I don’t think Apple is so malicious ;-). Also, nobody got cancelled. They’re going back to teaching!

If the past year has taught me anything about institutional dynamics, it’s that change never happens on its own. It needs pressure from within and from outside. I trust Harvard’s faculty and students to do their part, but they should remember that the world is also watching right now.

Thanks for the work you’re doing. It’s so important to have people like you speak up!

That cancellations happen on frequently, on all sides, line doesn’t hold up under closer scrutiny. Palestinian writers & academics face systematically fewer platforms and more frequent disinvitations & restrictions. The muting of Palestinian voices is a long-documented pattern.

Apparently, ashamed but not enough. Is the institution ashamed or business as usual?

Trauma by itself doesn’t produce genocide. But genocide doesn’t come from a psychologically healthy mind either. In Hitler’s case, biographers have linked some of his insecurity to bodily issues, not as a cause of the Holocaust, but as part of his disturbed psychology. I’m ending here this exchange.

If I say a kid struggled at school and lost a year, but later we learn he was severely myopic & just needed glasses, that’s not biological determinism. There IS a treatment: glasses. Same with trauma: it can shape a person’s psychology for the better or worse. (In this case, the latter.)

Sure, he tapped into existing hatred & structures, but I think we can agree that someone without severe psychological disturbance wouldn’t conceive of exterminating an entire people. That’s not a “trauma-free” mind at work.

I didn’t read it as a biological argument, just about insecurity and trauma spilling into behaviour, through bodily issues.

Also: can we have public funding for science, please.

Summers famously blamed the lack of women in economics and STEM on our supposed stupidity, saying we lay the IQ points].

But as these emails show, he personally was expecting female students to have sex with him in order to advance in their careers.

I suspect he did not expect this of men.

Europe isn’t immune to anything happening in the US. Maybe it’s affected to a lesser extent, but it has its another set of problems.

Unfortunately, no. Europe has its own cases. Not long ago, a young woman took her life after reporting misconduct by a well-known male professor & many others spoke up online + privately afterward. And many women “learn“ that if they want to stay in academia, they’re expected to say yes…

Great to see departments showing interest in reduced-form researchers. For a while, “reduced form” felt like an academic slur.

I was looking at the version on your website. Tremendous work and I can see why the referees liked it. Congrats on the R&R.

I see your point on intergenerational elasticity, mostly among natives, if I read your table correctly. I was thinking more of the broader sense of the American Dream: that anyone, regardless of origin, can become anything which is harder to reconcile with Austria’s current (& past) structure.