On Scaling Back the Enshittification of University Bureaucracy
More than a month ago, I agreed to an offer to be a visiting scholar at a private US university next year.| digressionsimpressions.substack.com
More than a month ago, I agreed to an offer to be a visiting scholar at a private US university next year. This was no simple matter because of obligations to my own family and (somewhat more unexpectedly) my department. I have made no public announcement on it yet not because I am especially personally worried by the Trump administration’s policies toward higher education, but rather because I am still completing (electronic) paperwork and background-checks from the host institution. (It w...| Crooked Timber
More than a month ago, I agreed to an offer to be a visiting scholar at a private US university next year.| digressionsimpressions.substack.com
Before Rawls’ shadow in left-liberal political philosophy there was Arnold S. Kaufman (1927-1971), who died when his airplane collided with a military jet while traveling (recall this post). While there is no Wikipedia page devoted to him, Kaufman was rather famous during the 1960s because of his involvement with the student movement at the University of Michigan and especially by promoting ‘participatory democracy’ in the context of the Port Huron Statement (as the New York Times not...| Crooked Timber
Before Rawls’ shadow in political philosophy there was in left-liberalism, Arnold S.| digressionsimpressions.substack.com
