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As the person who broke the story about the NYT's textual deletions from the 1619 Project, I'll offer a few thoughts on this response from the paper in the thread

MINI-THREAD: Since the #1619Project creators are still insisting that the deleted line was not an "official" part of the project, here are documented instances where the @NYTimes published its claim

If I were the parent of a college student right now, I'd advise them to withdraw for the semester, enroll for online Gen Ed credits at the local community college

THREAD: The 1619 Project's creator is now claiming that the text they deleted from their website was not part of the "official" project, and was only "promotional material." Let's take

Contrary to a popular myth, Abraham Lincoln never corresponded with Karl Marx.But Friedrich Engels absolutely was pen pals with Werner Sombart, later a principle philosophical architect of National Socialism and

THREAD: If you want to understand the academic job crisis in the humanities and some social sciences, it's mostly an accumulated glut from decades of PhD overproduction. PhD overproduction occurs