Same, but I have the memory of something else to compare this to. I wonder if students today just assume what they're getting is all there is?

I ask myself, 'Cui bono (and impress myself with this Latin) from truly educated students?'
It's not any kind of organized interest group that I can think of.

On the other hand, when you ask who benefits from an uneducated rabble, a list springs to mind immediately.

This is a *paradigmatic* example of what conservatives mean by “self defense” aka I have a weapon and i felt like killing someone

Recruiters at Harvard's Institute of Politics:

2/ Hegseth is committing boater fraud.

if your solutions to improve the economy are 1) subsidize homebuying (as if we don't do that already) 2) ban China from buying single-family homes (fake problem) and "fewer immigrants" you're not a rebel truth teller in the Republican party you're actually an establishment figure with no new ideas

I’m just very disappointed when experts like law professors (or public health experts, as another recent example) act more like stooges than guides.

It’d be different if he stuck around and actually responded to some of the criticism but as far as I can tell he dropped his take and noped out. People have schedules and IRL obligations but the conversation is far from finished.

You need to take responsibility as a citizen and that means maybe think a bit longer before you credulously weigh in.

I understand the value of the first amendment but like every other legal regime it loses its value if it can’t be implemented in a rational and practical way. Some of its defenders do it no favors by claiming that this essay implicates first amendment protections.

It was a bad faith effort to oust a trans instructor. It worked because people are cowards and the religious right always gets an unwarranted benefit of the doubt.