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Richard Moran

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teaching Philosophy at Harvard University www.richard-moran.com

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Richard Moran @ramoran.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Well this didn't take long. The chancellors who commissioned the Boghossian report (Martin and Diermeier, along with others) are publicly teaming up with the Trump administration to violate academic freedom and faculty autonomy, prominently citing the report in support of their campaign.
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The Trump collaborators: Michael Crow (Arizona State), Ron Daniels (Johns Hopkins), Douglas Girod (Kansas), Andrew Martin (Wash U/St. Louis)
These four university President have participated in drafting a new “call to action” from Linda McMahon, the former wrestling executive turned Secretary of Education, to the nation&#821…
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Richard Moran @ramoran.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I wrote something on the Boghossian report on the humanities: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Wrong Way to Criticize the Humanities
A recent report, commissioned by the chancellors of Vanderbilt and Washington University, invites further intrusions on scholarly self-governance.
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Richard Moran @ramoran.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Richard Moran @ramoran.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Much noise that political philosophy not equipped for realities of oligarchic rule (too utopian, aspirational etc). But don't forget (cf Tocqueville) that bones of liberal and republican thought were all sketched out under Ancien Regime conditions. All seemed hopelessly utopian until they weren't
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Richard Moran @ramoran.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Around the neighborhood this morning.
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Richard Moran @ramoran.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"Obey in advance" is now official Harvard policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
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Opinion | Harvard Has Already Capitulated to Trump’s War on Academia
The administration is trying to assert political control over American higher education.
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Richard Moran @ramoran.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
A Harvard undergraduate outlines some of the things wrong with the recent speech codes imposed on the University. That campus-wide speech codes could be imposed as part of settling a civil lawsuit is outrageous enough. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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All It Takes To Censor Speech at Harvard Is a Lawsuit | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Most worryingly, with this move, Harvard has signaled that upset constituents — and outside groups backing them — can bring thinly-supported, mostly-anonymous legal complaints against the University t...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
College freshmen saying "from the river to the sea" is an existential threat to Jewish people. America's shadow president giving Nazi salutes at a rally is not. by Bret Stephens and Bill Ackman
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Rachel Vindman @natsechobbyist.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Whatever happens to my family, know this: No pardons were offered or discussed. I cannot begin to describe the level of betrayal and hurt I feel.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
big victory for Indigenous activists
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Dr. King saw that Du Bois “did not content himself with hurling invectives for emotional release & then retire into smug, passive satisfaction.” “It is not enough for people to be angry,” he argued; “the supreme task is to organize & unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.”
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MLK Now - Boston Review
Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.
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Richard Moran @ramoran.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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