BY DONNA YOUNG This is a guest post by Donna Young, the guest editor of the November–December Academe issue. She is a law professor at Albany Law School and president of the Albany Law School AAUP chapter. My editor’s note for the current issue of Academe, which focuses on the theme “Race on Campus,” begins with the statement, “All is not…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This is the way that the meeting has been reported in an article written by Emily Smith and Daniel Halper and published in the New York Post: Donald Trump’s Media Summit Was a ‘F—Ing Firing Squad’ Donald Trump scolded media big shots during an off-the-record Trump Tower sit-down on Monday, sources…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH These are the opening paragraphs of “From Truthiness to PostTruth, Just in Time for Donald Trump: Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year Should Scare the Hell out of You,” an article written by Erin Keane for Salon: “Remember back in 2006, when Stephen Colbert, the fictional conservative blowhard TV personality played…
BY AARON BARLOW In 2012, I proposed the term ‘breitbarting’ with a narrower definition than, I think, the word deserves today. At that time, I limited it to what Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keefe proved so skilled at doing. They designed strategies of interview, editing and presentation to make a predetermined point (not to explore…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH President-Elect Trump Has Agreed to Pay $25 Million to Settle Civil Fraud Suits against Trump University By Washington Post Staff November 18 at 4:20 PM He has agreed to pay $25 million to former customers of the defunct real estate seminar program, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said. From an…
BY BRIAN C. MITCHELL MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts speculated recently about whether there was enough soap in America to wash off the mud splattered by the dirty, depressing, and uninspired efforts by both presidential candidates to win votes. A week ago, we answered the question of who will lead us over the next four years. With…
POSTED BY HENRY REICHMAN The following statement, signed by over 150 historians of Judaism, was published yesterday by the Jewish Journal. As scholars of Jewish history, we are acutely attuned to the fragility of democracies and the consequences for minorities when democracies fail to live up to their highest principles. The United States has a…
BY CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD The following piece is reposted with permission from Remaking the University, a blog sponsored by Michael Meranze, professor of history at UCLA, and Christopher Newfield, professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. It’s tempting to see higher education as a sideshow in the upheaval that Donald J. Trump’s election presents for every…