What are your favorite book review/book news publications? Especially interested in websites, rather than print.

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Socialism starts with me curled up under a blanket on my couch feeling joy for half a second

To a large extent, @teenvogue.com's Politics section was doing the only dedicated progressive reporting on American higher education. While higher ed issues sometimes receive coverage in places like The Nation & The American Prospect, Teen Vogue treated campuses like a dedicated beat.

wym zombie by the cranberries is an anti-IRA anthem? I think I actually need a minute 😭

Had a great time talking about dogs and all the other animals we forget on university campuses with @llassabe.bsky.social for @americancampus.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

NEW: 12 Mississippi polling places have moved and 4 have been closed ahead of the Nov. 4 legislative special elections, an MFP investigation finds. Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.

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Typically I remind you to subscribe to our podcast, Reckoning with Jason Herbert, but tonight, have you checked out the pods by friends of #HATM @llassabe.bsky.social or @draftingthepast.bsky.social? Links below. 4/

It’s telling that both Douthat and Klein (ostensibly on opposites sides of what counts as the partisan divide at the NYT) make the exact same baldly false assertions about the meaning of the 2024 election.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

such a stellar conversation, one that pulled a lot of threads together and offered a far-clearer picture of the whole than I ever had before – and I research, write on, and teach about this stuff pretty much constantly! take the little time to give it a listen; it's well worth it.

plus a little separate shout-out for @llassabe.bsky.social 's phenomenal American Campus podcast as a whole. if you're at all part of or connected to higher education, it's indispensable – for understanding How We Got Here, how "Here" arose from decades-long political currents, and so, so much else.

My interview about the Scopes trial with @llassabe.bsky.social for her excellent American Campus podcast is now available: americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

Every time I read the chronicle of higher Ed’s daily briefing newsletter I ask myself why I didn’t just hit delete first

i am 25 but can someone explain to me why James Carville has so much purchase in politics. Like, the last election he won was in a different century

Today at 4:15 ET! I’m talking to Lauren Lassabe Shepherd and Nayanika Ghosh about their work on the right’s strategies for delegitimizing forms of academic knowledge production. The event is at Swarthmore and there will be a live stream registration below. swarthmore.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Really enjoyed chatting with @llassabe.bsky.social about how the manufactured college free speech crisis paved the way for the assault on universities today: americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

Translation: "We find the bluest-haired, most septum-pierced, most sophomore-at-Bard-coded person to interview and then ask every other attendee to defend what they just said, and then start pitching a book about how people like her are the Real Threat™️ to democracy."

Each year I update this table which surveys scholars programs at the top 10 colleges and unis. Were schools that cared so much about DEI in 2020 still committed 5 years later? Here's what I found:

Check out this episode of @llassabe.bsky.social 's podcast (and the podcast, in general!) with @joshshepperd.bsky.social - and thanks for the shout out! (Btw, I learned last weekend that Bill Stepheny argues that the term shout out emerged on WBAU, early 80s.) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

I feel like someone really needs to write about why so many old people seem to be at TPUSA events aimed at youths

@politico.com details what Young Republicans say among themselves when no one else listening. It’s disgusting…anyone who still thinks the real treat comes from “woke” students shouting such ass hats, and their paid provocateurs, down should really read this article. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Oct. 22 | Webinar: "Is There a Higher Education Crisis?”: Amid government intervention, shifting finances and competing perspectives, America’s colleges campuses face a new era. How did we get here? Learn with us: bit.ly/4gXHJzB

And MAGA leadership is rife with advanced degrees from the Ivies, including Trump himself

What we should be asking is why somebody like Thiel, whose fortune was subsidized by massive public investments at University of Illinois, & humanities granting organizations at Stanford, wants to dismantle that educational infrastructure now that he’s rich.

Can an historian of journalism please explain to me how the rule developed where a president says something, it has to be taken seriously as possibly true, even if it is obviously false. This rule must have a history (meaning, it can change! That is my point!)

Heads up we’re doing CK quote memes styled as founding fathers portraiture now

On the Wall St racket in our campus bookstores www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne. Do apply and spread the word! www.unilu.ch/en/universit... www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

“high-performing portions of the government’s portfolio of student debt”

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people." Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.

Hey can anyone find one single example of this

Chris Rufo did this and was platformed as a legitimate authority on universities by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

But if you can’t wait for this weekend, listen to @leahlao.bsky.social @lmacthompson1.bsky.social @llassabe.bsky.social and me talk about the movie over much wine. Make sure to subscribe- new episodes coming October 9th! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

I'm gonna be saying "was silence not an option?" from now on

Brought to us, in part, by the eugenicists! Had so much fun in this conversation about the birth of the AAUP with @hankreichman.bsky.social, who was a great sport Everyone go join your chapter www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

you're telling me that 15K people weren't really replying to every cracker barrel twitter post with outrage

This policy is the ultimate expression of what is wrong with the last three decades of technocratic liberalism. It hands public money to bad private sector actors. It will win over zero of the reactionary voters it is supposed to mollify. It will massively annoy every other voter in the process.

Remarkably, by the rules of the language game around campus politics, not having been in any way connected to a college since you last puked in a dorm common room 30 years ago, actually qualifies you as a keen critic of higher ed.

Brian Kilmeade wants to euthanize the homeless. Gavin newsom wants to clear their encampments. Aesthetics 👏 matter 👏 in HOW you disappear the homeless. #voteblue

I don’t want to hear things like, “we have three months left of the year”

Unfortunately the Bieber song Daisies is such a bop

It was so lovely to chat with @llassabe.bsky.social! University presses are creative, resilient, mission-driven, and just one of my favorite things to talk about.

Excited to hear Kent State University Press’s director, @tottencs.bsky.social, on the American Campus Podcast, where she talks with @llassabe.bsky.social about the meaning and value of university-press publishing.

So 90% of my followers appear to be anti-MAGA, anti-GOP, blue no matter who, “antifa” bots lmao How are yall blocking bots

My sense is that the difference between this year and the last 2 years is way worse than this for sociology. Like COVID-year job openings or worse.

New video on Eric Schmitt's White nationalist speech at NatCon. With what happened last week, it was largely overlooked, but it can't go unnoticed. youtu.be/HY4quehYBmc?...