Attempts to appease political and pseudo intellectual critics has been a dominant trend in higher ed over the last decade—to the point of cooperating with unprecedented levels of state/federal censorship of teaching + research and political interference in university self-governance.

It's a beautiful sunny day in the penultimate week of the semester and i will get students excited at 9:30 AM to discuss Charles Postel's critique of Richard Hofstadter's critique of populism and it's just gonna happen

i'm having an ipa and an ice cream. i'm having a cosmo and onion rings at 8am. i'm having a paper plane and some ramen at 3:30pm (actual thing that happened in the NOLA airport)

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like, academics who use conceptual analysis to flatten out power differences are REALLY part of the problem

i hate to be that person, but if you (the author of the piece) are so dumb that you think that someone asking for more sensitive language at an event is equivalent to the use of state power to curb speech maybe your stupidity is part of the problem with higher ed

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i have evolved to have zero standards on either of these things, and next semester i need to work toward reforming my ways

The 2024 election had the largest Black-White turnout gap in more than three decades. It's a crisis, my friends.

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thank you! I mean i think some of what I was trying to do in the book was look at how much more context mattered than even actual beliefs or values

👇🎯 Your regular reminder that <no one> knows the right amount viewpoint diversity on college campuses, & there are <exactly zero> societal institutions in America with more respect for viewpoint diversity than universities. It's not even close.

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right, i think what i am getting at is the weaponization of the idea of being "apolitical" - which is completely consistent with Willis's larger point. and it's helpful to hear how legally trained folks think about this stuff

i'm trying to work this all out in my own head (with the eventual goal of writing something), not be correct-y

so this is obviously your area and not mine, but it seems to me like this is somehow related to the defintion of "not political" - like it's somehow more fair if we don't think about consequences, only the most abstract procedural stuff.

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Also what a cute dog!

That's my cat but trying to get in the ceiling tiles because reasons.

Oh there 100 is. there's a whole vocabulary of understatement, grilling in ridiculous weather, etc

when the meteorologist in the upper midwest says, "it's not ideal" you know you are fucked

last year i vowed not to take the elevators, and i was really pleased with that decision. not less lost, mind you, but at least not frustrated out of my mind with the damn elevators.

MANY peanut butter M&Ms have been harmed in the making of this paper

stay in school, kids, and you too can be looking up synonyms for the word "preferences" on Friday night

@jessicaajrich.bsky.social we need to discuss this

important to read this alongside the anti-higher ed stories. if you can paint college professors as the elite enemies, then you direct attention away from the people hoarding all the wealth.

at the point of the MPSA paper where i'm either cooking or unhinged and there's no way to tell

i keep getting a message that my rate limit is exceeded, whatever that means, so my angry thread about how attacks on higher ed started as college attainment and leadership/the professoriate all became available to women and minorities...

something crucial in the "universities did this to themselves" discourse - one of the pieces going around quotes a University president saying we're too removed, isolated etc. isn't this *exactly the opposite* -

yup same!

@smotus.bsky.social lays down the case for being an AI-teetotaler and I am here for it