Tell the truth and shame the Devil

Does the Yale report suggest that they should increase the number of seats in entering classes? Making Yale more affordable is a good thing. But if the # of seats does not significantly increase, it's a very incomplete way to address access issues.

One of the great things about getting older is figuring out what is for you and what is not.

Why Fascists Hate Sociology (opinion) The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power.

Schwalbe: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

All of this could have been avoided if decision makers had taken their liberal arts classes seriously and learned the basics.

Really appreciating Huntsville as a city today.

Chris Bail's book Breaking the social media prism

Reading

Related youtu.be/6Dqj_dOzgO8?...

I'm just catching up on @thomaszimmer from a few weeks back. Listen media.steady.page/post/27faead...

Don’t believe me, ask @danielrmorrison.bsky.social. He saw an early version of this paper. It’s waaay more developed now!

#HigherEd #Pedagogy #Academia #CollegesAndUniversities #Education

The Political Scene | The New Yorker The Washington Roundtable is joined by Robert Kagan, a historian and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, for a conversation about the pressures facing American democracy, the security of elect...

Brooks shoild read more: A Stark Warning About the 2026 Election, with Robert Kagan. Episode: play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr... . Media: pdrl.fm/7a3b46/pdst.... . <p>The Washington Roundtable is joined by Robert Kagan, a historian and senior fellow at the Brookin... -- Sent from Podcast Republic.

David Brooks says that there is intellectual diversity and that Yale is not super woke or reactionary. And that the answer to problems at the university are in the university.

All it took was a more permanent position at Yale and a dinner or two and Brook changes his story about universities.

yaledailynews.com/articles/dav...

Facing Slavery as Saving Face: Racial Cynicism in Student Perceptions of Universities Studying Slavery - Claire Whitlinger, Daniel R. Morrison, 2026 As institutional reckonings move from the margins to the mainstream, an increasing number of colleges and universities have sponsered efforts to examine their i...

New pub on Valentine's Day. Check out Sociological Perspectives doi.org/10.1177/0731...

And big thanks to Claire Whitlinger!

How Parents Can Better Prepare Their High School Boys For College Why timing, temperament, connection, and developmental realities—not intelligence—shape how boys experience high school and college readiness.

So many articles discuss how boys are not maturing at the same rate as girls. They more or less explicitly say it's biological.

Then all the reasons turn out to be social and relational, not biological.
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Candle aflame

Huntsville AL

Cancel culture strikes at a certain southern state university.

The ‘Masculinity Crisis’ Is Real. This Forgotten Book Explains Why.

Did you see this @tristanbridges.bsky.social? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/m...

I don't exactly believe in NYE magic or miracles, but this may be one of them.

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New article with the wonderful @jonathancoley.bsky.social on cisgendered organizations:

Christian Universities as Cisgendered Organizations: Discriminatory Policies Toward Transgender and Nonbinary Students in Christian Higher Education

AI predicts a Missouri victory

Yesterday, AI predicted the outcome of a game that is happening now.

Get you some brilliant and consistent coauthors. Best thing about academia when you don't have several people in your subfield at your own university. #sociology #paperaccepted

A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory Like so many of critical race theory's detractors, Matthew Yglesias fails to engage with the actual scholarship.

Thanks @victorerikray.bsky.social for this piece that clearly explains Charles Mills's perspective on liberalism. So many seem to misunderstand. www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...

Really looking forward to having this article with @jonathancoley.bsky.social out into the world. Re-reading the proofs now and there are some great lines in here.

You have SSSR! I suppose I have SSS, SSSI, 4S, etc etc

Man who had an inappropriate relationship with a student in the past and an obvious conflict of interest now opines on a problem that might not actually exist.

Billionaire Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale calls elite college undergrads a ‘loser generation’ | Fortune share.google/YQEDNaDYSMbU...

I'm considering not renewing my ASA membership this year. Given funding cuts and all the things, I won't be able to come to the annual meeting in NYC this coming August.

Am I alone in this?

Can Liberalism Be Saved? The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.

Is it true that a very famous Harvard Law professor should know something about the career of his friend and book party attendee Henry Kissinger? The guy was very busy. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Did you see Gee's interview with the Chronicle? I think he said lots of university presidents agreed with over half of the Compact.

KING: Backroom agreements have no place at U.Va. The University’s agreement with the Trump administration reeks not only because of its terms, but also for the method in which it was composed.

Student journalists have something to say

KING: Backroom agreements have no place at U.Va. - The Cavalier Daily - University of Virginia's Student Newspaper share.google/ckWOOF4b6mGc...

Hey @npr.org students compare college prices all the time. It's ridiculous to say otherwise and to have someone on morning edition who misrepresents reality.