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U Chicago: free speech! Me: Great so the university is gonna commit to pro-Palestinian speech? UC: nope Me: um making sure marginalized students have their voices heard? UC: nope Me: fighting book banners and govt censorship? UC: nope Me: what kinds of speech then? UC: you know which ones
The University of Chicago has received a $100M anonymous gift to do “free speech” work. As Kagan said in Janus, the right seeks to “weaponize the First Amendment,” pushing a libertarian version of free speech that helps the wealthy. Why is Chicago keeping the donor secret? 1/2
Gift will build upon the University’s longstanding leadership in free expression while expanding the Chicago Forum’s impactful work
Ann Arbor is widely considered one of those liberal bubbles, like Cambridge or Berkeley. I sincerely hope the residents there, students included, are raising hell over this.
School counselor said to a Muslim student that she does not "negotiate with terrorists"
Ann Arbor Schools has agreed to a resolution with the U.S. Dept. of Ed. after a counselor told a student she does not "negotiate with terrorists."
CALL FOR PAPERS: the Early-Career Behavioral Econ Conf is awesome. I had so much fun when I went in the past. Nice small group who give great feedback Deadline Dec 15 sites.google.com/site/ecbecon... 📉📈#econsky
this is the sort of thing that’s happening while FIRE does a PR blitz about Amy Wax’s right to declare black people inferior
A Pakistani province introduced incentives to get courts to quickly dispose off divorce cases. Sounds like an interesting policy and maybe there is a study there x.com/voicepkdotne...
Do you know what it feels like to face bombing around tents where you live and you don't know where to take your children to save them 😥😟! My sister speaks to me 😪 I wish I can do something for them 😥😥
Hardly the first evidence of this but Columbia has gone completely ‘round the bend. They put three deans on suspension because some creep from the Free Beacon looked over their shoulders and saw them writing snarky texts?!? You do not take orders from these people!
