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“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!”

Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement. Or else grovel before a mafia boss.

Harvard University has laid off the staff of its Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying the direct descendants of those enslaved by Harvard affiliates.

In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Gould. Decades later, these debates have fallen out of public memory, but right-wing pseudoscience persists

Claudine Gay’s enemies are not our friends. All we’ll remember is that that she angered some rich pro-Israel donors, as well as opportunistic activists and politicians, and they got her fired.

A Harvard Professor says plagiarism became a “pretext” to oust Gay, and discusses the larger right-wing war on education aimed at undoing progress on race, gender and addressing inequality.

The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here.

A month of renewed protest and repression