AAUP Joins Brief in Favor of Affirmative Action

BY RISA LIEBERWITZ AND AARON NISENSON The AAUP joined with the American Council on Education and thirty-five other higher education associations in filing an amicus brief in federal court this week opposing a challenge to race-based admissions at Harvard University. We argue that “a diverse student body is essential to educational objectives of colleges and universities,…

In Defense of Marc Short

BY JOHN K. WILSON I’m disturbed by many of the arguments against the decision by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center to hire as a senior fellow Marc Short, the former White House director of legislative affairs and senior adviser to President Donald Trump. William Hitchcock and Melvyn Leffler, history professors at Virginia, resigned from…

How Will This Look in the History Books?

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In May 2016, I saved this list of 33 examples of the ridiculous things that Donald Trump had said to that point. I am not sure why I did not post it. I suspect that I felt that it was basically impossible to keep up with the avalanche of statements that,…

Professor Reduced to Wearing Shoes with Broken Soles

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Writing for Euronews, Cristina Abellan Matamoros, Natalia Oelsner, and Marta Rodriguez have reported that a Venezuelan professor’s tweet showing the cracked soles of his shoes and explaining that it will cost him four months wages just to have them repaired has gone viral. The English translation is: “I’m not embarrassed to…

A Reading List on White Supremacy

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH http://bostonreview.net/race/stephen-kantrowitz-white-supremacy-has-always-been-mainstream   https://bostonreview.net/race-law-justice/clarence-harlan-orsi-concerned-citizens. http://bostonreview.net/race-politics/robin-d-g-kelley-births-nation. http://bostonreview.net/race/ruha-benjamin-black-afterlives-matter. http://bostonreview.net/race/ed-pavlic/baldwins-lonely-country. http://bostonreview.net/forum/walter-johnson-to-remake-the-world.      

Progressive Messaging

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH There has been a lot of hand-wringing about the lack of both unified and resonant messaging by candidates on the Progressive side of the ideological spectrum. I personally think that the lack of resonant messaging is much more important, especially in these off-year elections. But here are three examples of very…

Tweeting the “Witch Hunt”

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH CNN’s David Gelles has surveyed the number of times that President Trump has refereed to the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election as a “witch hunt”: 2017-05: 3 times 2017-06: 5 times 2017-07: 6 times 2017-10: 1 time 2017-12: 2 times 2018-01: 1 time 2018-02: 3 times 2018-03:…