Universities and donors alike benefit from donations, but academic freedom depends on a giant firewall between donors and hiring decisions. Good on the UNC faculty for insisting on this, and it’s a sad irony the donor could insist so much on one principle while violating another.
Wood, McPherson, and the few others so misunderstood the nature of this conflict. Nice work.
(Orders of magnitude more historians endorse the project, even if they acknowledge a few inevitable errors. Which by the way Wood, McPherson, and every historian also makes.)
Yiiiiiikes.
Donor Hussman: White people don’t get enough credit for the Civil Rights Movement.
It’s precisely this demand of white people to be at the center of all American history that the 1619 Project was all about.
Area publisher and donor didn’t consider Freedom of Information laws.
Truth.
You see, Tucker, there’s entirely too much opinion in journalism today!
Good on this trustee who knows the deal. (Wonder if it’s the same one who blamed the whole tenure issue, accurately, on“politics”)
Yes. This is how it must work. And it’s better to give up the money if donors insist on overstepping their roles.
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I wanted to learn more about protests at judge's homes. Here are some examples of what I found: protesting a San Antonio federal judge for imprisoning a tax protestor, September, 1984. In a sign of how the world has changed, the paper helpfully published his address.
Hare Krishnas protesting at a San Francisco Superior Court's judge for placing a member under a temporary conservatorship requested by her mother. The story briefly gets into the coming legal wrangling.
So there has been much discussion, and mostly criticism of the NYT's editorial the other day about "free speech," especially its opening paragraph appealing earnestly to a right that has never before actually existed nytimes.com/2022/03/18/opi…
This terrific thread by @tzimmer_history looks at the roots of the present debate, such as it is, in white conservatives' sudden facing of criticism for things they had long taken for granted & the new pushback against "view from nowhere" journalism
@tzimmer_history Last night, I had shared several polls clearly showing that as long as there has been public opinion polling (and, I promise you, even before) Americans believed in various limits to free speech
At some level, I share the bewilderment, even as someone who has studied this history for over twenty years. But this claim isn’t ~exactly~ right. There were 19th century Americans who saw the collapse of various plant and animal species and called upon the government to act.
Brian Donahue has a wonderful book examining pre-industrial agriculture in Massachusetts and how it developed in a way that incorporated conservation for future use; this was ultimately disrupted by the market revolution amazon.com/dp/0300123698/…
My own book work now is looking at forest conservation, which the federal government took a hand in as early as the 1790s to preserve certain critical tree species for naval ship construction. It was a significant political issue in the 1820s and 1840s.
"Americans are losing hold of a fundamental right as citizens of a free country: the right to speak their minds and voice their opinions in public without fear of being shamed or shunned."