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This is a guest essay from Z.E. Silver. Follow him on Substack. If I am not for myself, who is for me? But if I am for my own self [only], what am I? And if not now, when? - Pirkei Avot 1:14 Shalom, But if I am
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In what appears to be an almost impossible academic publication, three self-identified queer graduates from Yale-NUS (Yale University-Singapore) have managed to get one of their “zines” published by Taylor & Francis—one of the top five academic publishers in the world. The paper — titled “The Anthropussy: An Ecolesbian Manifesto” — was
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Dr. Licon teaches Philosophy at Arizona State University. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from University of Maryland in 2019, and he writes on issues in ethics, epistemology, and political economy. See his newsletter, Uncommon Wisdom. “The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the
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After a DOGE-inspired student journalism experiment, Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh now faces a disciplinary hearing for emailing 3,805 administrators and asking them to justify their bureaucratic roles. Shieh sent a single email to all non-instructional staff at Brown University, simply asking: “What have you accomplished this week?” The
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A professor and Chair of the Brass Department at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass. — a school often compared to The Juilliard School in NYC — is facing its own antisemitic cause célèbre at the behest of upset parents. Nicholas Payton, a Grammy Award-winning musician took up a
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Shalom Chaverim! The term “Orientalism” is mostly associated with the infamous Columbia professor Edward Said, and became a bedrock of collegiate international relations curriculum. What many might not know is that prior to Said loading the term, Oriental Studies was a rather innocuous pursuit, no different than that of any
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What this post won’t do: Explore what the right or legal approach should be for hate speech, harassment, or immigration laws. What it will do: Present findings from controlled experiments into how public standards for punishment shift depending on the identity of the perceived victims and aggressors. It started
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A curriculum writer who works at a lesson-planning agency for middle school teachers has published a paper arguing that math classes “perpetuate whiteness," sparking concern among parents who want to keep ‘wokeism’ and DEI out of the classroom. Michael Lolkus— who holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University — made
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The University of California-Davis is inviting DEI-aligned PhDs to apply for a tenure-track position to teach “Palestine Studies” courses in the school’s anthropology department over the next few years. The school hopes to hire a professor by June 1. The chosen candidate will earn up to $149,000 annually—
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A professor at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the hallowed Ivy League schools founded by Benjamin Franklin, has been terminated after posting dozens of antisemitic and anti-Zionist cartoons on social media. The adjunct professor, Dwayne Booth, who joined Penn’s Communication School in 2015 and goes by the pen
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An American nurse from the Portland, Oregon area will likely be facing an uphill battle in securing a new job after her antisemitic and pro-Hamas comments on Instagram were exposed, showing that she’d refuse to treat Jews and blaming Israelis like Shiri Bibas for their own deaths. Registered Nurse
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Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian Arab graduate student at Columbia University, was recently arrested by federal authorities for his overt support of Hamas—a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. Khalil was more than a protester; he was an ideological operative using the American university system as a staging ground for anti-Semitic