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Steve Bannon is coming to University of Chicago to perform “reasoned debate.” John Warner writes: Zingales says, “Hate cannot be defeated by hate, but only by reason.”Huh? Perhaps hate cannot defeat hate, but does this mean our only alternative is “reason?”I’m trying to think of a single instance in recorded history where hate was defeated …
University of Chicago’s Open Letter condemns white supremacist abuse toward scholars of color: https://t.co/9WuFYnbNYZ — medievalpoc (@medievalpoc) October 31, 2017 This letter from the English faculty does a nice job of parsing how to talk about free speech while considering how to protect the vulnerable. They write: We wish to reaffirm that our role as …
There’s been a lot of coverage (in my little slice of the world) of a medievalist at the University of Chicago who has been writing quite outrageous things about Milo the Professional Bigot. There’s more to say about Milo, but lots of folks are already saying it. Here’s my thread on the context surrounding Fulton. …
In an unforced error, the Dean of Students at the University of Chicago published a letter welcoming students to the university by telling them there would be no safe spaces or trigger warnings at his fine institution. The letter went viral, and we returned predictably to the same conversations we’ve been having about this for …