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Monthly Archives: November 2025
A Belated Thanksgiving Post (Gary Krenz)
Thanksgiving is a few days past, but here’s a belated thanksgiving post — just before the end of the holiday weekend. To begin, here’s a nice post by Robert Reich from a few days ago: “Gratitude: Thanksgiving thoughts.” It has … Continue reading
The Washington Post Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all (Dan Little)
This is surely a war crime, on a par with atrocities committed by the Russian army in Ukraine. No members of these boat crews are “combatants” in the technical sense, there is no state of war, and disarmed and helpless … Continue reading
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State Media by Proxy (Gary Krenz)
Ben Schwartz has an excellent piece in The Nation, “Trump’s Quest for Total Media Control.” It lays out in concise fashion how the various strands of Trump’s attacks on media — from trying to get Jimmy Kimmel and others fired to … Continue reading
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Trump: Democrats’ message to troops seditious behavior, punishable by death – BBC News
This is truly an outrage. If any private person posted such a message he would be investigated and likely prosecuted for making threats of violence against specific persons. How can it be that our president can make deadly threats and … Continue reading
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Border Patrol monitors US drivers and detains Americans for ‘suspicious’ travel | AP News
Wow, this is a pretty amazing secretive program of mass surveillance across the United States. Did we the people agree to have our travels tracked and analyzed, and then used as a basis for highway stops leading to searches and … Continue reading
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“Remove the Regime” protests in DC to demand Trump’s impeachment
Another mass protest against the dictatorial efforts and strategies of the Trump administration … Let the people speak! "Remove the Regime" protests in DC to demand Trump’s impeachment https://share.google/mBuZvjMet95fMlm2N
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat: “Intellectual Freedom in an Authoritarian Age”
As I promised in an earlier post, here is the video of Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s outstanding Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom at the University of Michigan. It is well worth watching!
Terrorism and the White House (Gary Krenz)
The Oxford English Dictionary defines “terrorism” as “2. gen. A policy intended to strike with terror those against whom it is adopted; the employment of methods of intimidation; the fact of terrorizing or condition of being terrorized.” As definitions go, it’s … Continue reading
LDF Denounces Texas A&M University System’s Adoption of New Discriminatory Policy Restricting Teaching of Race and Gender
A very clear and carefully reasoned critique of the Texas A and M policy requiring the president’s approval for courses on race, gender, and gender identity … Push back! https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/ldf-denounces-texas-am-university-systems-adoption-of-new-discriminatory-policy-restricting-teaching-of-race-and-gender/
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New Chair of History Says the Discipline Should Document the Past and Engage With the Present | Columbia News
What an admirable demonstration of academic freedom by the incoming chair of the history department at Columbia University. Camille Robcis doesn’t offer a treatise about the principle of academic freedom. Instead, she demonstrates her own commitments to academic freedom and … Continue reading
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Affirming Democracy, Gathering Resistance 