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The Daily Signal - Group Tracks Growing Number of ‘Canceled’ Faculty at American Colleges

It is no secret that the far left has infiltrated higher education. But Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, says his organization is doing all it can to expose the spread of woke ideology on America's college campuses.

The National Association of Scholars operates a cancel culture tracker to document each time a faculty member at a college or university is canceled by his or her employer. The group now has tracked hundreds of cases, Wood says.

"We decided once the numbers started to pile up that it would be a good thing to have one place where we can go to see how often this is happening," Wood says. "Virtually every week we get approached by another faculty member at some college or university saying, 'What can I do?'"

Wood joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to explain the biggest issues he sees in higher education and what can be done to resolve them. He also discusses why the University of North Carolina denied tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of The New York Times' controversial 1619 Project.

We also cover these stories:

  • Vice President Kamala Harris will make her first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border as vice president on Friday. 
  • The Supreme Court sides with a high school cheerleader in an important free speech case.
  • Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says the state's schools will teach children about the evils of communism. 

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Tech Won't Save Us - VCs Want to Disrupt the Media w/ Eoin Higgins

Paris Marx is joined by Eoin Higgins to discuss why tech companies and venture capital firms are launching their own media verticals, what Marc Andreessen hopes to get out of Clubhouse and Substack, and why Jeff Bezos may have a better approach to media.

Eoin Higgins is a freelance journalist and writes on Substack under The Flashpoint. Follow Eoin on Twitter as @EoinHiggins_.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.

Also mentioned in this episode:

  • Eoin wrote about what venture capital firms are doing in media and Marc Andreessen’s favoriting of alt-right tweets.
  • In 2016, Marc Andreessen wrote a tweet about colonialism in India that received a lot of backlash.
  • Coinbase started a “media arm” to “become a source of truth” in the face of critical reporting.
  • Anna Wiener recently wrote about how tech may be shifting from a narrative of disruption to one of building institutions (to serve themselves).
  • Sam Harnett critically examined tech journalism and its history, especially with regard to reporting on the gig economy.
  • Zoe Schiffer and Megan Farokhmanesh detailed how venture capitalists used Clubhouse to organize against critical coverage of the industry and go after journalists like Taylor Lorenz.
  • Ed Zitron wrote about how tech journalism’s shift from an enthusiast press to an industrial press was something venture capitalists and powerful people in the industry were not happy about.

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Short Wave - Climate Change Is Threatening The U.S. West’s Water Supply

The past year has been the driest or second driest in most Southwestern U.S. states since record-keeping began in 1895. Climate Correspondent Lauren Sommer reports that farms and cities have begun imposing water restrictions, but the water supply will shrink no matter what the weather brings. The supply spans tens of millions of people and the farmland that produces most of the country's fruits and vegetables. As a result, the people who manage the West's complex water systems are realizing that with climate change, they can no longer rely on the past to predict the future.

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Curious City - What’s Happening With Chicago’s Toxic Lead Service Lines?

Illinois passed a new law last month that sets a deadline for the state to replace all of its toxic lead service lines -- those pipes that deliver drinking water to our homes and park fountains. Curious City’s Monica Eng fills us in on how long it's going to take to get rid of all the lead lines.
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Strict Scrutiny - Cheerleaders for Democracy

Kate and Leah recap four opinions: Lange v. California; Mahanoy Area School District v. BL; Collins v. Yellen; and Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Post-Pandemic Screen Wean: Getting Your Kids Off Their Devices

After a year of on-line life and learning, parents are struggling with how to unplug their kids from the technology that kept them connected during the pandemic. How to keep the battle over screen time from turning into a screaming match. Reset talks tech with Washington Post technology reporter Heather Kelley. For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast. And please give us a rating, it helps other listeners find us. For more about Reset, go to wbez.org and follow us on Twitter @WBEZReset
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Bear Market? Not According to These Monster Financing Rounds

$100 million for NFTs from Fox. $230 million for a new DeFi funding DAO. $380 million for Ledger. If this is a bear market, it’s going to be well funded. 

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Circle.

Today on "The Breakdown," NLW looks at the contrast between growing bear market sentiment versus a sustained set of high-profile eight and nine figure financing rounds across multiple dimensions of the crypto market. Specifically, he looks at funding deals in NFTs, DeFi and institutional bitcoin, arguing that even if we do head into a bear market, that capital is likely to mean a return to bull more quickly. 

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