This essay really bothered me—not because it is wrong, but because of its omissions. It is absolutely correct that foreign money is corrupting U.S. universities, but the devil is in the details of how foreign money is corrupting our interpretation of academic freedom—often mistaken for First Amendment issues on private campuses. No essay can fully address this subject without noting how protests against Israel were also the locus of harassment, intimidation, and violence against Jews on campus simply because they were Jewish. These incidents were well documented, violated federal law, and were therefore falsely portrayed as peaceful. University administrations not only chose to ignore federal civil rights legislation as they rationalized away these incidents; they also allowed blatant discrimination and violence against an ethno-religious minority. Democracy will not be fully restored in the United States until this discrimination, as well as the campus misuse of the concept of free speech, is acknowledged.
I see, I am not the only one bothered by the piece. 20,000 feet view is fine and dandy, but what about details?
“For students and faculty, the first step is to know your rights. The easiest way to lose those rights is to be ignorant of them.”
Great! What are student’s rights? What can they do and how fight when their rights violated?
Being associated with FIRE should make it easy-peasy to right a comprehensive guide for students with concrete example if the impact of fighting back.
At the very least, why not point to resources which can inform students about their rights?
P.S. it’s also amazing that while mentioning foreign influences, the author did not think necessary to mention take over of education by the left, which McCarty-ed the right OUT of education.
:D Great! Now I shall spend hours of my life on what shall be a 10-15 minute read. Makes sense!
In business when I see a book I am interested in, I find a HBR article by the author on the topic that covers the book nicely in 15 minutes ... without unnecessary fluff, wasting hours of my life ... WHEN I get to read it.
So, the question is, did the author meant to educate or just sell a book. If the later, this is the last time I am reading anything by the author.
Where were these activists when people lost jobs and were refused services for refusing to wear pointless cloth masks during COVID? Where were they when people with natural COVID immunity (which is BETTER immunity than the 'vaccine') were fired and ostracized for absolutely no good reason?
Hypocrisy is not pretty, and it gets no respect from me. If you want me to watch out for your rights, then you watch out for mine. Otherwise, have a nice day. Don't call me, I'll call you.
Today’s universities pushed all their chips on the table for progressive wokeness. They bet it all. Their reputations, their brands. They wanted to be vanguards for the Next Big Leap Forward as they (in their minds) did in the 60s.
The rest of us now look at them with disdain.
We know they manufacture the woke widgets in their humanity departments. Critical race and gender and queer theory. Marx’s struggle sessions from the old communists who tucked in for tenure after losing the culture wars of the 60s.
Asking campuses to be trusted leaders in the fight against authoritarian speech suppression is like asking Israelis to trust Hamas in the fight against jihadism . They actively worked against the interests of normal, everyday Americans. Trump is the pushback against THEM. They are a failed messenger and an illegitimate actor in what comes next. Reconstitute universities to be more than just uber-progressive, mono-thought revolution factories - that hate our history and our people - then perhaps they can restore their reputation as an honest broker for this mission.
Cheeto and Putin: The Lawless Immoral Evil Axis of Two
So being a Russian agent since the 1980’s and being rewarded with an endless stream of money from Russian oligarchs to keep his bankrupt businesses afloat(https://bit.ly/4188w5B) over the years, Cheeto being the lawless transactional scumbag he is, has decided to return the support to his Russian war criminal counterpart Hey, if you can shamelessly release a convicted three time convicted murderer onto the streets of Orlando, all of the J6 rioters, and an overwhelmingly too many to count convicted felons with pardons, what’s the big deal helping a war criminal extricate himself from a war he started(https://bit.ly/4mOD4Bw)
It’s clear that Putin is getting back his due from Cheeto who is putting together and overseeing a sweetheart “real estate Ukrainian land deal” for his fellow partner in crime while the European leaders watch the slicing and dicing of the sovereign country he invaded, claiming that historically all along it was his to begin with There are those who justify this imperialistic power land grab but who will be next? Azerbaijan, Turkestan, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan, Poland, Baltic states? But these aren’t as valuable as eastern Ukraine And who knows, Cheeto and fellow dictator can split up the mineral rights spoils of a war gone horribly wrong
Perhaps you may want to tell us about your favorite cheepo, who helped Putin to gain 20% of worldwide supply of uranium in exchange for $138 mln to her/his foundation? You can find details in 2013 NYT articles. Don’t settle for the later ones, cleaned up versions 🤡😘
This 👆👆👆 was the beginning of a wonderful friendship for the evil axis. A few moths later, anti-missiles shield in the Central Europe was cancelled by the same your favorite cheepos …. with many more followed.
