Ceasefire, Against Official Statements, Teacher Gag Orders, Migrant Crisis
Ep. 179 w/ Show Notes
What happens now that Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend the ongoing ceasefire? Ravi is joined by guest co-host Isaac Saul to discuss the current status of the war and its likely outcomes.
While Palestinians and Israelis deal with the realities on the ground, the conflict has also exposed growing strife in the U.S. that’s left businesses and corporations scrambling to respond. But why do so many institutions feel obligated to issue statements about world events? The hosts look to Jonathan Chait’s latest piece in New York Magazine to help answer this question.
Ravi and Isaac then review a new report from PEN America, which found that over one million teachers and 100,000 professors are now under “educational gag orders,” and break down how these laws hinder teachers and educators from doing their jobs.
Finally, New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently announced sweeping budget cuts that include reducing the number of police officers to the lowest amount since the 1990s and mid-year budget cuts to 43% of the city’s schools. Adams has blamed the city’s $7 billion budget crisis on the city’s influx of migrants. Will this be the issue that tears New York City apart?
TIMESTAMPS
0:01 - Ceasefire
27:25 - Against Official Statements, Teacher Gag Orders
48:21 - Migrant Crisis
Ceasefire
Israel-Hamas War As Truce Appears to Hold, Israeli Leaders Face a Tough Choice (New York Times, 11/28/23)
Biden Hopes to Alter the Trajectory of the War as Hostages Are Released (New York Times, 11/27/23)
What happens to Gaza after the war? (The Economist, 11/19/23)
Can the Palestinian Authority Really Govern Gaza After the War? (New York Times, 11/24/23)
What Will Happen in Gaza After Israel Stops Its War on Hamas? (Bloomberg, 11/21/23)
What Comes after War in Gaza (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 10/12/23)
The Israel-Hamas hostage deal (Tangle, 11/22/23)
Against Official Statements
Just Stop Making Official Statements About the News (New York Magazine, 11/26/23)
Bill Ackman defends Elon Musk against antisemitism accusations after leading the charge against Harvard students who slammed Israel (Future, 11/20/23)
Bill Ackman Wants to Take Elon Musk’s X Public. History Says It’s a Risky Move. (Barrons, 10/5/23)
War of the Statements The unusual way Americans have processed the Israel-Hamas War. (New York Magazine, 10/21/23)
The Murky Logic of Companies’ Israel-Hamas Statements (The Atlantic, 10/25/23)
Companies Are Caught in the Israel-Hamas War’s Crossfire (New York Times, 10/23/23)
The Corporate and Cultural Fallout From the Israel-Hamas War (The Cut, 11/7/23)
U.S. Adults Split on Companies Taking Political, Social Stances (Gallup, 1/20/23)
Teacher Gag Orders
Report: 1.3M Teachers, 100,000 Professors Now Under ‘Educational Gag Orders’ (The 74 Million, 11/19/23)
NYC Mayor Eric Adams blasts students’ ‘vile show of antisemitism’ that forced teacher to hide in office (Fox News, 11/26/23)
My students asked if I was ‘Team Israeli’ or ‘Team Palestinian.’ Here’s what I said. (Chalkbeat, 10/17/23)
Teacher Gag Laws Are Everywhere. How Do We Sort Them Out? (Forbes, 2/16/23)
How teachers can talk about the Israel-Hamas conflict (The Hechinger Report, 11/22/23)
Guide helps San Diego County teachers, families talk to students about Israel-Hamas War (NBC, San Diego, 11/27/23)
Migrant Crisis
Title 42 Ends, Khan Academy’s New AI Tool, House Prices Falling (Lost Debate, 5/11/23)
Waning Border Crisis, Surprising Social Media Study, Religious Decline (Lost Debate, 8/1/23)
Why New York Is Experiencing a Migrant Crisis (Center on Foreign Relations, 10/5/23)
New York City migrant services on the chopping block in second round of budget cuts (CBS, 11/21/23)
What Texas spends on busing migrants (Axios, 11/27/23)
How a migrant crisis reshapes New York – and Mayor Eric Adams (Christian Science Monitor, 11/17/23)
What Today’s Migrant Crisis Looks Like to a Holocaust Refugee (New York Times, 11/26/23)
Cardi B slams NYC Mayor Eric Adams over announced $120M budget cuts amid surge of migrants into Big Apple (Daily Mail, 11/19/23)
AOC claims working class residents fleeing NYC because it’s too expensive (New York Post, 11/27/23)
Statement by New York City Comptroller Brad Lander on FY 2024 Modified Budget (New York City Comptroller, 11/16/23)
Finger-pointing and frustration over migrant crisis leads to a total breakdown between White House and NYC mayor (CNN, 9/1/23)
New York Has Tools It’s Not Using to Solve Migrant Crisis (Bloomberg, 9/26/23)