Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.
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Germany still hasn’t fully recovered from expelling and killing so many of its top researchers back in 1933. A lot of brilliant minds were forced to leave—people who went on to do groundbreaking work in other countries, especially the U.S.
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# DumbFascism
They were already in charge
I'm pretty sure the Lindy movement didn't have a big FDR contingent.
https://youtu.be/q-_6xaPNldM?si=sRtyxjFG5Ucy3JKX
Our academic institutions better start acting like they want to continue to exist & not placate buffoonery.
The problem with the lack of Americans had nothing to do with reliance on H1-Bs
We couldn’t find US engineers with the skill sets. Defunding higher ED is surrendering competition for the future
“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Winston Churchill
They are welcome !
The exodus from 1930s Germany was a trickle at first, too.
Now we’re losing some of our best minds, for nothing more than political gamesmanship & hunger for power based in part on anti-intellectualism.
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Thread the needle. Do not use vile antisemitism as the excuse to burn the Constitution.
I'm not sure, though, where you see vile antisemitism in this thread, nor constitution burning.
Approx 2.4% of US population is Jewish. Up to 25% of University faculty are Jewish.
maybe a bit of a lesson of what to expect in the US in the weeks to come.