Rick Halpern

I've also deleted my academia-dot-edu account. Find all my papers as free PDFs (and apparently a zoomed in picture of my mug) at www.calebward.xyz

Please spread the word to your colleagues about the academia scam, also those who are not as online as we are.

Kafka-land at UC Berkeley The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Nothing at Fox is fireable

It's 11 September again, and let's not forget that other world historic event that shaped the late 20th century and the early 21st. Remember, another world is possible -- that is a vital thought for these times.

Opinion | ‘Profound and Abiding Rage’: Canada’s Answer to America’s Abandonment

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...

Ballston Beach, again

The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...

www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

Storm Clouds Over Ballston

Longnook at its sublime best this morning!

Columbia University Settlement an Unprecedented Disaster Never in the history of our nation has a university so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. All who care about higher education must stand up and fight back against this unprecedented continuin...

"The Columbia University Board of Trustees’ concessions to the Trump administration are a disaster . . . . Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat."

National AAUP Statement on Columbia

www.aaup.org/news/columbi...

Bret Stephens’s Recent Attack on the “Genocide” Charge Is Both Stupid and Immoral Thursday, July 24, 2025 Last week the New York Times published a powerful op-ed by Omer Bartov, the distinguished scholar of the Holocaust, entitled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It…

jeffreycisaacdesign.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/b... Bret Stephens’s Recent Attack on the “Genocide” Charge Is Both Stupid and Immoral – Democracy in Dark Times

balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...

My view today. Not a bad midsummer post

Editorial | Penn descends into fascism The Daily Pennsylvanian Summer Editorial Board argues that Penn’s concessions to the Trump administration set a dangerous precedent for academic freedom.

www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Why bike lanes should remain on Ontario’s roads Efforts to remove bike lanes in Toronto could result in more injuries and make transportation more challenging for people.

Among the many benefits of bike lines: fewer accidents, effective mobility, more cycling, boosted transportation equity for those without cars. From the York U team Mahtot Gebresselassie, Joanna Silva, and Steven Lum. theconversation.com/why-bike-lan...

Sly Stone, Family Stone Architect Who Fused Funk, Rock, and Soul, Dead at 82 Sly Stone, the wildly inventive musician and head of Sly & the Family Stone who fused rock, funk and soul, has died at age 82.

Truly one of a kind. Sly's music lives on!

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

This is really, really bad. They shouldn't be deploying the Marines, and doing so without clear orders is incomprehensible.

they want to turn LA into 1972 Derry, Portland into 1956 Algiers, and New York into 1989 Beijing

Today’s NYT euphemism for “lied,” in South Africa story, is “made debunked claims.”

Patrick Gaspard was the U.S. ambassador to South Africa from 2013 to 2016. 🇺🇸 🇿🇦

Union Square
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Walking the Dog
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Butcher, Muslim Quarter, Xi’an
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@streetportrait

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Streetcar Series

Disappearing an elected official.

Car wash
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The Library of Congress is a research library.

The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress.

Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research.

NO children’s section.

Even the general public has very limited access.

Crosswalk
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