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Andy Carr
@andycarr.bsky.social
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he/him | 🏳️🌈 nerd | mid selfies studying US law & politics: LPE, bureaucracy, reactionary movements | union stuff @ The New School, roaming adjunct elsewhere opinions mine, mostly bad site: andyjcarr.com SSRN: ssrn.com/author=3069305
![the most tedious shit imaginable, a reply that reads:
‘“At worst it [the New School] walked away from its own legacy.” You just figured that out? The New School walked away from its own legacy somewhere around 1998.’](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6at22g2u3ynajfnqfmzd2uqz/bafkreiflnkcjo7c672tolu5swtsms4h4hdf772qvz3lcbndcjnyo4awbtm)
![screenshot of the title/byline for the piece:
DISSENT Magazine
What's Left of The New School?
Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what's happening to the school is an increasingly common story across all of higher education.
[By] Jeremy Varon – August 27, 2026](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6at22g2u3ynajfnqfmzd2uqz/bafkreic6tgakoirdt44ddo6tiohxhk3r46yvcrhpthh2dzmyz7qw2s2qd4)
![screenshot of a paragraph from the linked essay:
"The opportunity costs [of universities privileging fiscal austerity and stockpiling over taking any risks vis-a-vis pushing back against authoritarianism] are enormous. The New School spent a whole year figuring out how to fire its own faculty, tying up activist energies on campus. During that time, it made no statement nor sponsored any dialogue about how the institution might meet the current authoritarian threat. Instead, it took a page from DOGE, echoing the power grabs, pettiness, and disdain for workers that are part of that threat. At best, it confused the question of whether the New School has any role to play in the defense of democracy. At worst, it walked away from its own legacy. Few recent times have been darker than these. May those still committed to the best of the New School turn its light back on."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6at22g2u3ynajfnqfmzd2uqz/bafkreifpw7lb32n6xbmcwqflfbe5ga3rqivitcrpweody7qci4sjffu2j4)
![screenshot of the quoted and linked video, showing a YouTube video still frame. on the left, a lawyer is standing facing the bench; beneath him, there's a small label that reads "New Mexico Courts." on the right is a panel of judges, one of whom is speaking. her words are picked up by the closed captioning on YouTube. she's asking the attorney—regarding his use of ChatGPT—the following:
"[Do] you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world b..."
though cut off, the last question finishes as follows: "...because the problem with lawyers relying on AI with hallucinations is an above-the-fold story, every single day?"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6at22g2u3ynajfnqfmzd2uqz/bafkreiaetrwkfosrsmh3y32ij7dentzy3qnxvygxpyec62t7ed4em6i6v4)
![quoted text screenshot from a certain Substack interview with a certain tech reporter, which reads as follows:
"...I've been asking readers when they cancel [subscriptions to my newsletter] to tell me why, and a lof of them are canceling because they just use AI to get their information now instead. That's been quite devastasting..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6at22g2u3ynajfnqfmzd2uqz/bafkreihly5byisn2oandpcu3477bspyhxidlyzbnim4tixoiibpok324bm)
![screenshot of a bullet point from an email, which reads as follows:
"The [New School student workers' union] bargaining committee asked if one of our fellow students would have to be kidnapped or deported by ICE for the University to commit to codifying improved international student protections, to which University representatives simply responded 'Yes.'"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6at22g2u3ynajfnqfmzd2uqz/bafkreiej3tw42mzi7u6ixgv7bhaqqv3uluvuko7oujnnru6ysdnabbo5ma)
!["In 1853 he was appointed by President Pierce District Judge for this district, which office he held until the breaking out of the [Civil] war. When the war was over he resumed his practice at the bar, and continued in it until impaired health drove him into retirement, where he lingered until his death."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6at22g2u3ynajfnqfmzd2uqz/bafkreiackgnfvwv5hzjutzmcr5bjpsgh2i4d3isbvfkcnc2hzeyeeomeay)
![A bit further down, former Governor Brown continues:
"Judge Humphreys was a man of more than ordinary merit. He was one of those self-made men, who are apt to be the most efficient and useful. In his early manhood he settled in [West Tennessee], where his success was speedy and brilliant . . . [Brown then goes on at great length, adding detail about his contributions to a very early State of Tennessee]
In 1853 he was appointed by President Pierce District Judge for this district, which office he held until the breaking out of the [Civil] war. When the war was over he resumed his practice at the bar, and continued in it until impaired health drove him into retirement, where he lingered until his death."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6at22g2u3ynajfnqfmzd2uqz/bafkreihaanvd3wsby4ikpklqand3sxqtvoxfx2woldtiz63qc63hv32wai)
!["Upon taking the chair Judge [Frank T.] Reid said: Some years since Judge Humphreys occupied an office [just opposite] my father's office, and there every day or so, for several years, I met him and heard him converse. What I know of him is mainly due to those meetings. There is something pathetic and very touching in calling before me his appearance on those occasions. His dress was homely and clean...His conversation was that of a pure-hearted, genuine, true man...[When] one of our number dies of whom it can be truthfully said, 'Here was a true man, a modest, loyal-hearted gentleman, one who never attempted to wrest an unrighteous verdict or judgment...' in such case I can see the good to accrue, at least to the younger members of the profession, in holding up such a character as an example for emulation."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6at22g2u3ynajfnqfmzd2uqz/bafkreicxz3hgdnvvnnytxjxwd6k7ijoe6xxhow7hmluf3fqtymt3mxy2cm)
![the opening of the article, which surveys a variety of transcribed statements of prominent Nashville-area lawyers, jurists, and politicians, offering reflections on West Humphreys; it reads:
"A very full and large meeting of the members of the Nashville Bar was held in the Circuit Court room, yesterday morning [October 18], the object of the meeting being to take appropriate action in regard to the death of Judge W. H. Humphreys."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6at22g2u3ynajfnqfmzd2uqz/bafkreice3k2m56knm2c3vd3okzorvzh5md7bf6fxgtras4qzpb6cnvnapq)
![job listing for the director of one of the "civic centers" referenced in the quoted post – this one at the University of Iowa, but hired and managed solely by the Regents, not any department at the University.
the listing reads in part:
"Required Qualifications
1. Academic record sufficient for tenure at the rank of full professor [at Iowa].
2. [highlighted in the text because I found the breadth of the required academic expertise kind of hilarious] Research expertise in at least one of the Center's core disciplines (classics, economics, history, law, philosophy, political thought, or quantitative political science), combined with a demonstrated ability to engage with academic literature across all of these fields.
...
Compensation
This position is assigned to a Board of Regents Office paygrade 6, with an anticipated slary range of $200,000 to $450,000 commensurate with experience."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6at22g2u3ynajfnqfmzd2uqz/bafkreic7veh3zbin672dpvn32pfckjfycxq6yiqkgo6p2gxxahijszhztu)
![screenshot from an email notification sent around my department just a bit ago, the first line of which reads as follows:
"Please note, there is currently no [air conditioning in our department] and no clear indication from Facilities Management as to when it will be fixed."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6at22g2u3ynajfnqfmzd2uqz/bafkreie5ev27t2v3xrdyjgrekos3y46bpzjvaz2s5oam23pnfyesvwrl6a)
