People say academia doesn't need print books or journals any more - but the printed material may be all that survives the next 50 years, let alone the next 500.
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People say academia doesn't need print books or journals any more - but the printed material may be all that survives the next 50 years, let alone the next 500.
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My sense of what the Trump team think is within the realm of the Overton window for them: America becomes the kind of managed democracy we see in Hungary/Singapore/Russia/Turkey (etc) wherein it's far easier for the favoured classes to vote, & while opposition exists it can never get too powerful...
Today we dig out of the grading hole, praying that it will be a truly faithful way to live in this bonkers world.
I still think, if we’re going to completely subordinate higher education to commerce, we should send HS graduates off to low-level jobs in fields where they think they might thrive and then, when they’re 25, their employers can pay to send them to college