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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Anthropologist David Graeber wrote about the rise of “bullshit jobs”—work sustained not by necessity or meaning but by institutional inertia. Universities now risk creating their academic twin: bullshit degrees. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Students openly swap jailbreak prompts to make ChatGPT sound dumber, insert typos, and train models on their own mediocre essays to “humanize” the output. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Calculators expanded reasoning; the printing press spread knowledge. ChatGPT, by contrast, doesn’t extend cognition—it automates it. Rather than democratizing learning, it privatizes the act of thinking under corporate control.
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Universities partner with AI companies; students use AI to cheat; schools panic about cheating and then partner with more AI companies to detect the cheating.

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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Students aren’t being taught to think more deeply but to prompt more effectively. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

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Washington’s Gallery of Puppets From Venezuela to Iran, the United States can always find ambitious would-be leaders willing to advocate regime change. But they don’t have their countries’ best interests in mind.

Today in Current Affairs, a look at Maria Corina Machado, who won the Nobel Peace Prize but wants a U.S. invasion of Venezuela, and Reza Pahlavi, the man who would be Shah of Iran. Dangerous people.

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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

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Of Course the Left Should Primary Hakeem Jeffries He’s a genuinely awful politician, and the arguments against a challenge don’t hold water.

To say that there’s no point in participating in elections unless you’re certain you’ll win is a liberal idea.

Historically, socialists have always taken a different stance: that even if you don’t win, election campaigns are valuable tools for organizing.

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Of Course the Left Should Primary Hakeem Jeffries He’s a genuinely awful politician, and the arguments against a challenge don’t hold water.

The only distinct advantage Hakeem Jeffries has is money and insider connections—and if those alone could decide elections, we’d probably have a President Mike Bloomberg and a Mayor Andrew Cuomo right now. Socialists lack confidence in their own abilities.
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Of Course the Left Should Primary Hakeem Jeffries He’s a genuinely awful politician, and the arguments against a challenge don’t hold water.

The assumption of Jeffries’ invulnerability gets even shakier when you consider that he isn’t good at his main job, which is leading an opposition party against Donald Trump; as a result, 62% of Democrats now want the party leadership to be replaced.
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Of Course the Left Should Primary Hakeem Jeffries He’s a genuinely awful politician, and the arguments against a challenge don’t hold water.

Hakeem Jeffries has the political instincts of a moldy sponge.

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Of Course the Left Should Primary Hakeem Jeffries He’s a genuinely awful politician, and the arguments against a challenge don’t hold water.

At every turn, Hakeem Jeffries has faced the horror of the second Trump administration with a shrug.

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Of Course the Left Should Primary Hakeem Jeffries He’s a genuinely awful politician, and the arguments against a challenge don’t hold water.

At this point, even the most milquetoast liberals understand that Hakeem Jeffries isn’t fit to lead a bowling team, let alone the congressional Democratic Party. www.currentaffairs.org/news/of-cour...

Of Course the Left Should Primary Hakeem Jeffries He’s a genuinely awful politician, and the arguments against a challenge don’t hold water.

You can make an argument that Chi Ossé isn’t the right candidate, and you can make an argument that it doesn’t make sense for Mamdani to back a challenger at this stage.

But to say that Jeffries shouldn’t face a challenge at all is deeply misguided.

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Of Course the Left Should Primary Hakeem Jeffries He’s a genuinely awful politician, and the arguments against a challenge don’t hold water.

Jeffries is a genuinely horrible House minority leader. He’s weak against the Trump administration, unreliable on key issues like labor, and bloodstained by his support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. www.currentaffairs.org/news/of-cour...

Of Course the Left Should Primary Hakeem Jeffries He’s a genuinely awful politician, and the arguments against a challenge don’t hold water.

Hakeem Jeffries is a genuinely awful politician, and the arguments against a primary challenge don’t hold water.

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A Dark Money Network is Recruiting U.S. Mayors to Criminalize Pro-Palestine Speech Right-wing mega-donors are flying mayors to an all-expenses-paid summit in New Orleans, where they’ll push a policy framework that codifies mainstream criticism of Israel as “antisemitic.”

In New Orleans, Eric Adams is set to receive the "Medal of Mayoral Honor" for his “exceptional leadership in the fight against antisemitism."

The group honoring him is promoting a policy framework that treats mainstream criticism of Israel as hate speech.
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A Dark Money Network is Recruiting U.S. Mayors to Criminalize Pro-Palestine Speech Right-wing mega-donors are flying mayors to an all-expenses-paid summit in New Orleans, where they’ll push a policy framework that codifies mainstream criticism of Israel as “antisemitic.”

A dark-money network is flying U.S. mayors to an all-expenses-paid summit in New Orleans to push policies that classify mainstream criticism of Israel as “antisemitic.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/a-dark-...