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With Holy Week approaching, I was thinking of sharing a short daily meditation from St. Thomas Aquinas. Nothing from me—just his wisdom—but I’d do my best to walk you through it and help you understand it. Would that interest you?
As one of the 200 or so academics who've been fired for exercising their academic freedom, I deeply appreciate the work FIRE has done in general and Lukianoff and Schlott for authoring this excellent text. So much of what they have reported relates directly to my case as well as many others. Here's the story:
Porter, D. (2022). “Case Summary (Porter vs Sergent & Berea College).” In Krauss, L. M., The sad case of David Porter and his fight for academic freedom: Guest Post. Critical Mass Nov 3. lawrencekrauss.substack…
And the survey that was all the evidence needed to end my tenure and cause to dismiss me: