Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Evan Goldstein and Len Gutkin’s Atlantic job interview with Tyler Austin Harper. That was a good one. 030
Reposted by Scott MacEachernRich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks. 60576662287
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026In most cases in the United States, the compounding pharmacies that make up execution drugs do their absolute damnedest to keep their involvement a secret. 050
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026On the @chronicle.com website today, the following editorials follow one other: ‘Anthropology has a truth problem’ ‘The social sciences have a politics problem’ ‘The humanities need to do more to reach non-majors’ Thank God the STEM fields are perfected, so CHE doesn’t have to cover them 010
Reposted by Scott MacEachernKate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 531870617
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Out of curiosity, do you or anyone at the Chronicle know anything about anthropology, especially about the relationship between evolutionary anthropology and cultural anthropology? Do you know how absolutely predictable this article was? 011
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The comfort zone of the Chronicle now is talking to presidents at elite universities about their plans to rationalize higher education… unimportant issues like academic freedom and politically-motivated attacks on faculty really don’t engage the Chronicle’s editors. 0223
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026But no surprise that it received a deferential interview in the Chronicle, nor that it was immediately accompanied by a @lengutkin.bsky.social editorial attacking (cultural) anthropology. The discipline is everything that CHE dislikes now… too ‘woke’, too diverse, too potentially political. 170
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The themes of Joseph Heinrich‘s report are old evolutionary anthro grievance stories (“Let’s hear it for Derek Freeman!!”) and conversations with a number of anonymous colleagues, all of whom conveniently agreed with him. He seems to have avoided talking to anyone who might have disagreed. 2120
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Interesting interview. Like him or dislike him, Carney is on top of a lot of things. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/w...nytimes.comA Transcript From The Times Interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney of CanadaNew York Times journalists pressed the Canadian prime minister about a range of topics in an hourlong interview last week. Here’s a transcript of their conversation. 000
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026THE spiked to article after threat of a lawsuit… which is bad, but hardly unique in the UK. And what about O’Reilly’s case? Why do outlets like The Spectator have such little interest in that Cambridge academic? 000
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Arday was certainly hired at Cambridge because of his story, but do you think it was that that led to the unhinged media coverage of his case - by outlets like The Spectator that have a history of racial hostility? 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026(Shrug) So call me bourgeois… in societies where race is a foundational organizing principle, processes like that are fairly obviously in play. 000
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is a particularly British enquiry: I don’t know of any other country that has investigated the targeting of left-wing groups like this. But my assumption is that the security services in every Western country did this, so that there is a long list of similar atrocities waiting to be found.theguardian.comUndercover police officer lied to spycops inquiry about sexual relationshipOfficer forced to admit relationship with woman lasting at least six months while working under fake name Dave Evans 000
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In a stirring statement on academic freedom, Lonsdale said that “… all staff and faculty of UATX must subscribe to the four principles of anti-communism, anti-socialism, identity politics, and anti-Islamism…” He also, if I remember correctly, at one point said that Communists should be blown up. 000
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Why do you think a case like this gets so much less attention than Arday’s case? Because Arday is a Black man, correct? bsky.app/profile/katj... 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Definitely should’ve included that, yes! 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026… that a Black plagiarist discredits all Black intellectuals, in a way that simply does not hold for White writers. And this also allows racists to disproportionately reduce Black representation: the first Black president at Harvard, one of few Black professors at Cambridge. 200
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As someone who works with academic integrity structures pretty constantly, let me tell you… there’s a lot of plagiarism around. The question is, what happens when plagiarism is detected? Because of very deeply embedded Western racist history, there’s an assumption … 1/2 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026My read is that there are a set of systems in place that encourage and support attempts to exclude Black intellectuals from Western public life - thus systemic. And pretty much by definition, systematic too. Racists like Cofnas and Harris don’t crawl out from under their rocks and do this randomly. 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Possibly… my apologies. ‘This’ referred to a racist targeting of Black writers and intellectuals, in a systematic attempt to make the professional lives of all Black people suspect. 100
Reposted by Scott MacEachernSamantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 23/09/2026So I think maybe I just figured out why @timeshighered.bsky.social has not reported anything negative about James Orr. I could very well be wrong, but here we go: In 2024, THE signed an agreement with Hungary's Culture and Innovation Ministry which oversees Hungarian higher education.. 28054
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026How many specifically black authors would it take to accept that this is a systemic issue? 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026You can also think about this in the opposite direction: who is specifically targeting Black people through forms of scrutiny that are not directed at White people, and what are the reasons for doing that? Cf Jason Arday and James Orr, two Cambridge faculty. Who gets the attention? 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Well, to some degree, but catastrophically… www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.caIndependent agency probing CSIS after claim that operative smuggled teenage girls into Syria | CBC NewsAn independent government agency is reviewing how Canada's spy agency handles human sources after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised in August to follow up on claims that a CSIS operative smuggled... 000
