Jeffrey Sachs
@JeffreyASachs
Acadia University. Judicial politics, authoritarianism, Islam, free speech and education. Tweets do not represent the views of my Employer.
“Any scholar who does not avenge himself and bear a grudge like a snake is no scholar.” — Rabbi Yohanan (B. Talmud, Yoma 22b-23a), who would have been awesome on Twitter.
On the one hand, a person should be allowed to steal a loaf of bread to feed his sister and her seven starving children. On the other hand, if somebody snatches my baguette as some sort of joke I’m gonna slap him all the way to Rouen and that does not make me a hypocrite.
The Victorian Socialists support breaking into homes and squatting so I thought I would take a sleeping bag and pillow and try sleep in their front office for a few nights. They threatened to call the police on me even though I told them I was in need of housing. So fucked up
The first essay of my new column for @insidehighered, called “Debatable Ideas,” features a critique of the Manhattan Statement. insidehighered.com/opinion/column…
This week's newsletter: What Do Conservatives Offer Universities?: nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi…
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
This is just the same shtick rightwingers gave about Islam back when I was a kid. It’s the most predictable stuff in the world. No more complicated, no less bigoted.
Hard to give a shit about hurty words concerning a religion 90% of whose global faithful support a holocaust in their name with sexually violent enthusiasm by an army in uniforms decorated in the same religious iconography they burn into the flesh of the children they're culling
BC nurse alleges she was fired for her political speech. cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
There is nobody as powerful and prominent as Randy Fine who talks about Israelis the way Fine talks about Palestinians (and Muslims more generally). No one. And he will 100% get away with it because that sort of shit is, in America’s commanding heights, far more acceptable.
A Harvard publisher canceled an entire special issue of a journal on education and Palestine that planned to cover topics from the annihilation of Gaza’s schools to the challenges of teaching about Israel and Palestine in the United States. trib.al/pBFBGfZ
As we are inundated with concern trolling over whether Jews will be “safe” with Mamdani as mayor, remember that middle eastern and Palestinian Americans have to deal with the fact that this Nazi, who supports killing MENA and Palestinian children, is in federal office.
Release the hostages. Until then, starve away. (This is all a lie anyway. It amazes me that the media continues to regurgitate Muslim terror propaganda.)
Fascist: I am a real life fascist. Fascism is cool and liberalism is dumb. [gets fired] Fascist: But…but muh free speech.
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Finally some viewpoint diversity at The Free Press.
Big news. @havivrettiggur joins @TheFP as a regular contributor. His first livestream will be this Wednesday. thefp.com/p/haviv-rettig…
Mamdani here does something I've been pleading with prominent Democrats to do for years: anticipate bad-faith right-wing attacks, and pre-empt them, draining them of most of their force. And he proves you don't have to be severe or scoldy about it.
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
NELC is a gem and they’re going to just throw it in the trash.
I’m now hearing that the administration is proposing reducing the division to eight departments and also toying with the idea of eliminating and outsourcing language instruction. A rumor is also going around that doctoral admissions will be cancelled for next year.
1/ NEW REPORT: Jewish students on elite US campuses are suddenly feeling much less free to express their views. At the same time, conservatives are feeling much freer. Why?
Oh dude I wrote that piece and I promise you that the point of Dialogues is to screen out kids who would’ve pitched tents on the quad.
BREAKING: American universities are now adopting a China-style social credit system for admissions. Not hyperbole—our universities have fully transformed into Marxist indoctrination centers.
The second most profound idea is that at the same time He also created tongs.
One of the most profound ideas of Judaism is that God created the world through language.
A $725,000 settlement brings closure to one of the more absurd attacks on academic freedom during the ideological upheaval of 2020. After a paper accused music theory of harboring "deep-seated whiteness," a University of North Texas professor and editor of a music theory journal…
He did nothing wrong here at all. This entire thing is so stupid it hurts.
NEW: After a campaign to dishonestly portray him as calling for Iran to strike a U.S. base, Georgetown professor Jonathan A. C. Brown has been removed as chair of his department, is currently on leave, and is now under an internal university review. The update came during…