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Surely a brain drain of liberal arts professors is part of the plan though? Will be interesting to see engineers/pharma/mathematicians also leave. US doesn’t lo

Surely a brain drain of liberal arts professors is part of the plan though? Will be interesting to see engineers/pharma/mathematicians also leave. US doesn’t look like a nice place to be in the next few years so perhaps they will.

2muchcoffeeman 2y ago
Those are history professors though. I don't want to disparage other lib arts, but the historians are at least looking at what has happened when countries become fascist states. Could they have recognised all the warning signs?
- perihelions 2y ago
  Snyder was regularly posted on HN on his subject matter. HN used to consider him someone worth reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10210327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10210327 ("Understanding Hitler’s Anti-Semitism (theatlantic.com)" (2015), 59 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41583725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41583725 ("Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America by Surprise (lithub.com)" (2024), 87 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33104723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33104723 ("How does the Russo-Ukrainian War end? (snyder.substack.com)" (2022), 88 comments) https://hn.algolia.com/?q=timothy%20snyder https://hn.algolia.com/?q=timothy%20snyder And a few more here (Algolia search censors things that were flagged), https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=snyder.substack.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=snyder.substack.com
hjgjhyuhy 2y ago
Yep, it’s an interesting social experiment. USA is becoming like Russia, with fake democracy and robber baron oligarchy that does whatever it wants. Many people are going to be OK with it, as long as they think it benefits them personally. But I’m not sure many in academia will be among those. I bet China, India and EU will soon overtake America in sciences. Made in America may yet become the new made in Bangladesh.

2muchcoffeeman 2y ago

Those are history professors though. I don't want to disparage other lib arts, but the historians are at least looking at what has happened when countries become fascist states. Could they have recognised all the warning signs?

perihelions 2y ago
Snyder was regularly posted on HN on his subject matter. HN used to consider him someone worth reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10210327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10210327 ("Understanding Hitler’s Anti-Semitism (theatlantic.com)" (2015), 59 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41583725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41583725 ("Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America by Surprise (lithub.com)" (2024), 87 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33104723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33104723 ("How does the Russo-Ukrainian War end? (snyder.substack.com)" (2022), 88 comments) https://hn.algolia.com/?q=timothy%20snyder https://hn.algolia.com/?q=timothy%20snyder And a few more here (Algolia search censors things that were flagged), https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=snyder.substack.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=snyder.substack.com

hjgjhyuhy 2y ago

Yep, it’s an interesting social experiment. USA is becoming like Russia, with fake democracy and robber baron oligarchy that does whatever it wants. Many people are going to be OK with it, as long as they think it benefits them personally. But I’m not sure many in academia will be among those. I bet China, India and EU will soon overtake America in sciences. Made in America may yet become the new made in Bangladesh.