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In a time of war, resurgent authoritarianism, and an escalating assault on higher education, the language of “institutional neutrality” has emerged not…
Dramatic Hollywood-style trailers, Lego parodies and fake images have gone viral as warring parties try to control media narrative. US President Donald…
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” – Isaac Asimov Israel and the United States are now at war with Iran, a…
The campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion is not simply a dispute over campus bureaucracy or the specter of so-called “woke” politics.…
In the MAGA aesthetic, cruelty appears in multiple registers, most visibly in the “Mar-a-Lago face”: plastic smiles, exaggerated cosmetic enhancement, and beauty-pageant…
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A university that confuses comfort with care, risks becoming an institution of managed ignorance or a laboratory for indoctrination. Iam increasingly unsettled…
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