Plus, is that Obama-produced Netflix movie about the end of the world any good? They say that all good things must come to an end. In an unrelated matter, is winding down and this is essentially my last writing of this annus horribili s. The good news? If someone forwarded you this email, sign up for free here. Elise Stefanik drew up for them, and as a result were urged to quit their prestigious jobs. And yet we never hear about the other side of the coin. Can we please stop talking about Harvard for a moment and have a conversation about Youngstown State?
No wonder faculty, alumni, and students were outraged when the nine trustees of Youngstown State β named by Republican governors in this increasingly red state β bypassed the normal search process to shock the campus with its new president, a Tea Party-era right-wing Republican congressman named Bill Johnson. It was all too much for Nikole Hannah-Jones , Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist behind The Project who has her own tortured history with UNC, where those same right-leaning trustees killed a tenure deal for Hannah-Jones to teach there in What do you call THIS.
But only 0. Controlling those campuses β curbing their diversity initiatives and downsizing the liberal arts that promote critical thinking while pumping up pro-capitalism business or STEM courses β helps their real agenda , which is molding young people less likely to challenge their authority. We lose that war when they capture Youngstown State while folks are too busy defending Harvard. When most of us are already obsessing about the apocalypse , how can you resist a movie about it, especially when it stars Julia Roberts?
In addition to fearing Armageddon, many of us are desperate for inspiration. I keep going back to the civil rights movement of the s, when people who wanted America to keep its promise of liberty for all put their lives on the line for what they believed in.
Martin Luther King Jrs. Biden and allies , criticizing him when warranted, without turning voters against him and democracy at a time when the alternative will be catastrophic?