It’s kind of funny that the one whom you call cheep and part of the axis, from the get-go demanded that Europe stopped financing Putin through purchases of energy. Despite that Europe is still buying to the tune of tens of billions …
Then the one whom you call cheepo, demanded that NATO members fulfil their financial commitments, then raised them from 2% to 5% …
How does this make sense to you?
As a philosopher posited: there are no contradictions in nature. If you see a contradiction, check your premises 😉
You folks at FIRE are off the rails. Sad to see, but I sincerely hope there's nothing left after the crash. I'll fully support your successor organization, one that is truly about free expression rather than promoting and sustaining ideological capture and extinguishing de facto freedom of thought and action.
Why would a university open a satellite campus? How does it become a stronger institution of knowledge, research, and education through creating a copy of itself with faculty that will rarely interact with those on the main campus? The answer, of course, is that it doesn't. Satellite campuses are just a money play, leveraging the university's brand to increase revenue like any good for-profit corporation.
Perhaps the issue is less to do with Free Speech and more to do with Bought Speech. If we want to ensure that the university are bastions of Free Speech, let's ensure that foreign interests cannot buy the speech they want.
Restrict both the amount of foreign money and students to a level that ensures domestic rather than foreign interests. How about 90% domestic students and funding as a cap?
This essay really bothered me—not because it is wrong, but because of its omissions. It is absolutely correct that foreign money is corrupting U.S. universities, but the devil is in the details of how foreign money is corrupting our interpretation of academic freedom—often mistaken for First Amendment issues on private campuses. No essay can fully address this subject without noting how protests against Israel were also the locus of harassment, intimidation, and violence against Jews on campus simply because they were Jewish. These incidents were well documented, violated federal law, and were therefore falsely portrayed as peaceful. University administrations not only chose to ignore federal civil rights legislation as they rationalized away these incidents; they also allowed blatant discrimination and violence against an ethno-religious minority. Democracy will not be fully restored in the United States until this discrimination, as well as the campus misuse of the concept of free speech, is acknowledged.
I see, I am not the only one bothered by the piece. 20,000 feet view is fine and dandy, but what about details?
“For students and faculty, the first step is to know your rights. The easiest way to lose those rights is to be ignorant of them.”
Great! What are student’s rights? What can they do and how fight when their rights violated?
Being associated with FIRE should make it easy-peasy to right a comprehensive guide for students with concrete example if the impact of fighting back.
At the very least, why not point to resources which can inform students about their rights?
P.S. it’s also amazing that while mentioning foreign influences, the author did not think necessary to mention take over of education by the left, which McCarty-ed the right OUT of education.
Hello! Read the book!
:D Great! Now I shall spend hours of my life on what shall be a 10-15 minute read. Makes sense!
In business when I see a book I am interested in, I find a HBR article by the author on the topic that covers the book nicely in 15 minutes ... without unnecessary fluff, wasting hours of my life ... WHEN I get to read it.
So, the question is, did the author meant to educate or just sell a book. If the later, this is the last time I am reading anything by the author.
Where were these activists when people lost jobs and were refused services for refusing to wear pointless cloth masks during COVID? Where were they when people with natural COVID immunity (which is BETTER immunity than the 'vaccine') were fired and ostracized for absolutely no good reason?
Hypocrisy is not pretty, and it gets no respect from me. If you want me to watch out for your rights, then you watch out for mine. Otherwise, have a nice day. Don't call me, I'll call you.
