Reposted by Annie McClanahan
We have been laying off staff. Berkeley is hiring 72 tenure-line faculty this year. UCLA is hiring 8. The chancellor has announced two new vice-chancellor direct reports for himself. We are told there is no money. Class sizes have been doubled.
dailybruin.com
UCLA will hire more Student Affairs staff to enforce Time, Place and Manner policies - Daily Bruin
UCLA will add full-time positions to its Student Affairs Mitigation Program to support the university’s response to protests and other demonstrations, UCLA Student Affairs said. The new positions incl...
![The timing is also curious, coinciding with the publication of my new book, "What Happened to Liberal Democracy?" The book explores aspects of liberal philosophy, the origins of liberal democracy's past successes, its current crisis, and what kind of new governing philosophy could re-energise liberalism. The Economist's review of the book, published at the same time as the article, is dismissive and declares that it
"grapple[s] with the question of how AI will shape the future" ("Man's best frenemy", August 17th). In fact, only half a chapter is about Al and democracy. It is hard not to interpret this as a strategic framing, intended to obfuscate the message of my book and bring it to The Economist's favourite topic of defending and boosting Al
If this is the best you can do with a body of work spanning 33 years, then it is your critique that is "oddly unconvincing."
DARON ACEMOGLU
Institute professor
Department of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tb2bwzxom5qv4542ru3zqcgu/bafkreiexoil22cbhpfb3r54hjxfsp7x5txid42tzc4lj64dzp7wc72742i)
