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Tag: politics

America’s Modern Character: Paranoid Loser

May 23, 2022May 23, 2022 ~ cafebedouin ~ 2 Comments

"[Columbia professor Adam Tooze, writer of the definitive forensic analysis of the 2008 financial crisis in Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World,] does not buy the line that America is roaring back at the head of a resurgent West, even if the autocracies have suffered a crushing reverse over recent months. … Continue reading America’s Modern Character: Paranoid Loser

Woke or Witch-Hunt?

May 21, 2022May 21, 2022 ~ cafebedouin

"At the protest, I met Tulsi Patel, a postdoc at Columbia. Patel tells me about a new bullying policy at Columbia, which she helped to write, to deal with “power-based harassment” that doesn’t fall into the already illegal categories like sex and race-based harassment. “We recommended calling it the Office of Conflict Resolution, just to … Continue reading Woke or Witch-Hunt?

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