Opponent of NYT v. Sullivan Decision Set to Lead Iowa Intellectual Freedom Center
The Iowa Board of Regents offered the job to the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Carson Holloway, who has served as a visiting fellow at multiple conservative groups. https://t.co/kmCuJBlTJw
"While these terms are seen by many in higher education as reflecting conservative priorities and framing, the organization says it does not have a political affiliation"
The report is from a group in the Foundation for Excellence in Higher Ed network: https://t.co/BwXRAWmJA1
Humanities dissertations have fallen by 49 percent since 2015, compared with a drop of 4.5 percent in the social sciences, according to a new analysis of nearly 445,000 dissertations in these two fields over 65 years. Explore the data: https://t.co/NN6VU9KXM7
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Outgoing Iowa Civics Center Leader Accuses Board of Possibly Illegal Actions
The Center for Intellectual Freedom’s interim director accused the regents of violating at least the spirit of the law creating the center. https://t.co/TiBZZTZO6K
Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks.
Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://t.co/9YLUuU9ktP
Excellent conversation between @tylercowen and @dwarkesh_sp on many things, most interestingly about people and psychosis. Recommend!
I particularly liked this bit: "I think people are actually very bad at being coherent around sentient creatures," Dwarkesh observes. "You see this especially clearly with factory farming. If you think biological substrates are capable of suffering, there’s a pretty robust case that we have 100 billion animals that are suffering a great deal in the world today." Yes indeed.
https://t.co/JBX0YXgspM
Some news in today's @ReliableSources: Fresh off graduating from Stanford and releasing his book “How to Rule the World,” @tab_delete is joining @sfstandard as senior Silicon Valley reporter