Rage bait

Last minute run to Best Buy to buy a new laptop because of course I dropped and broke the thing What do I get? I literally only need a browser and Word

It's wild how the vast majority of polling or electoral opinion journalism doesn't think it's worth mentioning that the average American information diet is a pungent mix of corporatist infotainment and right wing agitprop

One. More. Chapter. Then the conclusion (excruciating) Then revisions (pleasant) Thennnnn I’ll… simply pass away or maybe clean my desk

Responses to statement "AI is the next industrial revolution" in 2022: blank stares 2024: half-nods 2026: open boos

the primary and motivating centrist belief is that fascism is simply a reasonable response to the left “The progressive left drives conservatives into paroxysms of rage, particularly over issues such as race and gender identity, and conservatives return the compliment.”

most millennial songs, best movies by presidential term, the timeline is PERIODIZING CULTURE! everybody loves humanities knowledge, let the people learn

After I finish this obligatory chapter on God and Man at Yale I will never write about it again

Told my students today that the hackers having their data wasn't necessarily worse than Canvas having it.

275 MILLION people?? No company should have this much power

D2Lolz

Do schools and hospitals next

It’s wild how much I’ve written the last two days by putting my phone on DND and ignoring emails

The latest American Campus podcast is especially poignant since it is finals week in my neck of the woods. @llassabe.bsky.social and @thetattooedprof.bsky.social discuss the nature of "the grade". www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

Grindset

I continue to think that this is maybe the most emblematic policy shift of them all

JCK is wrong & this article is ridiculous, but universities need to emphasize what makes higher education different than AI / tech companies, and the answer to that question is that which they have marginalized for decades: curiosity-driven, rather than market-driven knowledge.

The show hit 50k downloads last night (🥹) dropping an episode on the Closing of the American Mind today feels like a fitting way to celebrate

Had a great conversation about Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind with @llassabe.bsky.social for the American Campus Podcast. Have a listen!

Reminder that today is the last day of our MADE UP COLLEGE RANKINGS contest. Please email me your most absurd made up college ranking scheme for a chance at BOOKS!! Free books!!!

An official Department of Ed account mocking the Debt Collective on the other site. Totally normal government we have here.

Damn girl

In this News Brief, we talk @ajbauer.bsky.social about his new book, "Making the Liberal Media," and the corporate and ideological forces that shaped the popular idea mainstream media was crawling with fifth columnist agitators hostile to the values of Real America.

Handwriting sleuths, what say you? “Your [????] is a masterpiece. The parents of every student should get it [????]”

See also: gender segregated chess competitions. Girls play separately so the physical stresses of playing chess don't cause them to accidentally rupture a man's ego.

On the latest episode of the American Campus Podcast hosted by @llassabe.bsky.social, Alexandre Frenette discusses his new book Blame the Intern: On (Not) Breaking into the Creative Economy:

The Texas Tech board and administration established ideological a gag order on what graduate students can study but so many university leaders will still parrot claims about a censorious liberal culture.

Dwaipayan Banerjee talks about his new book Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution on the latest episode of the American Campus Podcast, hosted by @llassabe.bsky.social. Check it out here:

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If you’ve sent me an email in the last week………. (ducking, covering face)

First international recording of American Campus Pidcast in Toulouse! Extremely excited to share this one soon

New at PB: Dominique J. Baker (@bakerdphd.bsky.social) & Christopher T. Bennett share their research into the question: Who gets prestigious fellowships?

Very strong piece today ⬇️ For more on the origins of today’s anti-highered tactics, which were honed in the late 60s, see @llassabe.bsky.social ‘s excellent new book, uncpress.org/978146967449.... Important to see the whole playbook.

cough @llassabe.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

here's my post on why we should push the academic freedom to study what you want-- not go to college to study for a job. The evidence is that good wages don't come from specific majors or courses, so actually study what you really care about. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/04/line...

Guess who's coming to Toulouse on Monday? Lauren Lassabe Shepherd! @llassabe.bsky.social She'll be talking about right-wing attacks on US universities. Come join us! cas.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil-cas/...

I am on the American Campus Podcast, hosted by @llassabe.bsky.social, talking about college rankings. tl;dr? The best college is equidistant between a Steve Madden shoe store and a Waffle House. There is also a contest! americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

And you need to read Lauren's whole essay (link in quoteskeet), but here's a little context on Rize.

I do quant research and I still believe strongly in talking to people to make sure I'm thinking carefully about variable and model constructing

*Whew.* I can finally feel safe from those students chanting things and sleeping in tents on the quad. Thank you Trump administration!

New post: What happens when teachers are cut off from the discipline they teach? How is HS English becoming codified, commodified, & captured by corporate interests and administrative functionaries? Where do we go from here? #edusky #literacies #academicsky open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...

Finally, now's a good time to order your own copy of my book Archie Bunker for President - about how we got to our current moment of politics as television entertainment and a television character in the White House. uncpress.org/978146969090...

Even if I wasn't friends with @llassabe.bsky.social I would still be recommending Resistance from the Right. It such a smart and relevant history of conservative activists on campus. uncpress.org/978146967449...

1990.

Who else hides from their dogs so they can get work done

Ahem…

Anyone who wants to hear me talk about what I do everyday feel free to listen to the @llassabe.bsky.social and I did. And thanks to her for the opportunity! www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

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