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Not sure how prevalent this is, but in the rural Atlantic Canada communities I grew up in, there is always a bedroom on the ground floor for older family members to die in. Because those stairs will kill you. It’s also weird inheriting that bedroom after a grandparent has died. 010
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You are precisely attempting to exonerate Israel. And using a very old colonial trope to do it… that the benighted aboriginals are so undeveloped that they can’t be trusted to govern themselves. 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026One side is engaged in a decades- long effort to steal the land of the West Bank and subjugate the people who live there, turning them into a permanent underclass. Just one side. 200
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Always funny to hear settlers trumpeting their ability to steal land, and simultaneously whining that they don’t feel secure in the land they have stolen. 130
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Israel controls West Bank non-citizens as subjugated populations under viciously punitive conditions, while Jewish-supremacist thugs get to wreak havoc as they like. Israeli control places Israel under responsibility to protect its population. Israel has pathetically failed in that responsibility. 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026So you exempt the West Bank because they are not citizens of your country, even though you subjugate them. Which is exactly what apartheid South Africa did with the bantustans. 200
Reposted by Scott MacEachernAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026The Daily Wire crew laughed as they introduced a scene in their new slop movie where a gay guy gets kicked off a roof and a queer woman gets her throat slit. 4249987
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Fairly straightforward… the assumption that certain populations have the right to dominate subjugated peoples, subject them to violence and degradation, while manipulating sovereignty to deny responsibility for them. Israel has its own bantustans now, generally with higher levels of violence than SA 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Fascists support fascists, I guess. One thing that encourages me is I heard exactly the same nonsense from defenders of apartheid back in the 1980s - precisely the same playbook. (Israel was, meanwhile, selling the apartheid regime every weapon it could. Again, like finds like.) 200
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It’s quite strange to see defenders of the present Israeli regime, acting as apologists for a government that includes ministers who proudly call themselves fascists. 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A spike in infant mortality and maternal death rates, hundreds of dead children… it hardly figures at all for defenders of the present Israeli regime, does it, as long as those dead children are Palestinian? After all, what fraction of a human life are they actually valued at? 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“…we can build a legal framework that is more than a cynical tool with which to punish one’s enemies and also better than what preceded it — something capacious enough to protect all minorities, principled enough to command legitimacy and resilient enough to resist political manipulation.”nytimes.comOpinion | For Trump, Jews Are Proving to Be a Very Useful ToolDebates about Jews are never just about Jews. 000
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026By chance, I just saw this: change the names and the geographical reference, and these statements could come from any bloodthirsty Hamas spokesman. 000
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026By chance, I just saw this: change the names and the geographical reference, and these statements could come from any bloodthirsty Hamas spokesman. 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I don’t know. But it’s reasonable to keep the focus of expectation on the side that actually has the power here: Israel has far more resources to change the context of the conflict then Palestinians do. Expecting Palestinians to find the solutions to their own subjugation is not legitimate. 300
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026God, yes… You would never want to evaluate the actions of the Israeli government in terms of morals, or the value of human lives! Still less The Most Moral Army in the World (tm). That would be totally unfair! 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Put the expectations for action on the structures that actually have power. 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My ‘preferred path’ would be for the coming elections to result in an -Israeli- government that rejected a future of a country surrounded by ghettoes and wastelands, where you can get a nice cappuccino in Tel Aviv while people are starving a few miles away. 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I’m not advocating anything. I’m reminding you that Israel‘s own history is not a happy example for those people who would advise Palestinians merely to meekly accept their continuing subjugation. Because that is your favoured outcome, isn’t it? 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026You really need to look at what citizenship looked like in bantustans. 000
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026But Israel, apparently, has the right to systematically murder Palestinians, while Palestinians, unlike Jewish inhabitants of Palestine a century ago, have no right to resist. That’s the equation, with the assumption that Palestinian lives are intrinsically worth a tiny fraction of Israel lives. 000
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026You should take a look at the problems of citizenship and domination that the bantustans were established to address. The basic problem was fairly simple: how do you take the best land and control populations governmentally, while simultaneously insisting you have no state responsibility for them? 100
Scott MacEachern @scottmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Perhaps they need to take their example from Israel’s own early history… endure, resist. Do they have less right to do so then did the Jewish inhabitants of Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s? 100