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Metrics help us explain the world—and ignore our own accountability

I have always loved spring in Chicago. The Loop buzzes with music and awe-struck architecture fans, while the lake fills up with swimmers braving the sun-soaked but icy water. In the evening, the air is just crisp enough for a jacket. But spring nights in 2024 were special. There was ...

Higher Ed

The Campus After COVID-19

Infrastructures of “innovation” have produced new forms of surveillance and compliance that will refigure the post-pandemic campus

March 4, 2021 • by Bonnie Mak and Hallam Stevens

_____ Campuses around the world continue to engage in a dangerous experiment: welcoming students back to class even as Covid-19 and its more infectious variants spread. On campus, just as elsewhere, a successful and sustained reopening relies on those who are among the most vulnerable: custodial and maintenance staff and essential ...

Global Economy

Economists Should Take a Page From Student Activism

Metrics help us explain the world—and ignore our own accountability

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