At the hearing, I asked whether they recognized the category of the frivolous charge, that is, a charge that, even if true (which this was not), would not be worth pursuing. No answer.

BREAKING: The AAUP condemns today’s faculty arrests at NYU. “This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses nationwide.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson. ⬇️ www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

Some very, very useful numbers to feed into analyses of the election. Thanks to Caroline Levine. www.aaiusa.org/library/amer...

Columbia's Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action has invited me to a hearing to answer the charge that I said the following: at Thanksgiving I am uncomfortable passing food to members of the IDF. How will the EOAA determine the tone in which those words were said, if they were?