Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him.
Gabriel Winant
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Oh no, what horrible news. Bea was an absolute lifelong fighter for a better world, a link to several previous eras of organizing going back to the Great Depression, a constant presence that felt infinite. Her loss is monumental.
People who might not be down with the ultimate end goal of policing knowledge (Wilentz, Appiah) have nevertheless signed on to the effort because they have particular axes to grind within their disciplines against intellectual work they personally don’t like.
The Vanderbilt report and Trump’s attack on the NIH and NSF are part of the same right-wing effort to attack the authority of all peer-reviewed knowledge so that they can police what researchers write, say, publish, and think to ensure it complies with corporate-friendly aims.
Excellent op-ed from our own Mark Levin on UChicago's deal with Anthropic:
To the extent that people are angry (as they very much should be!) about the horrific war on science, they also need to get angry about this outrageous war on the humanities. Both attack peer reviewed research that doesn’t happen to fit with a center-right worldview.
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We were asked this year to believe this, that the imposition of curricular and expressive controls over teaching at Lab had no bearing on academic freedom on central campus:
Now we find out that the vice provost whose job is the interpretation/enforcement of the Kalven Report (the principles ostensibly being implemented at Lab), has all the while been writing a document on how universities need to assert more central control over academic departments
