Saturday, February 28, 2026

GET ME REWRITE: Duke University closes Center for Advanced Hindsight just when founder Dan Ariely needs it the most

 
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Headline:  The Chronicle,  2/26/2026

Nikhil Sethi reports:
Duke’s Center for Advanced Hindsight run by Professor of Business Dan Ariely is set to close, Provost Alec Gallimore’s office announced Thursday. 
The timing comes just one week after Ariely was named hundreds of times in connection with Jeffrey Epstein in the documents released last Friday through the Epstein Files Transparency Act. However, Duke has said the two are unrelated.  [emphasis added]
In the University’s Thursday press release, the decision is attributed to Duke’s ongoing strategic realignment and includes the sunset of two other centers — The Biodemography of Aging Research Unit and Center for Healthy Eating Research. A University spokesperson further said in a Friday email to The Chronicle that the decision was made in December.

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GET ME REWRITE: Another Trump business venture flounders


 
Headline:  New York Times, 2/27/2026

Stacy Cowley and Matthew Goldstein report:
Truth Social, which has lost money since it launched as Trump Media’s original product, has failed to gain significant market share or advertisers. It serves mainly as a platform for Mr. Trump to communicate policy proposals with the world and air his political grievances.

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Transphobia continues to run amok in Trump administration

 
Headline:  New York Times, 3/27/2026

The decision opens with a line from Mr. Trump’s executive order setting two immutable genders as U.S. policy. Federal law “permits a federal agency employer to maintain single-sex bathrooms and similar intimate spaces,” the 2-to-1 majority wrote. “And it permits a federal agency employer to exclude employees, including trans-identifying employees, from opposite-sex facilities.” 
The commission’s sole Democratic member, Kalpana Kotagal, issued a pointed dissent, describing the decision as rushed and legally suspect.

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