Last month the Texas Republican Executive Committee voted on a proposal to ban association with Nazis. They voted it down. But tell me again that this party is very committed to fighting antisemitism.
We're in an endless time loop of repeating 2016, wherein the NYT ran screaming headlines about "Hilary's emails" (which were never about Hilary's emails), yet evinced utter boredom when confronted with a bonanza of private emails used by Trump's inner circle.
If we needed further evidence of our societal decline, the continued relevance of the wretched Brett Stephens speaks volumes.
Less a counterpoint than a sidepoint: how often do people citing Laurence Tribe or Alan Dershowitz as major figures worthy of consideration mention their plagiarism, and the consequences they've never faced? Harvard is the place where Serious People get their academic credentials, stamping them as Seriously Authoritative. If there's an academic-specific scandal associated with its president, that's Serious Business. But if the whole place isn't actually trustworthy when it comes to those academic credentials, well, that threatens the very concept of Serious People and Serious Business.
Bonus: the Harvard Crimson article on Tribe's confession, which happened about a year after Dersh got caught, has a *really* funny pull-quote-plus-non-statement from then-Uni-President Larry Summers.
Last month the Texas Republican Executive Committee voted on a proposal to ban association with Nazis. They voted it down. But tell me again that this party is very committed to fighting antisemitism.
PS I don't see anything by the New York Times on that either.
We're in an endless time loop of repeating 2016, wherein the NYT ran screaming headlines about "Hilary's emails" (which were never about Hilary's emails), yet evinced utter boredom when confronted with a bonanza of private emails used by Trump's inner circle.
If we needed further evidence of our societal decline, the continued relevance of the wretched Brett Stephens speaks volumes.
Less a counterpoint than a sidepoint: how often do people citing Laurence Tribe or Alan Dershowitz as major figures worthy of consideration mention their plagiarism, and the consequences they've never faced? Harvard is the place where Serious People get their academic credentials, stamping them as Seriously Authoritative. If there's an academic-specific scandal associated with its president, that's Serious Business. But if the whole place isn't actually trustworthy when it comes to those academic credentials, well, that threatens the very concept of Serious People and Serious Business.
Bonus: the Harvard Crimson article on Tribe's confession, which happened about a year after Dersh got caught, has a *really* funny pull-quote-plus-non-statement from then-Uni-President Larry Summers.