Does it or doesn’t it? Are we seeing democracy taken apart by force, or are we not? Please choose only one

If you insist that the fate of democracy hangs on you, which is what is implied when you say that it hangs on people voting for you, you could at least play along yourself

If I’m sitting almost anywhere else right now, after that asinine nationalist harangue, it reads as self-soothing from citizens of a belligerent power

Perhaps it rallies short-term resistance to him specifically, but it sounds like a longer-term dodge of what brought this shit-show about

if anyone had a sense of shame we would never here the phrase “American leadership” again in our lifetimes

The guy I’m talking about self-identified that way though

I agree there’s no substantive difference

The ramblings of a demented racist uncle get prime airtime because nobody is willing to treat unhinged power as unhinged. The contortions it takes to act as if this is normal, massive as they are, are less alarming than the fact that every major media organization has undertaken them without pause

"but surely it at least means that management is effective and efficient?"

sit down, this is going to be hard for you to hear

the humanities make some relationships easier to see (and others harder) but running academia like a business is ultimately bad for academic disciplines as such

now I think about it, a Quillette editor went on a tweet-rant about a decade ago about how there can't be any "nazis" now because it's not the 1930s, so radical centrists have been here for a while

matter of time before it boils down to “well actually the Gestapo was in Germany, whereas…”

It’s the smallest piece of this but all the fluff about Canada being a haven for the US intelligentsia-in-exile boils down to poaching a thimbleful of stars, a handful of AI researchers, and as much tuition as possible