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NEW at Pacific Standard: On Monday, Dean Moneta went into a campus coffee shop for tea and a vegan muffin, was offended by the lyrics of a rap song that came up on the shop’s Spotify playlist, and promptly had the two employees on duty fired. In this case—as in other recent cases where professors …
Around the country, the Koch Brothers are donating to universities to create right-wing-only counter institutions within more open institutions, creating precisely the kind of ideological bubble they claim to deplore. Here’s the latest from Arizona State University. I served as the director of the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University …