Critical Theorist in Exile

Trying to survive as an intellectual tradition at the New School. Narcissists may bankrupt this place before some trustees look up “fiduciary responsibility”.

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

Never ask:

A woman her age,

A man his salary,

Or Joel Towers why he wears doctoral regalia at TNS graduations despite being told by peers he should not do it as he does not have a PhD.

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

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[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

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[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

Never ask:

A woman her age,

A man his salary,

Or those involved in Richard Kessler’s “Center for the American Experience” for a list of its donors or even a simple count of how many of them are people close to the Trump administration.

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

Never ask:

A woman her age,

A man his salary,

Or Joel Towers why he wears doctoral regalia at TNS graduations despite being told by peers he should not do it as he does not have a PhD.

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

When the past heralds a brighter future
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[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

The Department of Economics at the New School for Social Research has just issued a statement on the New School's decision to layoff dozens of staff and faculty colleagues, including our own colleague and friend, Professor Sanjay Reddy.

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

Richard Kessler is the Bari Weiss of The New School

https://t.co/OL7hTSsYEs

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

One of Trumpiest things in this place is how any argument invoking the faculty’s scholarly expertise is cast as “elitist” and wrong.

It’s like being unqualified to make decisions on pursuit of scholarship is a virtue; needed to “shake things up”.

It’ll go as well as DOGE did.

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

Cut employer contributions to people’s retirement schemes, then run banal webinars like this to show you care.

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

New School students upholding scholarship and telling a few truths

https://t.co/j0RTb4r6PK

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

The academic future our leaders want. Expensive degrees in “motivation” and “networking” for the dumb, rich and entitled. Harvard College, without the academic trappings. Finishing school for corporate mooches.

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

No one could have foreseen that our new policy wouldn’t work. Except the people who advised us it wouldn’t work, but we fired all of them.

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

A personality type for our times

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

“Incompetence isn’t a fireable offense. It is part of the job.”

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[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

Seeing folks who have run spectacular, decades-long failures as senior academic “leaders” write “thought-leadership” articles about the current failings and future of higher education hits in a way that defies words. #FailingUpward

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

Heuss professors write a second letter to Joel Towers and BoT Chair Linda Rappaport reiterating concerns that their “restructure” plans will “lead to a loss of the substance and identity of an institution that took many decades of hard work to come into existence and to develop”.

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

Any parallel with Donald Towers getting BoT approval to demolish the NSSR to make way for a garish, American-experience “graduate faculty” run by a handful of political cronies and a ton of part-timers is—of course—only a coincidence.

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

@kmunro_econ This call is coming from inside the house

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

Never ask:

A woman her age,

A man his salary,

Or “cash strapped” TNS President Joel Towers how many millions of the School’s money he has spent renovating his office, architectural vanity projects in his building, and on a new condo for himself.

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

Never ask:

A woman her age,

A man his salary,

Or Joel Towers why he wears doctoral regalia at TNS graduations despite being told by peers he should not do it as he does not have a PhD.

[Critical Theorist in Exile @exiledfromexile]

Kessler has stated The New School needs to become “apolitical”. Clearly it’s not that he doesn’t understand our traditions of transformational, radical social research and public scholarship. It’s that he wants to destroy them. In the age of Trump, Orban, and Netanyahu, no less.