POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In this first part of a multi-part article written for Information Clearing House, a media site and aggregator that I think can be fairly described as Far Left, William Blum offers the following explication of a Trump sentence. In Blum’s commentary, there is at least one remark on the projection of…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This is an addendum to my recent post on the increasing concentration of wealth in the United States. Writing for Business Insider, Tanza Loudenback reports: There are 1,542 billionaires in the world, according to a new report by UBS. More than 560 billionaires live in the US—the most of any country—and…
POSTED BY KELLY HAND The AAUP, along with the Wisconsin AFT, has condemned a series of actions taken by Governor Scott Walker, the Wisconsin state legislature, and the University of Wisconsin system board of regents over the past few years in a concerted attack on the university as a public good. Regular readers of Academe…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In this series, I have highlighted headlines that are cleverly expressed, making use of puns, irony, figurative language, or unexpected word choices to grab a reader’s attention. Not surprisingly, the Trump administration has so unabashedly flouted all sorts of political conventions that headline writers have felt freer to write headlines that…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Here are two charts on the widening income inequality in the U.S. The first chart shows that the top .1% now own as much as the bottom 90% of Americans. The second chart shows that, in terms of income inequality, the U.S. is an outlier among developed nations. The following list…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH An ever-lengthening list of faculty have come under fire for tweets and other social-media posts that they have made. But anyone who actually looks regularly at Twitter feeds must know three things: first, the medium itself stokes extremes of expression; second, almost nothing that a faculty member has ever tweeted comes…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Testimony of Stephen Mockabee, Ph.D. Ohio Conference of the American Association of University Professors House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee Representative Mike Duffey, Chair October 11, 2017 Chairman Duffey, Ranking Member Sweeney, and members of the Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee: My name is Steve Mockabee, and I am…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH It’s 2017, and the last classified documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy are due to be released on October 26. In fact, about a quarter of those documents were already released several weeks ahead of time, as if to prime the pump. As if it needs any priming.…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This passage is from a “breaking news” update from the Huffington Post: The Trump administration intends to continue diplomatic efforts with North Korea “until the first bomb drops,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday. Tillerson said that President Trump “has also made clear to me that he wants this solved…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In an article for Salon titled “Freedom of Speech Only Goes So Far on College Campuses,” Charlie May reports: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders wants the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) to investigate one of its professors after she strongly criticized President Donald Trump and the consequences of…