Claire Kahane in conversation with Carolyn Korsmeyer - 5/28/25 Join us at Hallwalls for an evening with author and critic Claire Kahane in conversation with novelist and philosopher Carolyn Korsmeyer discussing Kahane's new memoir Nine Lives: My Risky Road from F...

Professor Emerita Claire Kahane returns to Buffalo on May 28th to launch her memoir "Nine Lives: From Fifties Rebel to Feminist Critic." She'll be in conversation with philosopher Carolyn Korsmeyer at Hallwalls. Reception, 6:30pm, and event 7:30pm. Don't miss it! www.hallwalls.org/perflit/6659...

This is great. Thanks so much, Stephen. Hope you are well.

Does anyone know when birth times started to appear on US birth certificates? Both my parents have their exact time of birth on theirs from the early 1940s. I'm also wondering if there are regional variations.

State Department plan to deport ‘pro-Hamas’ students relies on a 1952 law that targeted Jews Jewish Holocaust survivors suspected of being Soviet sympathizers were subject to the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested that the U.S. intends to deport Khalil, who holds a green card and is in this country legally.

Relatedly, the State Department is applying AI to a McCarthy-era antisemitic law in order to cancel visas of foreign students who it determines to be “pro-Hamas.”

The 'culture wars' of William Bennett in the 1980s seem quaint by comparison. But then again, they are part of the same continuum. 2/2

I just read through SB 1 (the higher education destruction act) in Ohio and not only does it weaken unions, and destroy DEI, but it requires all faculty to post their syllabi publicly with their contact info. It's setting up faculty to be bullied and harassed. 1/2

To close our latest issue, Professor Jacqueline Rose asks what nineteenth-century literary writing, and especially Mary Shelley’s relatively unknown novel 'Valperga', can teach us about the crisis facing the humanities today.

Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...