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University leadership is disgraceful and cowardly.

For years they cheered on the
derangements because they saw an opportunity to protect and legitimize themselves ideologically.

In doing so, they abrogated commitments to core institutional missions and values.

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Now it’s blowing up in their faces because they’ve staked their credibility on being Good People yet have no ‘answer’ for Gaza.

If they had more character and were better people they would have never agreed to the demand that disciplinary knowledge production…
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…and pedagogy be subservient to activist manias and ideological policing in the first place.

But it’s too late. They’ve degraded their institutions and the time they thought they bought themselves with their cynical dealmaking has run out.

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I have a friend in finance. During the pandemic they had a bunch of top epidemiologists and scientists on retainer who they could call up and ask what they really thought.

I think this is the future: even for matters of major public importance information is going to…
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