Let's get it done.

My magnum opus has arrived. Magnum as in 1249 pages, 800 illustrations, most in color, 75 maps, well over a hundred extracts from primary sources, chronologies and lists of key terms. I wrote Volume 1, from the ancient Greeks to the Renaissance, and my oldest friend in academe,

At a Harvard event, an administrator allegedly had a separate list of Jews who had RSVP’d. Each one was classified as “protestor” or “peaceful.”

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U of Chicago is going to merge humanities departments and downscale its language offerings in part because...the institution spent too much money on construction projects. Its endowment: over $10 billion. Are there any leaders in higher ed who *want* to save the humanities?

The Origins Project podcast War on Science interviews continue, to celebrate release of the book. 20 podcasts in 20 days. Day 9. How Identity Politics Rewrote Classics w Solveig Gold & Joshua Katz. Premiere in 10 minutes. youtube.com/watch?v=reDynJ…