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Jan 21, 2025 | 
quillette.com | Tomás Sidenfaden |Benjamin Kerstein |Peter Hague |Cary Nelson
On 7 January, Mark Zuckerberg posted a video message on Instagram, in which he announced that Meta would “get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse.” This was an abrupt about-face from the CEO of a company that once employed thousands of content moderators. But who decides what constitutes “mainstream discourse” on controversial topics like immigration?
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
quillette.com | Benjamin Kerstein |Peter Hague |Cary Nelson |Joe Lockard
A tribute to David Lynch (1946–2025). Keep Reading The Decline and Fall of Katherine Franke Anti-Zionist falsehoods, malicious absurdities, and self-serving martyrdom at Columbia. From the Blog 13 Jan 2025 10 Jan 2025 Join the newsletter to receive the latest updates in your inbox. Your email address Please check your inbox and click the link to confirm your subscription.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
quillette.com | Peter Hague |Cary Nelson |Joe Lockard |Benny Morris
Last week saw the launch of two of the most powerful rockets ever flown. On 16January, SpaceX’s Starship was launched for its seventh test flight and its first stage booster was successfully caught—even though the upper stage was lost in a quite spectacular manner.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
sapirjournal.org | Ronald R. Krebs |Cary Nelson
The American Association of University Professors does not often issue pronouncements that cause a firestorm. But the AAUP did exactly that on a quiet Monday last summer. For nearly 20 years, this once-august institution had opposed boycotts of academic institutions as incompatible with its founding raison d’être: academic freedom. Then it reversed course.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
insidehighered.com | Cary Nelson
You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. iStockPhoto/Inside Higher EdAt the core of two decades of contemporary debates about boycotting Israeli universities—debates that date to about 2001 in Britain—has been the issue of how boycotts affect the defining pillar of faculty teaching and research: academic freedom. Does an academic boycott imperil the status of academic freedom?
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
chronicle.com | Cary Nelson
Last week, the American Association of University Professors set aside its hundred-year defense of academic freedom by opening the door to any number of individually initiated academic boycotts. Individual students and faculty have always had the right to advocate for academic boycotts, and it is disingenuous to suggest otherwise.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Cary Nelson |Kenneth Waltzer |Hedda Harari-Spencer
Fathom > October 2024 > The Ministry of Truth: American Academia and the Anti-Israel Single Narrative The Ministry of Truth: American Academia and the Anti-Israel Single Narrative tweet share email print Hedda Harari-Spencer is a Senior Lecturer in Hebrew at Tufts University. On 17 May the University of Pennsylvania held its 2024 commencement ceremonies. One of the speakers, a graduating PhD in Africana Studies and History, concluded his talk by asking the audience to hold Israel accountable...
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Cary Nelson |Kenneth Waltzer |Stuart Kamenetsky |Michael Feuer
Michael Feuer argues that the eruption of protests against Israel after 7 October sounded the alarm of resurgent antisemitism, which was not only horrifying in its own right but also as Deborah Lipstadt warned, symptomatic of pathology that affects everyone, not ‘just’ Jews.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson is the author, most recently, of Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles (2024). He argues that the latest document of the Nexus Task Force – a body of academics created in 2019 to ‘analyze issues at the intersection of Israel and antisemitism’ – is an obstacle to tackling campus antisemitism.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Alan Johnson |Cary Nelson |Suzan Quitaz
Suzan Quitaz was among the international journalists invited to watch the raw footage of the atrocities committed by Hamas during the 7 October Pogrom. She reports here on what she saw. ‘I never in my life attended a press briefing where journalists looked so shocked, in horror, tears streaming, some cries could be heard throughout the big auditorium, others shouted “please stop” and some had to leave because it became too much for them’.
