Jeffrey Sachs

@JeffreyASachs

Lecturer at Acadia University. Judicial politics, authoritarianism, Islamic law. Specializing in Sudan/Egypt. Occasionally free speech on campus issues as well.

Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Joined June 2014
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    26 Aug 2020

    “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.

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  4. 3 hours ago

    Now apply that same reasoning to the Emory Law Review.

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  5. 3 hours ago

    Here's a simple test. In 2018, the UCLA College Bruins disinvited Milo after the importuning of their conservative faculty advisor. Was this a disinvitation? Was it a violation of their or Milo's academic freedom? If not, why?

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  6. 3 hours ago

    Yes, precisely. How is this concept so difficult to grasp? Now, it's different if there's some external pressure *forcing* the editors to drop the article. That's a clear violation of their academic freedom. But absent that, it is (at worst) an issue of viewpoint diversity.

    Academic freedom means that it is very, very hard for schools to fire professors that take vile positions. Fine. But it does not mean that student editors—or anyone else for that matter—have any obligation to spread your message.
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  7. 6 hours ago

    Am I mistaken, or is there a sudden and major (and well-deserved) burst of renewed interest in Sebald? If so, why now?

    ‘There were two major silences for Sebald: about the Holocaust and about the Allied bombings of German cities, both examples of the human appetite for the destruction of others. Of course we don’t call this an appetite but that is part of the silence.’
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    6 hours ago

    Lots of teachers unsure how to teach about Jan 6 this week, afraid lessons could incur wrath of legislators, parents if not taught with enough faux bothsidesism. Educational gag orders are undermining both public education and democracy:

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  10. 7 hours ago

    Well this is alarming. I don't trust this government or Board to appoint anyone who takes academic freedom seriously.

    In his eighth year of leading the University of Florida, announces that this will be his last year as president. During his tenure, Florida joined the ranks of the nation’s top public universities.
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    7 hours ago

    1. Parents should have a say in their kids’ education. But the “parent empowerment” movement is less about parental involvement and more about imposing cultural conservatism on every aspect of public education

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    19 hours ago

    What kind of shenanigans are right-wing Republican state lawmakers planning for the upcoming legislative sessions? Well, I'm glad you asked, because... They've introduce bills ban the teaching of CRT, criminalize BLM protesters, ban vaccine mandates, ban abortion... (thread)

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  13. 17 hours ago

    After watching the video and reading the article below, be sure to view this as well.

    Truly incredible, watch this - here's the story -
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    18 hours ago

    Scholars of different races & genders study different topics & there are between- and within-topic citation disadvantages for scholarly minority groups News article: Paper:

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    19 hours ago

    School districts allocating new tax revenue amidst collective bargaining negotiations increase teacher salaries & benefits & experience no student achievement gains. Districts facing less pressure hire more teachers & realize student achievement gains

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  16. 22 hours ago

    Some of his closest friends want him dead?

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  17. Jan 4

    Between the Emory Law Review paper, those Philosophia articles, and Amy Wax waxing racist, 2022 is really bringing the bigots out of the academic woodwork.

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  18. Jan 4

    I'll have to thread together some choice turns of phrase. Every chapter has at least one that sets me on my heels.

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  19. Jan 4

    This just happened to me. I've been working my way through all sorts of old Penguin classics and some of them are just shockingly good. To say "Balzac is a great writer" is about as obvious a claim as one can make, but Cousin Bette is currently in the process of blowing me away.

    Living in a small apartment really puts to the test the idea that there aren't great books. Every year I find myself getting rid of the will-o-the-wisps of academic fads and journalistic or literary market hype in order to make room for books that I want, one day, to re-read.
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    Jan 3

    CBC has a race issue, but not the one that's being talked about. Or else they wouldn't have fired/disciplined me. The exodus at CBC over the past two years has been fuelled by BIPOC folks feeling uncomfortable, not some crusader free-thinker types exiting.

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    Jan 4

    I feel pretty confident that the Emory Law Journal editors made the correct decision to not publish this.

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