Author: Jim

Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/campus-left-university-columbia-1968/678176/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Israel Has a Choice to Make: Rafah or Riyadh

Israel is facing one of the most fateful choices it has ever had to make.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opinion/israel-war-rafah-riyadh.html?smid=em-share

Conservative Justices Take Argument Over Trump’s Immunity in Unexpected Direction

Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing was memorable for its discussion of coups, assassinations and internments — but very little about the former president’s conduct.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-immunity-election.html?smid=em-share

The conservative justices have shown they are ready to sacrifice any law or principle to save the former president.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/trump-presidential-inmunity-supreme-court/678193/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

By all means, as antisemitism spreads on campuses, please cast aspersions on “elite” (meaning expensive) higher education (higher than what?).

https://wapo.st/3QmwvbP

You’ve Been Wronged. That Doesn’t Make You Right.

Never had our culture made the claiming of complaint such an animating force.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/opinion/oppression-victim-offensive.html?smid=em-share

This Conversation Made Me a Sharper Editor

The venerated editor Adam Moss walks through how to make good work great.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-adam-moss.html?smid=em-share

Why Losing Political Power Now Feels Like ‘Losing Your Country’

It is difficult, if not impossible, to attempt to counter polarization at a time when partisan sectarianism is intense and pervasive.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opinion/partisan-polarization-republicans-democrats.html?smid=em-share