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Irwin Chusid's avatar

Proof that TDS is a crippling mental illness. Did any of these people sound any comparable alarms during the Biden administration? Or was that iteration of "democracy" more to their liking? Good luck with that strike, Mr. Diamond. And always remember the prescient words of Paul "Mr. Opposite" Krugman, when asked when financial markets would recover after Trump's win in 2016: "A first-pass answer is never."

Michael Segal's avatar

It is less newsworthy to point out instances in which the Expert Class was more sensible, but it is worthwhile to do so to gain some perspective.

A good example is the 1975 Harvard petition on the UN Zionism-Racism resolution that I wrote together with my classmates Daniel Benson and Martin Kernberg: https://segal.org/docs/zion/

Our 1975 petition in the Harvard Crimson had a bunch of Experts at least as good as the 1984 petition in the NYT. Of note is that one person signed both: George Wald.

Keith Danish's avatar

General Strike? We’ll see if the officer korps and the enlisteds will follow orders to fire on the strikers.