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The Gutting of Higher Education – What’s Left of the New School?

Jeremy Varon Dissent Magazine
Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly common story across all of higher education.

The Case for Tripling Union Membership

Heidi Shierholz, Celine McNicholas, Josh Bivens, Jennifer Sherer, Ben Zipperer, Margaret Polydock Economic Policy Institute
How rebuilding union power would strengthen workers, the economy, and our democracy

The Freedom To Be Woke

David Cole The New York Review of Books
A court ruling striking down Florida’s Stop WOKE Act is both a major affirmation of academic freedom and a window into the free-speech debates dividing the right.

Holocaust and Genocide Scholars Are Navigating a Minefield

Grant Morgan Jacobin
Since October 7, academic institutions have applied overt and covert pressure to discourage Holocaust and genocide scholars from criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza. Still, many academics are organizing new networks to defend free inquiry.

The Cloud, Platforms, and Search Engines Are Public-Interest Institutions

Cecilia Rikap interviewed by Kirsten Van Gestel and Klara Ledroit transform! europe
Big Tech has amassed extraordinary power and now exerts control over the entire economy. Europe can no longer afford to remain captive to Big Tech networks. The solution lies in building an alternative digital ecosystem.

GOP School Censorship 2.0

Timothy Messer-Kruse CounterPunch
How the MAGA Crusade Against Critical Race Theory has Become a Movement Against Knowledge Itself

Repression in the Classroom

Paul Buhle Monthly Review
Repression on campus is back in a big way, as readers far beyond the classroom know today. The saga of the Cold War years, once seemingly distant, now has lessons that we ignore to our peril.
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