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It no longer makes democracy an object of reverence, or a front-cover concern because… well, stories about Thomas Jefferson won’t open the door to do business in Russia and Saudi Arabia and China. 13/
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Alan Mairson
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Alan Mairson
@AlanMairson
I'm a freelance journalist; former staff writer & editor @ National Geographic magazine; Red Sox fan; & (after-hours) producer of https://t.co/mlz0VD1A5l
Bethesda, Maryland Katılım Aralık 2008
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@mroth78 @CommishAACU @aacu I keep asking you, Michael, about Wesleyan's distribution and graduation requirements, but I never hear back from you. So I wrote this: outofbabel.substack.com/p/michael-roth… ... Am I overlooking something important?
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Read @CommishAACU "The careful process of preparing students for democratic citizenship requires helping them understand the great multiplicity of people, cultures and beliefs that make up the world we live in." @aacu insidehighered.com/opinion/views/…
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@tomkennedy "Read"??!! You mean "words"??!!😂
You're talking like someone from the 7th floor, Tom & we live in an 8th-floor world now. Pictures. Emotion. Appearances. We fill cabinet positions w/people who *look* the part.
No one reads anymore. What's happened to you? 😊
(Hope all is well.)
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No. Full Stop. She tried to open a closed heart with a gentle, earnest message pleading for an empathy that the President and his adherents seem incapable of understanding. Read Micah 6:8 and Matthew 5:7. That is what she was expressing.
Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog@DougWahl1
SHOULD SHE APOLOGIES? After being confronted by the teachings of Jesus, Donald Trump issued a statement saying Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde should apologies to him and to the entire nation. Your thoughts?
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@mroth78 @wesleyan_u @ctzns_schlrs @aacu @Wes_engage Dear President Roth,
You should reread Michael Sandel's "Tyranny of Merit."
His diagnosis of what's ails higher education is far more accurate than your own.
Sincerely,
Alan Mairson
Wesleyan '81
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"Constitutional democracy doesn’t work if people are stuck in the station they’re born into, and education can still be an effective lubricant, and a powerful corrective to entrenched inequality." @wesleyan_u @ctzns_schlrs @aacu @Wes_engage
New York Times Opinion@nytopinion
“Elite education has lost the trust of many Americans, in no small part because of how it solidifies the advantages of wealth,” @mroth78 writes. Read: nyti.ms/41SOc9o
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@jayrosen_nyu @froomkin You’re right, it’s not. ☺️
I’ve long been fascinated by what happens when a journalist’s worldview no longer coheres. It happened to Jon Stewart… to Elizabeth Kolbert… to you, evidently… to many others… and to me.
Stewart & Kolbert audio here:
towers.substack.com/p/remember-me
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@AlanMairson @froomkin On what's next for me I will have some news soon. That's probably not what you meant, though. 😎
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@JeffSharlet P.S. This seems relevant here. You might find it interesting: outofbabel.substack.com/p/id-prefer-th…
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@JeffSharlet re "My interests are elsewhere." When I read that I almost fell out of my chair. I've been reading you for many years, and your main focus has been on the Christian Right. If that's not Jewish adjacent, I'm not sure what is. ... Thanks again for all your great work.
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@JeffSharlet P.S. “I believe what I believe” doesn’t sound like the curious & inquisitive Jeff Sharlet I’ve enjoyed reading all these years.
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@JamesFallows Forgive me if this has already been said: Aren't the Democrats and Republicans trying to fill two different positions? Dems: Chief executive of the federal government. Repub: Chief arsonist tasked with burning down the "administrative state." Why demand the same job skills?
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@JeffSharlet Trump may be defeated. But Trumpism will live on.
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@yhazony Which one of the 613 mitzvot says: “Rally Christendom from its slumber?”
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When reporters become storytellers, this is the natural result:
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@JeffSharlet If you have a minute, I'd love your reaction to Tom Holland's analysis of fascism's adoration of power & hatred of weakness. Short video clip at bottom of this post:
outofbabel.substack.com/p/a-grotesquel…
Does that sound accurate?
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Reporters informed the public. But then reporters decided "just the facts" was boring. Narrative and the making of meaning -- much more fun. So reporters became storytellers. Stories need tension, conflict, drama.
And here we are.
Dean Baker@DeanBaker13
I guess I am old-fashioned but we used to think it was the responsibility of the media to inform the public. I realize that can be hard, but their incredible failure in this case is not something to laugh off.
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