Daily Archives: March 8, 2025

NYT: ‘‘People Are Going Silent’: Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves’

You can imagine my dismay when I read in the New York Times March 6, 2025: “People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their … Continue reading

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Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation (1991)

Susanne Klingenstein wrote: Being a transnational philologist was for [Leo] Wiener‘s mind what being a farmer was for his body: it eased tension. And it rooted the self — in the soil and in humanity… He did not belong [at … Continue reading

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