Rick Halpern
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Historian, Author, Cook, Photographer, critical thinker. photos:
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
23 days ago
They've learned nothing and they intend to learn nothing.
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G Elliott Morris
about 1 month ago
The entire Democratic strategy debate â "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? â is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New:
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Under Administrative Pressure, Faculty Committee Ends Womenâs Research Symposium | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard administrators pushed a faculty committee to cancel a long-running, biannual symposium featuring tenure-track womenâs research, citing legal concerns about hosting a single-gender event, accor...
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/2/20/fas-ends-womens-symposium/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQNtr1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEet6VR8jbdEt48dKxQ727-eolPGf9-B_D6B3oAP0eSGaWXLSSCcQgh9X0SY48_aem_Qv1jsJDKPIoMXE7GwW_9gQ
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First, The New York Times makes the case for attacking Iran (thank you, Bret Stephens). And now let's keep going: How about busting some public sector unions?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...
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Opinion | Mamdani Will Need to Change How He Governs
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/opinion/democrats-public-sector-unions.html
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They tried to smear him as an antisemite â but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple
When I look at Mamdani, I donât see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/01/zohran-mamdani-new-york-mayor-antisemitism
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Caleb Ward
7 months ago
I've also deleted my academia-dot-edu account. Find all my papers as free PDFs (and apparently a zoomed in picture of my mug) at
www.calebward.xyz
Please spread the word to your colleagues about the academia scam, also those who are not as online as we are.
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Kafka-land at UC Berkeley
The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOEâs Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/judith-butler-letter-uc-berkeley/
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Tom Nichols
7 months ago
Nothing at Fox is fireable
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It's 11 September again, and let's not forget that other world historic event that shaped the late 20th century and the early 21st. Remember, another world is possible -- that is a vital thought for these times.
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Opinion | âProfound and Abiding Rageâ: Canadaâs Answer to Americaâs Abandonment
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/opinion/canada-america-allies.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Ballston Beach, again
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The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of âlecturersâ: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-crisis-of-the-university-started-long-before-trump/
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Kara N. Slade
8 months ago
I didnât know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.
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Storm Clouds Over Ballston
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Longnook at its sublime best this morning!
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Karl Jacoby
8 months ago
"The Columbia University Board of Trusteesâ concessions to the Trump administration are a disaster . . . . Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat." National AAUP Statement on Columbia
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Columbia University Settlement an Unprecedented Disaster
Never in the history of our nation has a university so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. All who care about higher education must stand up and fight back against this unprecedented continuin...
https://www.aaup.org/news/columbia-university-settlement-unprecedented-disaster
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Bret Stephensâs Recent Attack on the âGenocideâ Charge Is Both Stupid and Immoral â Democracy in Dark Times
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Bret Stephensâs Recent Attack on the âGenocideâ Charge Is Both Stupid and Immoral
Thursday, July 24, 2025 Last week the New York Times published a powerful op-ed by Omer Bartov, the distinguished scholar of the Holocaust, entitled âIâm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See ItâŠ
https://jeffreycisaacdesign.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/bret-stephenss-recent-attack-on-the-genocide-charge-is-both-stupid-and-immoral/
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Balkinization: Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Ed
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regulation-by-deal-comes-to-higher-ed.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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My view today. Not a bad midsummer post
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Editorial | Penn descends into fascism
The Daily Pennsylvanian Summer Editorial Board argues that Pennâs concessions to the Trump administration set a dangerous precedent for academic freedom.
http://www.thedp.com/article/2025/07/editorial-penn-descends-into-fascism
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George Conway âïžđșđž
10 months ago
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Stefan Kipfer
10 months ago
Among the many benefits of bike lines: fewer accidents, effective mobility, more cycling, boosted transportation equity for those without cars. From the York U team Mahtot Gebresselassie, Joanna Silva, and Steven Lum.
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Why bike lanes should remain on Ontarioâs roads
Efforts to remove bike lanes in Toronto could result in more injuries and make transportation more challenging for people.
https://theconversation.com/why-bike-lanes-should-remain-on-ontarios-roads-249150
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Bruce Dorsey
10 months ago
Truly one of a kind. Sly's music lives on!
