Andrew Jason Cohen

My latest. We should be discussing creative destruction. It explains both polarization and the rise of socialist tendencies.
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A little optimism for your morning!
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My latest at PSL, on marketing academia and HxA: prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/fixing-aca...

Of course, you don't need another response to Charlie Kirk's assassination. This is a bit more than that. A tie in to my work on civil discourse. My newest at PSL:
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Axios: Commerce Secr H. Lutnick says the gov wants a cut of revenue generated by patents universities developed w/fed funds. I’ve said this for years. Do it & stop the idiotic attacks on academia—including disruptions in promised funds (then scale back in orderly fashion w/out violating promises).

A new piece at PSL expressing my current concerns despite my general recent optimism and suggesting what is needed.
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Trying a different style of writing. Here's a story with a point about what government can do.
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The bill Trump signed last week is extremely worrisome for alot of reasons, but I think I am most worried about the tremendous funding increase for ICE. So I wrote this:
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It's been a while since I've posted. I'll likely do better going forward, but today's post is simple: we should be talking alot more about the nationalization of the steel industry, especially in a time of war.
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Higher Ed Must Recommit to Its Enlightenment Roots (opinion) Universities’ own mistakes helped pave the way for government attacks on academic freedom, Emily Chamlee-Wright writes.

“we must own our mistakes. If we are to refortify the liberal foundations of American higher education, we must proactively name the failures that have contributed to a permission structure that now accommodates illiberal and authoritarian reactionary forces.”
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Academic Activism as an Effect of Digital Media The social media forces of virality have irrevocably changed the nature of academia

Social media speeds discourse. Academic publishing has sped along with it. In some cases, they’ve fused. (Eg, many academics advertise their pubs on social media.) The quality of both have changed. Does that explain the rise of academic activism?

www.discoursemagazine.com/p/academic-a...

Let's Start with Adaptive Art!, a project from Ms. Cohen Help me give my students some fundamental art supplies that will foster their creative development and artistic growth. My students are exceptional in every sense of the word. They come from divers...

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New on PSL. Taking "political identity" too seriously is a mistake.
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The Politics of Fear, Part Deux Sometimes there *is* a monster under your bed.

Lauren is right: some fears are reasonable, but we have to be careful with that fear anyway.
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US Citizens Don’t Have First Amendment Rights If Noncitizens Don’t Controlling noncitizens' speech involves controlling US citizens' speech.

Putting this out there. It’s right.
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The Time of Monsters On Institutional Erosion, Normalcy Bias, and the Conditions That Precede Catastrophe

This seems worrisomely right.
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New post up at PSL, about both the telos of university and the main problem of recent students, beginning with when that telos was ignored. prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/the-telos-...

What the internet tells us about human nature It's not exactly what you think.

Another great piece from Lauren Hall. Remember: we are all both good and bad; its easy to fall into negative thinking, but there are steps we can take to prevent it. radicalmoderatesguide.substack.com/p/what-the-i...

The Necessary Virtue of Not Being an Asshole No matter what you tell yourself, you can't be a moral person if you're an asshole.

www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/the-necess...

Fight Now, Hope Always Even as we fight back against illiberalism, we must always be examples of what makes liberalism worth fighting for.

Two great posts from Aaron Ross Powell. One on what we need to be doing given the current administration, the other (first comment) on not being an asshole. While you should stand up for yourself and justice, you should do so civilly.
www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/what-can-e...

Libertarianism's Democracy Problem Anti-democracy is the theory that the elites know what we want, and are going to give it to us good and hard

An excellent piece by Matt Zwolinski indicating the perils, from a libertarian perspective, of dismantling democratic institutions without care.

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Hi Folks: Please spread the word. Anyone interested in learning or thinking more about how the political and economic world works and should work can obviously gain from our PPE Master's Program at GSU! Applications for the Fall due April 30.

This started as a condemnation of recent federal government violations of free speech law, but became something better. A moderate's discussion of why free speech matters on campus and reasons to return to what college was historically.
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Uncomfortably Ruing the Potential End of NATO If not us, who?

In 1989-90, I thought NATO should end. I was, I now see, wrong. James Hanley explains why.

jameshanley.substack.com/p/uncomforta...

The Horseshoe Politics of Higher Education Illiberal ideologues, both left and right, need to do better.

For those interested in the state of Higher Ed, this is very good.

For those interested in the state of Higher Ed, this is very good.
thedispatch.com/article/high...

Non Zero Questions Get Non Zero Answers Asking the right questions for a better world.

Another great post from Lauren over at Radical Moderate's Guide to Life. This is why PPE is so important. We want/try to be analytically rigorous, but face the facts of the real world and try to get a conclusion that works for everyone.

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Moral Responsibility for Backlash Is it a thing? Should it be?

This is unsurprisingly good (Heath is always excellent). We need to think carefully about the sorts of backlash our actions (especially speech by academics) are likely to cause. (Have caused!)

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How To Fix DEI The current system is broken. Here’s what truly inclusive institutions would look like.

Nicely said, Dale Miller.
On intellectual diversity in university hiring.

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When Intent Stops Mattering - A Political Parable Imagine a town that sits along a winding river.

This is an excellent piece to understand what has happened in the US over the last 10 years. Bravo to Ilana Redstone.

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Chaos Is Neither Conservatism Nor Governance Musings on the GOP, institutions, and change management as Trump 2.0 kicks off

Another great piece over at The Radical Moderate’s Guide, this time explaining how creating chaos is not anything true conservatives would endorse and is, instead, hugely problematic.

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