Wars on Science, Real and Otherwise The War on Science, ed. Lawrence Krauss, documents an imaginary "war on science" from the left in order to justify an entirely real war on science from the right.

"The attempted murderer was an ex-student of the university. During the police interview following his attempted murder, he told the officer he ‘just wanted to protect the freedom of academia’; during the trial, he said universities were ‘forcing ideology’ on people—the ideology of ‘gender’."

Have you pitched this to Lloyd Webber?

But be careful what you wish for and all that. For the obvious and proximal reason.

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A new room for a doomed loom – and the battle to save Australia’s slowly dying crafts When a rare weaving device was destined for the skip, a collective of artists, teachers and students united to rescue it. They bemoan how university course changes are replacing deep skills with compe...

When RMIT decided to junk a rare, $160k weaving loom, a group of artists, teachers and students united to rescue it. The story of this loom felt like a snapshot of everything that’s wrong with how we treat arts and crafts in tertiary education, so I wrote this:

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