A propos nothing (ok, maybe a propos ABC's purge of Mr Kimmel for jokes that offended the Trumpistas). This is what authoritarianism looks like, then and now.

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...and I'm hoping to start posting at the new site in the next week. Until then, things will be a bit quiet here as we finalized the migration of all the content.

...for firing a tenured history professor for completely lawful political speech (what he is reported to have said comes nowhere near legally actionable "incitement" to violence--it is not even close) ...

Zohran Mamdani, a state assemblyman and democratic socialist, scored an upset victory in the Democratic primary over Andrew Cuomo (the former Governor, whose father had also been Governor of New York) ...

Interesting data via Professor Schwitzgebel. I can imagine a couple of factors that have contributed to this trend, which seems to have gotten under way in the early part of the last decade. First, ...

Philosopher David Enoch discusses with Yascha Mount; an excerpt: The kind of liberalism that I have in mind is first and foremost about a commitment to some underlying values and principles. And those ...

Since the military academies, under the authoritarian Trump regime, no longer educate, I wonder whether U.S. News & World Report will drop them from their "liberal arts colleges" rankings?

(what he is reported to have said comes nowhere near legally actionable "incitement" to violence--it is not even close). I hope the AFA and FIRE are on this ...