academician

I mean, it didn't succeed, but they tried: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch_Supreme_Court_nomination#Filibuster

I'll admit I loved those books as a kid. I was obsessed for a while with getting a pith helmet so I could go on adventures like Babar.

As an adult...well, the colonialist and racist overtones are no longer lost on me, and my son doesn't own any of the books. But part of me misses my innocent wonder reading them.

It would be the ultimate irony if this article was, itself, generated by AI. Based on the article's "voice", I doubt it is, but in this brave new world...one must always wonder.