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Sly Stone, Family Stone Architect Who Fused Funk, Rock, and Soul, Dead at 82
Sly Stone, the wildly inventive musician and head of Sly & the Family Stone who fused rock, funk and soul, has died at age 82.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sly-and-the-family-stone-dead-obituary-1234810064/
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
10 months ago
This is really, really bad. They shouldn't be deploying the Marines, and doing so without clear orders is incomprehensible.
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Paul Cohen
10 months ago
they want to turn LA into 1972 Derry, Portland into 1956 Algiers, and New York into 1989 Beijing
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Regina Schrambling
11 months ago
Todayâs NYT euphemism for âlied,â in South Africa story, is âmade debunked claims.â
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Jon Cooper
11 months ago
Patrick Gaspard was the U.S. ambassador to South Africa from 2013 to 2016. đșđž đżđŠ
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Union Square
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Walking the Dog
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Butcher, Muslim Quarter, Xiâan
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Streetcar Series
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Marisa Kabas
11 months ago
Disappearing an elected official.
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Joanne Freeman
11 months ago
The Library of Congress is a research library. The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress. Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research. NO childrenâs section. Even the general public has very limited access.
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Revolution's Newsstand
11 months ago
'Dark Towns' by Mary Heaton Vorse from Men and Steel. Boni and Liveright Publishers, New York. 1920. A chapter from Vorseâs marvelous book on the Steel Strike of 1919 sees her travel with Mother Jones through the Steubenville, Ohio area.
revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/05/07/d...
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âDark Townsâ by Mary Heaton Vorse from Men and Steel. Boni and Liveright Publishers, New York. 1920.
Mingo Junction, just south of Steubenville. A chapter from legendary labor reporter Mary Heaton Vorseâs marvelous book on the Great Steel Strike of 1919 sees her travel with Mother Jones through thâŠ
https://revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/05/07/dark-towns-by-mary-heaton-vorse-from-men-and-steel-boni-and-liveright-publishers-new-york-1920/
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4 May. We remember: Allison Krause Jeffrey Miller Sandra Scheuer William Schroeder.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
11 months ago
We have to reject bad-faith framing: this is not some grassroots organization of students who are dissatisfied, itâs a well-connected and extremely well-funded coalition of folks who look down on academiaâs role in society and hate its influence and perceived power.
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Jordan T. Camp
11 months ago
Listen to the newest episode of conjuncture in which geographer Hashem Abushama discusses Stuart Hall, Palestinian geographies, and conjunctural analysis with
@cheatherton.bsky.social
. This season is co-sponsored by
@antipodeonline.bsky.social
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trinitysocialjustice.com/palestine-is...
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Emerging From a Collective Silence, Universities Organize to Fight Trump
A recent group statement showed that the nationâs academic leaders, at first reluctant to oppose the presidentâs moves, are beginning to unite.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/us/trump-university-presidents.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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11 months ago
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WATCH: Trump Turned on Canada Again Yesterday, And It Backfired Spectacularly
Trump Says Canada Doesnât Work â But the Facts Say Canadians are Smarter, Richer and Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier Lives - Trump is Full of S***
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/watch-trump-turned-on-canada-again?r=j3ati
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Losing DOJâs Civil Rights Division
On Tuesday, Reuters reported that leadership at the Department of Justice has reassigned âabout a dozen senior career attorneysâ in the Civil Rights Division to perform perfunctory tasks usually assig...
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/losing-dojs-civil-rights-division?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=mm6&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Trump's Loss, Toronto's Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north - Toronto Life
Theyâre coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage...
https://flip.it/qNhEnn
11 months ago
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Who the f cares?
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...
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Opinion | How I Describe Myself Politically These Days
America needs to figure out how to dominate the industries of the future. Call me a âWaymo Democrat.â
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/opinion/waymo-democrat-advanced-manufacturing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Opinion | The Very American Roots of Trumpism
The historian Steven Hahn puts Trumpism in the context of Americaâs long history of illiberalism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-steven-hahn.html?smid=bsky-nytopinion
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