Today’s universities pushed all their chips on the table for progressive wokeness. They bet it all. Their reputations, their brands. They wanted to be vanguards for the Next Big Leap Forward as they (in their minds) did in the 60s.
The rest of us now look at them with disdain.
We know they manufacture the woke widgets in their humanity departments. Critical race and gender and queer theory. Marx’s struggle sessions from the old communists who tucked in for tenure after losing the culture wars of the 60s.
Asking campuses to be trusted leaders in the fight against authoritarian speech suppression is like asking Israelis to trust Hamas in the fight against jihadism . They actively worked against the interests of normal, everyday Americans. Trump is the pushback against THEM. They are a failed messenger and an illegitimate actor in what comes next. Reconstitute universities to be more than just uber-progressive, mono-thought revolution factories - that hate our history and our people - then perhaps they can restore their reputation as an honest broker for this mission.
Cheeto and Putin: The Lawless Immoral Evil Axis of Two
So being a Russian agent since the 1980’s and being rewarded with an endless stream of money from Russian oligarchs to keep his bankrupt businesses afloat(https://bit.ly/4188w5B) over the years, Cheeto being the lawless transactional scumbag he is, has decided to return the support to his Russian war criminal counterpart Hey, if you can shamelessly release a convicted three time convicted murderer onto the streets of Orlando, all of the J6 rioters, and an overwhelmingly too many to count convicted felons with pardons, what’s the big deal helping a war criminal extricate himself from a war he started(https://bit.ly/4mOD4Bw)
It’s clear that Putin is getting back his due from Cheeto who is putting together and overseeing a sweetheart “real estate Ukrainian land deal” for his fellow partner in crime while the European leaders watch the slicing and dicing of the sovereign country he invaded, claiming that historically all along it was his to begin with There are those who justify this imperialistic power land grab but who will be next? Azerbaijan, Turkestan, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan, Poland, Baltic states? But these aren’t as valuable as eastern Ukraine And who knows, Cheeto and fellow dictator can split up the mineral rights spoils of a war gone horribly wrong
Hmmmm how is this related to the article?
Perhaps you may want to tell us about your favorite cheepo, who helped Putin to gain 20% of worldwide supply of uranium in exchange for $138 mln to her/his foundation? You can find details in 2013 NYT articles. Don’t settle for the later ones, cleaned up versions 🤡😘
I give up who?
Ignorance is a bliss, isn’t it?
Why? NYT hides it? 🤯
Someone who only 1.5 months after assuming power and 7 months after Putin beat off Osetia and Dagestan, pull off a 6th grade shtick to kiss a ring:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee4PfhogtdQ
This 👆👆👆 was the beginning of a wonderful friendship for the evil axis. A few moths later, anti-missiles shield in the Central Europe was cancelled by the same your favorite cheepos …. with many more followed.
It’s kind of funny that the one whom you call cheep and part of the axis, from the get-go demanded that Europe stopped financing Putin through purchases of energy. Despite that Europe is still buying to the tune of tens of billions …
Then the one whom you call cheepo, demanded that NATO members fulfil their financial commitments, then raised them from 2% to 5% …
How does this make sense to you?
As a philosopher posited: there are no contradictions in nature. If you see a contradiction, check your premises 😉
You folks at FIRE are off the rails. Sad to see, but I sincerely hope there's nothing left after the crash. I'll fully support your successor organization, one that is truly about free expression rather than promoting and sustaining ideological capture and extinguishing de facto freedom of thought and action.
Why would a university open a satellite campus? How does it become a stronger institution of knowledge, research, and education through creating a copy of itself with faculty that will rarely interact with those on the main campus? The answer, of course, is that it doesn't. Satellite campuses are just a money play, leveraging the university's brand to increase revenue like any good for-profit corporation.
What is your line where speech becomes incitement?
Perhaps the issue is less to do with Free Speech and more to do with Bought Speech. If we want to ensure that the university are bastions of Free Speech, let's ensure that foreign interests cannot buy the speech they want.
Restrict both the amount of foreign money and students to a level that ensures domestic rather than foreign interests. How about 90% domestic students and funding as a cap?