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    Mass Tech Layoffs? Just Another Day in the Corporate Blender

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    Walter Massey, a Physicist With a Higher Calling

    He broke barriers as the first Black physicist in nearly every role. But his identity made...

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    Inside the Blunders That Plunged the College Admission Season Into Disarray

    The Education Department was supposed to make applying for federal financial aid easier. Instead, it got...

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    Opinion | The Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law

    A highly politicized Supreme Court makes it far more difficult to teach students about the fundamentals...

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    California’s Push for Ethnic Studies Runs Into the Israel-Hamas War

    Link URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/us/california-ethnic-studies-israel-gaza-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk0.3mzf.u6x_PjSaZYed&smid=url-share Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~humanities/1e9m/californias_push_for_mandatory_ethnic_studies_classes_runs_into_the_israel_palestine_conflict_in Votes: 18 Comments: 20

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    ‘It Is Suffocating’: A Top Liberal University Is Under Attack in India

    A campaign to make the country an explicitly Hindu nation has had a chilling effect on...

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    Utah Bans DEI Programs, Joining Other States

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    Recruited to Play Sports, and Win a Culture War

    Link URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/magazine/new-college-desantis-florida.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SE0.etm9.OWfPkKBzcWjF&bgrp=c&smid=url-share Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~sports/1dxc/recruited_to_play_sports_and_win_a_culture_war_gifted_link Votes: 3 Comments: 2

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    Opinion | How to Save a Sad, Lonely, Angry and Mean Society

    Consuming culture gives us the emotional knowledge that can make us better people.

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    College Is All About Curiosity. And That Requires Free Speech.

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    ‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. Crusade

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  • Florida Eliminates Sociology as a Core Course at Its Universities

    In December, Florida’s education commissioner wrote that “sociology has been hijacked by left-wing activists.”

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    The Misguided War on the SAT

    Link URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/briefing/the-misguided-war-on-the-sat.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Pk0.8YtX.TM_8YMTr-rXB&smid=url-share Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~humanities/1dpy/the_misguided_war_on_the_sat_gifted_link Votes: 22 Comments: 19

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    Opinion | Critics of D.E.I. Forget That It Works

    As the will to engage in D.E.I. programs is waning, it can be tempting to make...

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    After Affirmative Action Ban, They Rewrote College Essays With a Key Theme: Race

    The Supreme Court’s ruling intended to remove the consideration of race during the admissions process. So...