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"Northwestern’s nonexistent response to recent Qatari censorship demonstrates why branch campuses in authoritarian nations are a bad idea. Northwestern has lent its credibility to the propaganda of an authoritarian and anti-Western regime, whitewashing its censorship and inevitably participating in self-censorship to maintain ties.... As long as the Medill School of Journalism continues to work with Qatar, its commitment to 'fight for the freedom of the press' will remain hollow."
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Well at least NU got rid of that anti American, Woke, pompous Shapiro. Maybe the new administration can turn things around– but this isn’t a very good sign is it?
Northwestern has become an embarrassment to Chicago and IL, not that we needed any more.
I can’t imagine spending Northwestern money on a major in Journalism. What a downer it must be to get into a prestigious school only to take up a garbage major.
It’s like finding out your daughter brings home her doctor boyfriend for the first time, and when you ask him what specialty, he answers “sociology”.
To see this in what’s supposedly a top journalism school is particularly nauseating.
Yep, Mr. Fain had a similar experience.