Ellen Fitzpatrick
Historian
- No name change will change this
- Superb piece www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
- JFK on press criticism of the president … 1962 www.dvarchive.com/921-4447/196...
- The Kennedy Center was named for JFK to honor his vigorous defense of the arts. Since the current admin claims to value historical truth and fact, while ignoring it routinely, and seeks control over this space, they might wish to consider what JFK had to say: www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-...
- Notably : “The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.” JFK at Amherst
- What if History Died by Sanctioned Ignorance? newrepublic.com/article/1983... via @newrepublic.com
- www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u... I’ll bet on Harvard on this one. To use the word “creativity” to describe this effort to dismantle the universities is repellant
- Tom Edsall puts his finger on some hard truths here. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/o...
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- Reposted by Ellen FitzpatrickThere is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy Harvard & others must counter this quickly The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
