University Canada West- University Canada West - UCW Professor Dr. Jafar Heydari Named Among the World's Top 2% Scientists - Education News Canada September 23, 2025
 - The rise, fall and rise again of Peter Chung’s private-school empire - Vancouver Sun August 22, 2025
 - Scenes From Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Los Alamos Daily Post August 7, 2025
 - University Canada West - Understanding Indigenous History series takes to the skies with Air Canada - Education News Canada June 26, 2025
 - University Canada West - University Canada West Announces New Interim Chairs for its Departments for 2025 - Education News Canada May 7, 2025
 - The Best 8 Reasons to Study at University Canada West - vocal.media April 28, 2025
 - University Canada West - Macleans.ca April 17, 2025
 - How Donald Trump and Elon Musk are waging a deep and wide ‘uncivil war’ - The Conversation March 18, 2025
 
 Social Media Policy- Reddit targeted by Australia’s under-16s social media ban as list of platforms grows - The Guardian November 4, 2025
 - Tanzania Faces Continued Social Media Restrictions After Five-Day Internet Shutdown - TechAfrica News November 4, 2025
 - Zahid Ahmed is ‘ashamed’ for saying creators of social media platforms will burn in hell - Dawn Images November 4, 2025
 - Thiruveer: I prefer to focus on acting than create social media content to enhance my visibility - The Hindu November 4, 2025
 - The Army is turning to TikTok-famous soldiers to pump up recruiting — but it hit a snag - Business Insider November 4, 2025
 - Conservatives resist blaming Musk for reinstating Nick Fuentes on X - Jewish Insider November 4, 2025
 - Commentary: Social media sexualized children’s dance. We need a return to form - The Daily Gazette November 4, 2025
 - R Ashwin Out Of BBL Season 15, Shares Heartbreaking Update On Social Media - NDTV Sports November 4, 2025
 
Author Archives: Robert Basil
Editors are there for you.
This note appears in Seymour Hersh’s Reporter: A Memoir. The last seven words are utterly splendid. Here is a congenial interview with Hersh by Christian Lorentzen.
Love deserves …
In a marvellous Tukwila, Washington used bookstore the other week I picked up a copy of Yvor Winters’ Uncollected Essays and Reviews for $2.99. I am glad I did because it sure was worth it. I would have been happy … Continue reading
News Literacy 2018
Jay Rosen’s NYU School of Journalism’s News Literacy Project is an amazing service to all of us. The links and their analyses give us environmental scans and some helpful dives. As advertising revenue continues to decline, newsrooms are aggressively developing different … Continue reading
									
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		Designing for Accessibility
Karwai Pun’s posters on ‘designing for accessibility’ are very insightful and helpful. Writes Pun: We’ve shared these posters across [the UK] government for feedback and they can be found on GitHub. We are constantly improving and adding to them so please let us … Continue reading
Good scholarly habits
My dear friend Tierney Wisniewski, this website’s cofounder and coeditor, has started up a new blog devoted to her scholarly work and how she gets it done. I love her inaugural piece, “Good Scholarly Habits.” Tierney writes with great clarity and … Continue reading
Editing and Gender
The New York Times obituary of famed film editor Anne V. Coates is very charming. Ms. Coates vowed to find a way to make a career in cinema. She would need to overcome not only her family’s resistance but also … Continue reading
Peers
Clarissa has a couple of words: In a way, the censorship in US academia is worse than the Soviet kind. The Soviet censors were mostly dumb, uneducated people, and it wasn’t all that hard to pull wool over their eyes … Continue reading
Update
The Atlantic has fired Kevin Williamson. Odd, though, that the publisher cited workplace-environment concerns as the impetus rather than the “especially violent belief” itself: The top editor emphasized that Williamson’s firing was not a result of his being anti-abortion—a common … Continue reading
The New York Times – subscription cancelled
Very few times in my life have I not believed my eyes. And the news on these occasions was never good. This morning I had such an experience, reading a column in the New York Times by Bret Stephens, who … Continue reading
Mindfulness … and exasperation
As a Stanford University graduate I am a bit sickened to have read this: “Mindfulness begins with leadership,” said Dr. Leah Weiss, who teaches compassionate leadership at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. told CMO.com. “The best way to introduce mindfulness … Continue reading