Personally I think this sounds very bad. time.com/6972021/donald…

As the president of this esteemed university, allow me to underscore our longstanding commitment to free expression before gracefully pivoting to an announcement that we will of course have the police arrest students who peacefully protest Israel's bombardment of Gaza civilians..

Whenever I start to miss academia, I remember that there was a time when I would have nodded solemnly along with those around me upon hearing Sartre's description of boxing as “a binary praxis of antagonistic reciprocity.”

Know who loves these practical guides to being more disciplined w/our food shopping? The conglomerates raking in profits from their price hikes & shrinking package sizes: is.gd/zSMgOj. (Just as oil cos. urge us to take individual responsibility for conserving energy.)

'It is what it is': learned helplessness in an impoverished community facing extreme climate change: is.gd/A7za1s. Not so different from shrugging about the GOP's assault on democracy, or surrendering one's privacy to Big Tech: a sense of normalcy purchased at any cost

The #NYTimes has helped me realize that the real victims of Israel's ongoing massacre of Palestinian civilians are the pro-Israel American college students who feel uncomfortable with protests on their campuses.

From the archives: 'The Back-to-School-Night Speech We'd Like to Hear'- sort of a Cliff's Notes to progressive education in the form of a fictitious principal's informal remarks to parents: alfiekohn.org/blogs/back-to-…

New research confirms that believing in conspiracy theories is likely to generate a negative attitude toward vaccines (despite overwhelming evidence of their efficacy and safety), but, interestingly, it's even more likely to work the other way around: tinyurl.com/3extfp5v

A psychologist explaining why punishment backfires was interrupted by a skeptical teacher who had been assigned a kid with a police record. 'I held him on a short leash to keep him out of trouble. And I know my strictness worked: Right after he left my class he was back in jail!'

US share of the world's population: 4%
US share of the world's military spending: 37% (>183 of the other 193 countries combined)(is.gd/BXlkAw)
US share of weapons sales: 42% (is.gd/n4aGAi)
US share of foreign military bases: 75-85% (is.gd/jwyBu4)

Early-childhood expert Lilian Katz: 'Intellectual dispositions may be weakened or even damaged by excessive and premature formal instruction': ow.ly/LxFkd. (That all-important distinction between the intellectual & the merely academic applies to students of all ages.)