Thoughtful review of The Radical Fund in @dissentmag.bsky.social by @cdunning.bsky.social. (Will hand-wringing keep the left from doing what’s required to build power while in exile?) dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

On the one hand, this is great. But I feel about this like I do about heartwarming "go fund me" campaigns. It's great that people are stepping up, but public goods should be supported with public funds.

This is why relying on charity to fund essential services is a truly wild policy choice.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

All universities right now need to be making this case to the public why universities and our scientific research matters. But let’s promote our humanities and social sciences too!

“Harvard now faces one of the most consequential choices in its history: Submit to extortion and make itself complicit in the most profound assault on academic freedom and constitutional governance of our time—or go to court. The stakes are high, but the choice should not be difficult.” (Fixed link)

Seems that Paul, Weiss has forgotten the legacy of one of its named partners: Lloyd Garrison (1897-1991) as in Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. Great-grandson of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and staunch defender of free speech, civil rights, and labor unions.

#edusky colleagues, higher ed or K-12, please share. We are at Columbia, but we know that this struggle matters for education across the lifespan. A Statement from Teachers College Faculty on the Attack on American Education docs.google.com/document/d/1...