But the mandates also help colleges shovel heaps of bureaucratic muck—validating data for accreditation, carrying out enrollment, flagging troubled students, aggregating metrics of all kinds.
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Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
Still, Colbert didn’t shy from validating those who tied the cancellation to political pressure.
Critics from across the political spectrum, including prominent Jewish leaders, condemned the discussion as legitimizing antisemitic and racist rhetoric.
—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
Gods have been especially helpful in this task of corralling the manual labor of the people and legitimizing it symbolically.
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