At least once a week I think about how America would improve if Elon Musk's companies were nationalized.

i also think that some of the delayed response — both culturally and politically — stems from it being functionally impossible to wrap your head around how wealthy someone like elon musk is and how wealthy he is going to be in the future, both for the average person and for policy makers alike

Between our report on trust in higher ed, the number of faculty without jobs for next year, and this as Yale's current homepage, it's a weird time to be at Yale. One more week left of teaching. One more week left of teaching.

No shortage of things to improve about US higher ed (most of which have nothing to do with Yale), but "plunging trust" is principally the product of a coordinated propaganda campaign and it's irresponsible for the report to avoid mentioning it

The Yale report has to be understood as a piece of political messaging whose aim is to ensure Yale's relative safety amid Trump's attacks on the sector. Mentioning the real major source of the problem was clearly off limits. It's a form of soft collaboration with the administration. It will hurt us.

Now, if the report wanted to make the argument that elite universities like Yale helped fuel the rise of inequality (which in turn undermined trust in institutions) through an increasingly tight relationship to finance, consulting, and tech, then we could talk! But I'm guessing that didn't come up.

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Trump&Co is a mob outfit.

Who Gets a Guggenheim? This Professor Has An Answer Education and public policy professor Dominique Baker looked at 30,000 Guggenheim recipients to determine how influential institutional affiliation is in determining who gets one of the prestigious fe...

Cool interview about my latest work conducted with my "co-collaborator and husband, RTI International research analyst @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social." (never gets old)

We talked about why this work matters, some of potential solutions, and what's next. 1/

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Justin Fairfax Was A Coward I believed Vanessa Tyson.

Justin Fairfax wanted to be remembered as a rising star. A trailblazer. The second Black man elected statewide in Virginia. He wanted the Emmett Till comparison to stick.

It will not. I will not let it, and neither should you.

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I can hear the Spock vs Kirk battle music soundtrack in my head.

You got a follow for the Yale report comments, but I’m a ride or die stan for this.

And public regionals, R1s in flyover states and red states, and liberal arts colleges largely battle against perceptions that are far more representative of the ivies.

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

Brandon Friedman Report Finds Yale Deserves Blame for J.D. Vance, Scott Bessent, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ron DeSantis, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and George W. Bush

Many faculty at places like Yale, especially ones who like to pontificate about the state of higher ed, have never stepped foot on a non-fancy small liberal arts campus, a state school, or a community college. Which is the majority of higher ed.

Damn. Iran just dropped an A+ level troll on Trump in this new LEGO movie.

I’m no fan of Iran at all… but this one actually nails him. 😂😂

NO

“.. The Iran war increasingly looks not only like another shocking humiliation but perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in American military history.”

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"We don't really concern ourselves with what they claim they have the right to do."

[It's telling that, in response to a question about wartime negotiations, Vance's only frame of reference is that of a husband controlling his wife.]

And yet, regular Americans aren't demanding that legislators shut down prediction markets, because they want to believe that they too will have valuable insider betting knowledge someday.

The people of Iran aren’t free. Iran can now charge tolls. The nuclear material sits EXACTLY where it did, in the same amount, since June. The regime is still in place with a younger ayatollah. Iran still was launching missiles, now with more money to rebuild.

Period

I'm on the train back to DC – I call on all my colleagues to come back, too.

Congress must vote to end this war IMMEDIATELY.

Thank god. Christ.

But seriously folks. We cannot continue to live like this.

Every member of Congress should take it upon themselves to get to Washington whether leadership calls them or not. Get there and summon the GOP through a show of unity against the war criminal

this is a wild story. this level of detail cannot come without many of the principles talking to the reporters. this reads to me a whole lot like vance and rubio - especially - trying to cut their losses and throw the president under the bus. it's like something from W's second term circa 2007.

Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic, because Israel and Judaism are not one and the same.

Here’s proof:

While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.

You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump
Article III
The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.