Brown University Sociology@Brown Story Public Square Jim Ludes john seely brown heyyyyyyyy auntie Kurt Andersen Dan Little Tom Perez @WatsonInstitute Rob Blair - robertblair.bsky.social Craig Calhoun IPK Natasha Warikoo Chinyere Agbai Bart Bonikowski University of Michigan Todd Gitlin Dan Yorke State of Mind Emma Chow Alex Cramer Craig Melvin bill peduto Peter Baker Glenn Kessler Charles M. Blow Neal Katyal George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 Kamala Harris Governor Josh Shapiro Gavin Newsom Hillary Clinton Bill Clinton Senator Patty Murray Rep. Ilhan Omar James E. Clyburn Jasmine Crockett Sen. Tammy Baldwin Columbia University Harvard University Kenneth Roth Barack Obama Cornell University Northwestern Big Ten Conference American Association of University Professors m. gessen Matthew Connelly As Matthew Connelly indicated yesterday, Columbia University is reported to be recentering its commitment to #AcademicFreedom nytimes.com/2025/04/15/nyr… even if it is negotiating more w Trump than engaging its faculty, say some of their number. But movement is apparent in these accounts.

This is the nuclear option. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Brown University Sociology@Brown Story Public Square Jim Ludes john seely brown heyyyyyyyy auntie Kurt Andersen Dan Little Tom Perez @WatsonInstitute Rob Blair - robertblair.bsky.social Craig Calhoun IPK Natasha Warikoo Chinyere Agbai Bart Bonikowski University of Michigan Todd Gitlin Dan Yorke State of Mind Emma Chow Alex Cramer Craig Melvin bill peduto Peter Baker Glenn Kessler Charles M. Blow Neal Katyal George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 Kamala Harris Governor Josh Shapiro Gavin Newsom Hillary Clinton Bill Clinton Senator Patty Murray Rep. Ilhan Omar James E. Clyburn Jasmine Crockett Sen. Tammy Baldwin Columbia University Harvard University Kenneth Roth Barack Obama Cornell University Northwestern Big Ten Conference American Association of University Professors m. gessen Matthew Connelly "no legal basis for rescinding @harvard's tax status. (it) would endanger our ability to carry out our educational mission'.. would signify a drastic breach in the independence of the IRS & its historical insulation from political pressure" nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/…

Michael D. Kennedy Brown University Sociology@Brown Story Public Square Jim Ludes john seely brown heyyyyyyyy auntie Kurt Andersen Dan Little Tom Perez @WatsonInstitute Rob Blair - robertblair.bsky.social IPK Natasha Warikoo Chinyere Agbai Bart Bonikowski University of Michigan Todd Gitlin Dan Yorke State of Mind Emma Chow Alex Cramer Craig Melvin bill peduto Peter Baker Glenn Kessler Charles M. Blow Neal Katyal George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 Kamala Harris Governor Josh Shapiro Gavin Newsom Hillary Clinton Bill Clinton Senator Patty Murray Rep. Ilhan Omar James E. Clyburn Jasmine Crockett Sen. Tammy Baldwin Columbia University Harvard University Kenneth Roth Barack Obama Cornell University Northwestern Big Ten Conference American Association of University Professors m. gessen Matthew Connelly This is good, but it would be better to see a LOT more faculty solidarity to support academic freedom in teaching, research-based knowledge, scholarship, and intellectual debate.

Pete Hegseth (2016) on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server: “Any security professional, military, government or otherwise, would be fired on the spot…and criminally prosecuted for being so reckless with this kind of information.”

Harvard has set up a website on its contributions to society. 155 patents issued in 2024 alone. New cancer treatments in the pipeline. Treatments for dementia. Seeing our universities as woke factories completely misses the point.

This story is insane. Zuckerberg pushed so hard for realistic AI chatbots that they started sexualizing conversations with children. WSJ tested accounts. /1

“‘The full mental health impacts of humans forging meaningful connections with fictional chatbots are still widely unknown,’ one employee wrote. ‘We should not be testing these capabilities on youth whose brains are still not fully developed.’” /6

A remarkable statement by Jewish students at Columbia University that is well worth reading.

This group has long advocated for increasing democratic accountability. It is a non-partisan body of scholars that challenged both Democratic and Republican administrations. It is more evidence of one man’s greed for power and the people who enable him. History will judge.

Columbia students showing what real leadership looks like. They are displaying more maturity than many professors. columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/04/2…

Great thanks to my amazing legal team! The fight continues to stop this Administration's continuing violations of the #RuleOfLaw. #SecurityClearance

BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security just told Harvard University it will lose its ability to enroll international students if it doesn't comply with a list of demands within 72 hours. Among those demands is an astounding requirement that Harvard hand over "all audio or video

So much winning. nytimes.com/2025/05/23/wor… via @NYTimes

Matthew Connelly The New York Times Beyond belief

Great. Now we are war with Belgium. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/b… via @nbcnews

I know we're having fun, but imagine how much MORE fun it would be to live in a functioning democracy where two fragile billionaires crashing out didn't impact, say, rural hospital closures.

Jim Ryan is admirable person and a solid university president. This is bald-face authoritarian politics of the ugliest form. nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/…

I can’t wait to start indoctrinating my students with radical ideas this fall.

Lara is brilliant