Eric Klinenberg
@ericklinenberg.bsky.social
Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.*
America’s great research universities were not invented in Silicon Valley garages or cooked up by venture capitalists. For centuries, they’ve been built by scholars, bolstered by benefactors, and scaled up by the state.
The government is now trying to destroy them. The damage will be profound.
The government is now trying to destroy them. The damage will be profound.
March 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
America’s great research universities were not invented in Silicon Valley garages or cooked up by venture capitalists. For centuries, they’ve been built by scholars, bolstered by benefactors, and scaled up by the state.
The government is now trying to destroy them. The damage will be profound.
The government is now trying to destroy them. The damage will be profound.
What if - and hear me out on this - algorithms are a way of suppressing voices and ideas that oligarchs don't like?
March 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
What if - and hear me out on this - algorithms are a way of suppressing voices and ideas that oligarchs don't like?
It would be laughable...except that this paranoid fantasy is now the official White House take on higher ed, being weaponized to destroy research universities across the US.
March 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It would be laughable...except that this paranoid fantasy is now the official White House take on higher ed, being weaponized to destroy research universities across the US.