This is neat-o!

“We’re back with the #books, in silent rooms, where the world is made of words, like so many before us — and I can’t stop wondering why,” writes Mia Rose Kohn, a #cartoonist, #journalist and junior studying at #Yale University.

In this first installment of a #graphic column for the #Forward, she draws from the great works of the #Jewish #Enlightenment to theorists of the modern era, as she asks herself — and us — “If #education is a Jewish value, what does Jewish thought have to say about why we’re here?”

https://forward.com/opinion/797457/a-yale-student-returns-to-class-with-a-jewish-question-and-answer-about-why-shes-there/

This is neat-o!

“We’re back with the #books, in silent rooms, where the world is made of words, like so many before us — and I can’t stop wondering why,” writes Mia Rose Kohn, a #cartoonist, #journalist and junior studying at #Yale University.

In this first installment of a #graphic column for the #Forward, she draws from the great works of the #Jewish #Enlightenment to theorists of the modern era, as she asks herself — and us — “If #education is a Jewish value, what does Jewish thought have to say about why we’re here?”

https://forward.com/opinion/797457/a-yale-student-returns-to-class-with-a-jewish-question-and-answer-about-why-shes-there/

"To be neutral is to have a political position." -- Raoul Peck

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/08/at-yale-university-things-are-getting-orwellian/

#USPol
#Yale
#Orwell

"To be neutral is to have a political position." -- Raoul Peck

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/08/at-yale-university-things-are-getting-orwellian/

#USPol
#Yale
#Orwell

"I couldn't even imagine health care without plastics, and I don't even think we should go there. I would argue that plastic has allowed very important innovation of medical devices and supplies, and is here to stay."

#DrJodiSherman, Founding Director, Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/the-165-year-reign-of-oil-is-coming-to-an-end-but-will-we-ever-be-able-to-live-without-it

Head in the sand, much? How will you get plastic, without the fossil fuel industry spitting it out as byproduct?

#healthcare #plastic#Yale #sustainability

Update. "Faculty Letter to #Yale University Administration"
https://sites.google.com/view/yalefacultyletter2025/home

"We stand together at a crossroads. American universities are facing extraordinary attacks that threaten the bedrock principles of a democratic society, including rights of free expression, association, and academic freedom. We write as one faculty, to ask you to stand with us now. We urge you to: …Resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance…Protect science and other research at Yale from funding cutoffs… Defend the rights to free speech on campus…Work purposefully and proactively with other colleges and universities in collective defense."

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #DefendResearch #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

The threat to #academics' livelihoods at universities including #Yale, #Columbia & #JohnsHopkins has given #Europe's political leaders hope they could reap an #intellectual windfall.

A letter, reviewed by Reuters, signed in March by 13 European countries including #France, #Germany & #Spain, urged the #EU Commission to move fast to attract #academic talent.

#Trump #BrainDrain #law #academia #AntiIntellectualism #science #research #censorship #MafiaState #Nazis