Howard Eissenstat
Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, SUITS
MENA History and Politics
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Also block folks who tell me my border collie is akshually a kelpie
- The gratuitous destruction of US scientific dominance is absolutely unprecedented. The closest parallel I can think of to what the US is currently doing to itself is the Ottoman Empire limiting printing presses to protect the scribes' guild. It didn't work out well.
- Aside from everything else, I hope Trump continues to blow off Israeli concerns about, well, everything for the pure, unadulterated, schadenfreude that it delivers
- One of the many things I respect about @jamellebouie.net is his willingness to call out his employer's bullshit on an almost daily basis
- i am fascinated by the editorial choice to give the last word to a disbarred charlatan pushing a discredited constitutional theory www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...
- Bibi is looking at what is going on with Trump and seems to have concluded that a quick fait accompli is his best option.
- Is anybody surprised by the examples that come up? Business schools? Adjuncts being asked to carry shocking teaching loads with little or no support? Online classes aimed at maximizing university revenue? It's an article about AI in the classroom, but points to a host of other pathologies.
- Now it's the professors using ChatGPT. Students aren't happy about it. I talked to professors. I talked to students. I read the scathing reviews on Rate My Professors. Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
- One basic problem with the MAGA folks is that they have embraced a sort of lumpen cynicism in which "everybody does it." This, in turn, allows them to do shit that nobody fucking does.
- There is no contradiction between believing that universities were prone to group think and political homogeneity before the Republican crackdown, on the one hand, and believing that the Republican crackdown is dishonest and vastly more dangerous than whatever problems universities had, on the other
- 2018
- Apropos of everything: www.reuters.com/article/worl...
- I have no words for my anger, for my disgust.
