NEW at Pacific Standard: On Monday, Dean Moneta went into a campus coffee shop for tea and a vegan muffin, was offended by the lyrics of a rap song that came up on the shop’s Spotify playlist, and promptly had the two employees on duty fired. In this case—as in other recent cases where professors…
Around the country, the Koch Brothers are donating to universities to create right-wing-only counter institutions within more open institutions, creating precisely the kind of ideological bubble they claim to deplore. Here’s the latest from Arizona State University. I served as the director of the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University…