Emory University cuts DEI and fires faculty over Charlie Kirk post At Emory's first senate meeting this year, the interim president gave non-answers about cutting DEI and firing faculty for Facebook posts.

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Is Emory Joining the Club of Capitulators? Stepping into the role of Emory University’s interim president, Justice Leah Ward Sears brought with her quite a legacy: a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, the youngest person eve...

This was painful to write. I hate that Emory’s new interim president, on her second day of office, just last week, called for abolishing DEI programs at Emory.
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The Sound of Capitulation What is the sound of capitulation?

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What a university sounds like when it complies — and what truth sounds like.

Containing Precarity the new authoritarian playbook

How authoritarianism is a containment vessel for the precarity anxiety generated by unfettered capitalism. My upcoming talk for the ISPP open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...

Why I am not leaving the USA at least not yet

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Protecting the Wetlands of Democracy notes from crete

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On What Comes to Mind notes toward my book on authoritarian psyches

On What Comes to Mind --see my piece on the unconscious origins of our political perceptions: open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...

On Viewpoint Diversity and the idiocy of people who clamor for it

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Emory University students and faculty mark one year since police moved in on protesters. Emory University professor Noëlle McAfee writes of what happened on the Emory campus a year ago.

Here's a piece of mine published in today's Atlanta Journal Constitution on the 1-year anniversary of the police riot on my campus. www.ajc.com/education/ge...

I was thinking the same today.

Universities unite against government 'interference' but few from South join in Hundreds of universities across the United States are speaking out for academic freedom, but few schools in the South have joined the opposition to the Trump adminsitration.

Here at Emory we are wondering why on earth is our university president not signing on to the AAC&U letter. Local newspaper story on this here:

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America's Quilting Points Under Fire At about age three, I sat at a kitchen table drawing pictures of sailboats on the sea, wondering if it was possible to think about an object like this if I didn’t have a word for it.

A little psychoanalytic theorizing for our times. noellemcafee.substack.com/p/americas-q...

How Universities Become Tools for Tyranny and how to prevent that from happening

The difference between university presidents who are courageous, complicit, and cowardly. open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...

La résistance universitaire au trumpisme L’historienne Joan W. Scott est professeure émérite à l’Institute for Advanced Study de Princeton, New Jersey. Mondialement célèbre pour avoir [...]

Interview with Joan Wallach Scott.
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Noelle McAfee | Substack Philosopher trying to make sense of the dark side of humanity in the miidst of so much beauty. Philosophy professor and champion of academic freedom at Emory University. Author of five books including...

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LaConference 2025: October 17th and 18th, Vancouver, Canada - Lacan Salon Feminine Desire: Honoring the Life and Work of Anne Dufourmantelle and Mari Ruti Keynote Speakers: Noëlle McAfee and Ana Houine Call for Papers The LaConference 2025 will explore and honor the work of...

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US judge blocks deportation of Palestinian activist detained by Ice Critics condemn arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, Columbia University graduate student who led protests over Gaza war

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The Trumpists’ Mass Delusions In a 1967 piece for The New Yorker magazine, title “Truth and Politics,” Hannah Arendt foretold something happening today as the alt-right attempts to whitewash away the reality of racial, ethnic, …

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This college president isn’t afraid of Donald Trump

What do they want? To make America conform again. To make everyone afraid to be anyone. To kill your spirit. Screw them and #resist

Professor Michael Eng on Digital Wynter.

#resistance is a force that gives us meaning. The trumpians are trying to flood us and overwhelm us. Don’t get distracted. Focus on the 1 or 2 things you deeply care about and dive in deep there.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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Email from Emory this morning: Yesterday, we became aware that study sections and advisory council meetings at the National Institutes of Health were canceled as a part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) communications pause. The DHHS communication pause is scheduled through Feb 1

U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Announces Resolution of Complaint Against Emory University Alleging Anti-Muslim and Anti-Palestinian Discrimination [This press release used to reside at the Department of Education’s website but was removed by about January 19, 2025]PRESS RELEASEEmory University in Georgia enters into resolution agreement to en…

Somehow that press release got removed from the website. Fortunately I saved a copy and put it on my blog. gonepublic.net/2025/01/21/u...

Likely the Donald is pissed that he had to share the spotlight today with MLK so maybe one of his exec orders will be to rename today DJT day.

U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Announces Resolution of Complaint Against Emory University Alleging Anti-Muslim and Anti-Palestinian Discrimination OCR today announced that Emory University in Georgia has entered into a resolution agreement to ensure compliance with civil rights laws involving alleged harassment of students based on national orig...

It's been nearly nine months since Emory University's administration called in outside police forces to violently terminate a peaceful. Only now is there some accountability.

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