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“Freedom’s just another word for Je est un autre.”
Touché. And given the present thread, Rimbaud may have arrived rather more punctually than either of us had any right…
Correction to my post: it should have read “when I went to her home last summer”.
I first met Gabriele Taylor when I was a graduate student in philosophy at St. Anne’s, studying for the B.Phil.…
Dear Roger of Invisible America, Your remarks towards the end of this comment about Nat Goldhaber (I’ve got a friend…
A remembered Dreyfus remark on the Maharishi: I recall hearing Dreyfus say in a recorded lecture, perhaps twenty-five years ago,…
I just published in the new PPA and can say it was one of the most difficult, rigorous R&R’s of…
This is dramatic, but seems sensible given the war of aggression by the U.S. against Iran. Information from faculty or students there is welcome (please use a real email address, but otherwise you may post anonymously). Are people leaving the country, merely staying off campus, or something else?
It’s a mix. I’m still in the UAE with my family, and we feel safe. But some students and faculty have left for the semester (since classes have moved online).
My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students cast out from the dormitories and the campus kept ticking over by a skeleton staff. The bulk of international faculty have left the country and are not expecting to return until the start of the Fall semester.
If anything, NYU’s closure is a little behind the timeline by comparison to many of the region’s international universities.
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