Any academic still bringing in over $1,000 per year on book royalties a decade later would be considered a super star...

I'm not sure if they were unfiltered...I just think they are wildly unrepresentative.

It is professors asking other professors why nobody likes professors.

People need to step back on this Yale report on mistrust in higher education. It is a report on public opinion that does not actually engage in any public opinion research. Rather, they talked to a bunch of elites with strong opinions about higher education.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

Michael Sandel saw it coming — Harvard Gazette Philosophy helps us solve "big questions that matter," argues "Justice" professor as he accepts Berggruen Prize.

“Many people think that philosophy resides in the heavens far beyond the world in which we live. I think that’s a mistake. Philosophy belongs in the city where citizens gather and reason together and argue together about big questions that matter to their lives.”

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Worth listening to the entire thing for a window into a worldview defined by "us versus them".

An adult (with a PhD) writes about his search for subversive text in undergraduate theses and calls on the legislature and other faculty to stomp it out. I hope that, in time, he will realize what this sounds like.

www.city-journal.org/article/new-...

In addition to Shohei being awesome, since the majority of what arrives to my office via mail is either a crackpot conspiracy theory or hate mail, this was a pleasant surprise.

Still trying to identify the amazing person who sent this to me...

Audio: Violent threats increasingly target members of Congress The Globe asked the offices of New England lawmakers for examples of the threats they’ve received. The response was chilling.

“I consider it to be one of my most important achievements as chief, keeping my boss alive,” said a chief of staff to a New England lawmaker.

A chilling read as Trump pardons violent extremists.

apps.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/nati...

I was placing it somewhere in central Europe. It has that look for some reason.

Domestic actors should note this too. Trump has no institutional or personal constraint, so his credibility is zero.

Making a "deal" with him is like making a deal with a roulette wheel.

the head of this Leviathan, in the creature’s living intact state, is an entire delusion

Where is this photo Ken?

The most remarkable part was the "dropping bombs" dance move he appeared to do.

Lindsey Graham at Disney World is pretty good, too.

You give me way too much credit. 50%.

Yes, no doubt - the education realignment is 100% real (although it will be interesting to see how much of that reverts back in a post-Trump era).

That is noble of them, and I admire them for doing so.

I don't know what to make of that video. What I'd suggest is to find something that verifies. A link to statements you refer to would help.

I had wondered about this. My guess: somebody should have known. Among the people who authorized the sinking, which surely came from a central command, probably even Washington, the ship would have been known and identified. It wasn't like the stumbled upon it randomly in the ocean.

That is the exact opposite of what TNR is reporting, so if you have information otherwise, please share.

Take Vietnam for example, the "constrained" war of imagination. Somewhere between 10-15% of the population of Vietnam died. That is comparable to Germany, a society decimated by war, during WW2. The United States dropped ~7.5 million tons of bombs during that war.

I'm not sure there is an empirical basis for this claim. Most of the things one would point to as "not good" also occur in situations where religious division is not the cause.

hah, you're right! Need to edit that one.

I actually have a vague answer to this: yes, the collective "me" but also the organizations whose purpose is more explicitly to defend our democracy, including recently set up organizations on the local level.