Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

“The A.I. industry is so far subject to none of the regulations that govern other dangerous technologies, such as firearms, pharmaceuticals, and environmental chemicals.”

Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

Illiberalism is not Inevitable

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In plain English, fascism.

A thread worth reading

Dozens?

Apparently the NCAA hired NBA refs for the championship game.

Only if administrators behave like administrators.

So will composition programs.

Rebel Without a History

None of the above.

The Atlantic’s fecklessness is part of problem.

BREAKING: For the 11th time, Republicans have blocked Democrats from paying TSA.

Republicans have been given ELEVEN chances to send TSA agents their paychecks, but they refuse.

We luddites need to stick together.

I’m stuck at the gate at JFK because American Airlines won’t post a delay on a flight while waiting for a flight attendant to show up. They claim they don’t know when, as if they had no way to contact the employee.

Anthropic cofounder says she doesn't regret her literature major — and says AI will make humanities majors 'more important' Anthropic president Daniela Amodei said that, in the age of AI, we should "prize the things that make us human" — like literature degrees.

www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-pr...

I have just taught an essay from Aims for the first time in years. I was surprised at how nuanced he seemed.

What was surprising to me, not having read anything but Cultural Literacy until recently, is how much I enjoy (and frequently agree with) his writings on interpretation.

What did he write after?

April is the cruelest month.

Your Daily Dorothy Parker welcomes the new season...

Jürgen Habermas Has Died. Will Democratic Optimism Die With Him? The great German philosopher both robustly defended the public sphere—and for seven decades never stopped participating in it.

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I wonder what AJ Bacevich thinks about it, does anyone know?

It’s time for wine lovers to get over ‘Zinfandel cringe’ You’d be hard-pushed to find better-value old vine wine

Janis Robinson makes the case for old vine Zinfandel, as if the case needed to be made. www.ft.com/content/4dab...

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Why I’m not watching the State of the Union – and you shouldn’t either | Robert Reich Trump doesn’t deserve our attention. And we already know the state of the union – it sucks

Why I’m not watching the State of the Union – and you shouldn’t either | Robert Reich

Seems accurate.

DH is dead. Long live AI?

Is gravity next?