I’m going to be that guy: make fun of the New Yorker all you want, but remember that the magazine had one of the greatest baseball writers ever on staff, Roger Angell, who wrote about the game for sixty years, practically till the day he died in 2022.
FYI, there was a fair amount of criticism of Lisa Cook when she was nominated in 2022 that while her resume seemed impressive, her actual scholarship was a lot less substantive than it looked and that she was more interested in Great Awokening messaging than scholarship of the type traditionally favored in Fed nominees. (Those criticisms were mostly *not* leveled against Jefferson.) But it was mostly people conservatives who leveled those criticisms and she got through.
In that light and the current accusations levied against her, there are a lot of similarities to Claudine Gay at Harvard.
I’m going to be that guy: make fun of the New Yorker all you want, but remember that the magazine had one of the greatest baseball writers ever on staff, Roger Angell, who wrote about the game for sixty years, practically till the day he died in 2022.
So there. Resume normal snarking activity.
FYI, there was a fair amount of criticism of Lisa Cook when she was nominated in 2022 that while her resume seemed impressive, her actual scholarship was a lot less substantive than it looked and that she was more interested in Great Awokening messaging than scholarship of the type traditionally favored in Fed nominees. (Those criticisms were mostly *not* leveled against Jefferson.) But it was mostly people conservatives who leveled those criticisms and she got through.
In that light and the current accusations levied against her, there are a lot of similarities to Claudine Gay at Harvard.