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Wow. Any private or state school with money for hiring is going to be looking hard at the U of C system for talent next year if this goes through.
UPDATE: A more upbeat assessment from Berkeley's Dean Edley, though he does not address the impending salary cut.
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii