The evangelical supporters of the bullshitter are crazy religious fanatics. The author's conversation with his mother illustrates that point.

In their fervency, they overlook the fact that their scriptures do not say that the hoped-for second coming will occur in the next century or even the next millennium. That is an arbitrary addition to their religion. Perhaps they would conclude that preserving everything the Earth's ecosphere is consistent with their religion if they are hammered on that one point.

Tufts University requires all professors to raise 40% of their salaries from outside sources. Some tenured professors are suing, calling this a violation of contract.

They may be right, but this harms a lot more than individual professors. It represents another step in the overall corruption of that university (and it's surely not the only one). With this requirement, the university downgrades (and tends to eliminate) research that isn't profitable, and pushes research under the power of either the US government or businesses that already have dangerous amounts of power.

Tufts may claim that it is only ceding to outside pressures. That may be true from a short-term perspective. However, these pressures stem from sources that will keep pushing. The more they get, the more they demand.

Campaigns for social change can benefit greatly from solidarity from the community around them.

600 French doctors threaten to quit in protest against the funding cuts that are making public hospitals inadequate.

This is the work of the plutocratist president, Macron.

Indian thugs displayed a level of repression shocking even in India when they attacked student protesters and bystanders.

The new citizenship bill discriminates in favor of non-Muslim refugees from three countries, but does not take any existing rights away from anyone. Thus, it is biased but not repressive.

By contrast, what India has done to deny citizenship to residents of Assam threatens to expel people who have lived all their lives in India, and what it has done to Kashmir is comparable to China in Xinjiang.

However, they all spring from the same source: the repressive spirit of religious prejudice that Modi's party is based on.