@pswordwoman “My absence has nothing to do with you and everything to do with me (unless you’re you know who you are). All further emails during this time will be ignored and then looked at with rage on the other side.”
@ShalnevaE The Berkeley of today also has a shrinking English and French department and no medievalist in their French department and barely one in their English department. The lack of investment in departments and declining enrollment destroyed rigor.
No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins. Indeed, Christ’s love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.
@StevenKale16@DavidAstinWalsh Also is there a function for dealing with tenured faculty who take a research salary and course load but don’t ever publish a post tenure book? Shouldn’t they be demoted to NTT by this rationale?
Jeff Bezos' wedding last summer cost somewhere around $50M. That, alone, could have saved all 300 positions cut today at The Washington Post for a year.
Of course, he wouldn't have to choose. He could do both because he's worth $250B, which is nearly the GDP of New Zealand.