Back in the old days say…during the Bush administration, there were all sorts of attacks on academic freedom. There were attacks on science and many of the various humanities and social science disciplines. But those assaults came almost always from outside the academy: from politicians who declared themselves arbiters of morality or scientific rigor. That’s […]
Bannon’s Alt-Right and Israel’s Far-Right Incite Anti-Muslim Holy War
Buzzfeed just published a dump of Breitbart e-mails, text messages, videos, and recordings mainly focussing on Milo Yiannopoulos. And what an eye-opener it is! We all knew how much he hated feminists and Blacks and Muslims. But we didn’t know that Jews were also honored guests in the pantheon of Milo-hate. His passwords and conversations […]
Charlottesville Officials Permitted Mass Pogrom, One Dead, Scores Injured
UPDATE: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who himself is a former white supremacist, announces a federal civil rights investigation of the Charlottesville massacre. In the meantime, Richard Spencer announces he will return to finish the work he started in Charlottesville. Not happy with killing only one person, he wants to return and kill some more: “You […]
Right-Wing Media Assault Against Evergreen College Provokes White Supremacist Mass Murder Threats
Over the past week, white supremacists have launched repeated death threats against Washington’s The Evergreen State College in Olympia. At least three sets of threats were sent or phoned to the campus by white supremacists, who said they planned to bring weapons to the school and massacre students and faculty. Evergreen is known as one […]
