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Uninformed opinionators part 1: On the spurious arguments of Bill Ackman and others
By Yvette Hacks Ultracrepidarian – “Someone who has no special knowledge of a subject but who expresses an opinion about it.” That’s my word of the day, a word that I learned recently for people who, up to this point, I had referred to as “uninformed opinionators” or more formally epistemic trespassers. In particular, I…
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‘Say It Ain’t Divisive!’: How to Stifle the Work of Faculty Unions
By Honor Brabazon and Vincent Wong The article ‘Constitutional boundaries of faculty associations: The political line in the sand’, published in the Commentary section of the September–October 2025 CAUT Bulletin, is the latest in a series of attempts to stifle democratic debate and political engagement in Canadian faculty associations. The commentary appears to have been precipitated…
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DEI, CRT and antisemitism
By Yvette Hacks As we pass through further rounds of campus leader hearing theatre in the US, I want to reflect on an argument that has increasingly been trotted out, linking free speech, antisemitism and DEI (and/or Critical Race Theory) on college campuses, which seems to generate a general lack of trust in university administrations…