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The severity of these punishments and reaction of universities is just over-the-top. Harvard should be ashamed. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/18/harvard-encampment-protesters-suspended/

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Read Rick Perlstein’s piece on how the threshold for the severity of these universities’ responses compared to the 1960s. Current leaders are engaging in draconian over-reactions. https://prospect.org/politics/2024-05-08-new-anti-antisemitism-college-protests-gaza/

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My Yale colleague Jason Stanley in The New Republic. Be afraid, be very afraid (and then start organizing): The End of Civic Compassion--On education in a fascist America. https://newrepublic.com/article/181274/end-civic-compassion

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So this smacks of political "re-education". What the hell, NYU? https://nyunews.com/news/2024/05/14/students-arrested-required-to-complete-assigments/

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If you are cheering on the violence of police against students and faculty, the disciplinary actions against students without due process, just realize which side you are on now. It's with the dictators, the authoritarians, the demagogues. It can happen here. https://www.saih.no/en/nyheter/attacks-on-student-activism-is-an-indicator-of-democratic-backsliding

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Nothing says racist authoritarianism more than what the Board of Trustees at University of North Carolina is serving up. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article288473709.html

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This is disproportionate, capricious and unjust. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/12/metro/mit-encampment-protesters-suspended/?event=event12

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What a truly terrible house editorial from @nytimes.com, which could have been written by Christopher Rufo. The protests were marked by violence and disarray, Jewish students were threatened, students forced the cancellation of classes & graduations-all because of the culture of wokeness on campus.

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My latest for The Nation. "Universities Like Mine Are Providing an Authoritarian Blueprint for Trump: The potential next president and his allies are looking at the campus-led crackdown on free speech as a perfect dress rehearsal."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/campus-protests/

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This piece by Rick Perlstein may be the best analysis of the current moment. Far more thoughtful than anything else I've read. Read and share: "The New Anti-Antisemitism: the response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene." https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=c4f796afbc6267501964b46427b3f6ba.2708&s=29b9f9a5745d23de79eae7a288e3ddd6

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So, over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of interest in the protests around the country as a form of "social contagion." First of all, some of this pathologizes what is happening as akin to an infectious disease. 1/

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But more importantly to me as a scientist is the fact that the scientific work, on which these theories are based has come under significant scrutiny by many, which means taking this work at face value should be discouraged and when raising the issue of social contagion one needs to understand the underlying assumptions being made. 2/

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If you're interested in these topics, I encourage you to read: Shalizi, C. R., & Thomas, A. C. (2011). Homophily and Contagion Are Generically Confounded in Observational Social Network Studies. Sociological Methods & Research, 40(2), 211-239. 3/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0049124111404820

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Or VanderWeele, T.J., Ogburn, E.L. and Tchetgen Tchetgen, E.J., 2012. Why and when" flawed" social network analyses still yield valid tests of no contagion. Statistics, Politics, and Policy, 3(1) 4/ https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/2151-7509.1050/html

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or Lyons, R., 2011. The spread of evidence-poor medicine via flawed social-network analysis. Statistics, Politics, and Policy, 2(1). 5/ https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.2202/2151-7509.1024/html

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So, blithely assigning the forces of social contagion to a phenomenon, needs to be done with far more care than is being done right now in the public realm, where it is being used as a cudgel not a means of clarification. end/

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"The escalating authoritarianism we’re witnessing in the crackdown on college campuses is, in part, a byproduct of a media system that fails to hold powerful interests accountable for the lies they tell." https://www.freepress.net/blog/student-reporters-campus-protests-gaza

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Just read it. https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-280-the-state-as-blunt

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From Jack Mirkinson at The Nation: "The answer is this: You dare because that is how the world changes. And make no mistake, the world is changing now. All the cops in the world can’t stop that." https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/columbia-ccny-cuny-protest-nypd-police-brutality/

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Whether H5N1 is going to be the next human pandemic is almost beside the point--we can't even mobilize our institutions to respond to what is unfolding right now, or as Katherine Wu says: "the systems that warn us about infectious threats are on the fritz..." https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/04/bird-flu-response-failing/678243/

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This is not a drill.

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College administrators are falling into a tried and true trap laid by the right. https://theconversation.com/college-administrators-are-falling-into-a-tried-and-true-trap-laid-by-the-right-228732

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A nice piece on our work on access to methadone clinics in Connecticut. Bottom line: it takes so long to get to a clinic for many in our state that this vital treatment is essentially out of reach. https://ctmirror.org/2024/04/28/ct-methadone-clinics-opioid-use-disorder/?utm_source=Connecticut+Mirror+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=2a8e06486f-CT+Mirror+Sunday+Reading&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_571d22f8e4-2a8e06486f-68205893&mc_cid=2a8e06486f

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So, Jason Stanley is a colleague here at Yale. He's been writing on fascism for several years now. His next book is on fascism and the university. Whatever you think of the protests, they are being used to set up students and professors as internal enemies of the state. https://grabien.com/file?id=2391545

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