Not Unmindful weekly digest #6
It's been a busy week despite my limited schedule. New feature: starting the digest with the most recent story.
Here are links to what was published to Not Unmindful this week (ending 29 August 2025). Posting was kind of irregular this week as I still had to take care of other things. With any hope, things will return to normal next week. In either, no shortage of news out there.
Friday
Another university president falls: Northwestern's Schill resigns under Trump administration pressure
The university’s president, Michael Schill, said he would step down following months of turbulence, including Trump administration cuts of $790 million from the university’s research funds.
Thursday
When bad AI meets history
The troubling rise of sanitized American narratives Founders Museum' from White House and PragerU blurs history, AI-generated fiction. Plus an joke written by AI that could have been the whole post.
Wednesday
Emory University caves, dismantles DEI programs amid federal pressure
Emory University announced today the discontinuation od its DEI programs, offices. Georgia’s largest private university had previously embraced diversity efforts.
When MAGA intellectuals say the quiet parts out loud
The right debates just how weird their authoritarianism should be. A roundtable discussion among leading MAGA intellectuals suggests they might be suffering from success.
Tuesday
The future of voting rights is on the line at the Supreme Court
A supreme court voting rights case could reshape American politics. And we haven't even noticed. And that's not the weird part.
The administration wants military women to know their place
The systematic removal of women from military leadership: a return to 1955? Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.
Non in cautus futuri.
