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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · 7d

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Emory University cuts DEI and fires faculty over Charlie Kirk post

At Emory's first senate meeting this year, the interim president gave non-answers about cutting DEI and firing faculty for Facebook posts.

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Sep 7

This was painful to write. I hate that Emory’s new interim president, on her second day of office, just last week, called for abolishing DEI programs at Emory.
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Is Emory Joining the Club of Capitulators?

Stepping into the role of Emory University’s interim president, Justice Leah Ward Sears brought with her quite a legacy: a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, the youngest person eve...

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Jul 28

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What a university sounds like when it complies — and what truth sounds like.

The Sound of Capitulation

What is the sound of capitulation?

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Jul 3

How authoritarianism is a containment vessel for the precarity anxiety generated by unfettered capitalism. My upcoming talk for the ISPP open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...

Containing Precarity

the new authoritarian playbook

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Jun 16

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Why I am not leaving the USA

at least not yet

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Jun 8

Thoughts upon waking up in Crete to the news from California open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...

Protecting the Wetlands of Democracy

notes from crete

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · May 27

On What Comes to Mind --see my piece on the unconscious origins of our political perceptions: open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...

On What Comes to Mind

notes toward my book on authoritarian psyches

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · May 8

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On Viewpoint Diversity

and the idiocy of people who clamor for it

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Apr 25

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Apr 25

Here's a piece of mine published in today's Atlanta Journal Constitution on the 1-year anniversary of the police riot on my campus. www.ajc.com/education/ge...

Emory University students and faculty mark one year since police moved in on protesters.

Emory University professor Noëlle McAfee writes of what happened on the Emory campus a year ago.

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Apr 25

I was thinking the same today.

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Apr 25

Here at Emory we are wondering why on earth is our university president not signing on to the AAC&U letter. Local newspaper story on this here:

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Universities unite against government 'interference' but few from South join in

Hundreds of universities across the United States are speaking out for academic freedom, but few schools in the South have joined the opposition to the Trump adminsitration.

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Apr 14

A little psychoanalytic theorizing for our times. noellemcafee.substack.com/p/americas-q...

America's Quilting Points Under Fire

At about age three, I sat at a kitchen table drawing pictures of sailboats on the sea, wondering if it was possible to think about an object like this if I didn’t have a word for it.

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Apr 7

The difference between university presidents who are courageous, complicit, and cowardly. open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...

How Universities Become Tools for Tyranny

and how to prevent that from happening

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Peter Schöttler @pschottler.bsky.social · Feb 13

Interview with Joan Wallach Scott.
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La résistance universitaire au trumpisme

L’historienne Joan W. Scott est professeure émérite à l’Institute for Advanced Study de Princeton, New Jersey. Mondialement célèbre pour avoir [...]

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Mar 24

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Adam Shatz | Submission

There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Mar 24

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Noelle McAfee | Substack

Philosopher trying to make sense of the dark side of humanity in the miidst of so much beauty. Philosophy professor and champion of academic freedom at Emory University. Author of five books including...

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Mar 15

Next week I'll be giving a talk here: societyforcriticalexchange.org/winter-theor...

Insurrection

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Mar 15

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LaConference 2025: October 17th and 18th, Vancouver, Canada - Lacan Salon

Feminine Desire: Honoring the Life and Work of Anne Dufourmantelle and Mari Ruti Keynote Speakers: Noëlle McAfee and Ana Houine Call for Papers The LaConference 2025 will explore and honor the work of...

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Mar 11

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US judge blocks deportation of Palestinian activist detained by Ice

Critics condemn arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, Columbia University graduate student who led protests over Gaza war

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Mar 9

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The Trumpists’ Mass Delusions

In a 1967 piece for The New Yorker magazine, title “Truth and Politics,” Hannah Arendt foretold something happening today as the alt-right attempts to whitewash away the reality of racial, ethnic, …

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Feb 19

This college president isn’t afraid of Donald Trump

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Feb 18

What do they want? To make America conform again. To make everyone afraid to be anyone. To kill your spirit. Screw them and #resist

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Feb 13

Professor Michael Eng on Digital Wynter.

Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Feb 12

#resistance is a force that gives us meaning. The trumpians are trying to flood us and overwhelm us. Don’t get distracted. Focus on the 1 or 2 things you deeply care about and dive in deep there.

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