My latest essay in the Chronicle Review.

www.chronicle.com/article/civi...

Usha Vance Catches Husband Measuring Her Skull Again

Usha Vance Catches Husband Measuring Her Skull Again

Timothy Messer-Kruse at our Campus Liberty Tour! YouTube video by Steamboat Institute

The sponsors of my debate last month are releasing short clips highlighting some key moments. Here is their latest edit: www.youtube.com/shorts/PhvNu...

Starcloud reaches $1.1 billion valuation as AI space race heats up Orbital compute infrastructure startup Starcloud has raised $170 million at a $1.1 billion ‌valuation, as companies including Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin race to move power-hungry A...

“The latest ​round brings Starcloud's total funding to $200 million, with ​the…company having raised $34 million…from investors including Andreessen…and In-Q-Tel, the Central ​Intelligence Agency's venture capital firm.”

Wait, the CIA is a venture capitalist? What?
www.reuters.com/business/ret...

"When they're told that government works in a certain way...." YouTube video by Steamboat Institute

A clip from my debate last week where I discuss the inherent and disguised ideology of civics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uyq...

Thursdays' great civics debate ranged across political science, social theory, history, and constitutionalism. My opponent, Josh Dunn is a true scholar and a nice guy. But I quibble with Josh being declared the winner, as I pulled more undecideds to my view. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpbQ...

Vivek Ramaswamy wants to consolidate Ohio universities. 'We have too many' Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican running for governor, floated the idea of consolidating Ohio universities to pay for eliminating the state's income tax.

Son of a pharma researcher and an engineer who went to private prep school and then Harvard and Yale wants to close public colleges to pay for a tax cut. Did I get that right?

www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...

Thanks... I'm a pacifist so I like to think of it as a working toward mutual understanding. That is until you kick my dog. Then its SISU!

One day away from my big debate with Josh Dunn. If you haven't considered the case against civics education, you might want to tune in. Thurs. 6 pm PT. This debate will also be livestreamed and archived on YouTube. Here is the link to the livestream: www.youtube.com/live/4l0r2sX...

MAGA’s War on Teaching Goes Full Conspiracy Theory What were once considered the ravings of tinfoil-hat conspiracy junkies are now par for the course for the Trumpian right and its analysis of the state of public education.

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Article I, Section 8, Clause 11:

[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; . . .

These Schools Want Civil Discourse on Campus. Even That Is Up for Dispute. New programs aimed at reforming campus culture have drawn scrutiny from skeptical professors, administrators and students who see them as a conservative takeover.

“The university has always been a politicized environment," said Timothy Messer-Kruse…a vocal critic of schools of civic thought. "But what this movement is doing is using the law to advance a political ideology, which is contrary to core conservative and American values…” tinyurl.com/dv26z3hx

Hegseth invited Christian nationalist Doug Wilson to preach at Pentagon The self-described “paleo-Confederate” has argued that wives should submit to their husbands, women should be denied the vote and Christian enslavers were on “firm scriptural ground.”

Beyond the gleeful assault on church-state separation, the open racism and misogyny, is the disturbing celebration of those who were traitors to their oath and the Constitution, which is what "Paleo Confederate" is. This is normalizing treason to the republic.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The other Ohio State nutty professor, exposed: Yale Law-educated Christopher Green tried to claim that I “assaulted him” after he blocked my attempt to board a public elevator.

These are Ohio State’s apparent thought leaders.

If you are an educator considering adopting a legally compliant but uncompromising textbook for your civics course, dm me and I will send you a review copy. Also, for all course adoptions I'm making myself available via zoom for class Q&A.

BGSU professor’s new book challenges a patriotic narrative Timothy Messer-Kruse, a Bowling Green State University (BGSU) professor, recently published a civics textbook designed to meet Ohio’s Department of Higher Education’s new requirements. These new requi...

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Ohio State Chase Center professor placed on administrative leave after assaulting cameraman The Ohio political blog, The Rooster, published video showing Chase Center Assistant Professor Luke Perez hitting a cameraman and then throwing him to the ground.

When the mask comes off the "civil discourse" rhetoric.

www.wosu.org/politics-gov...

A sure sign of spring is renewed attacks on CRT, DEI, and now in Kansas, "racial, ethnic or gender studies." In addition to the old white panic, this bill cracks down on "anti-racism" "social justice" and "cultural competence." What's next requiring cruelty?

www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/...

Then a $10k bounty hunter bonus: "An aggrieved person, including a student or parent, may bring a civil action against the public school, school district, or employing public agency, or against an individual school employee in their professional capacity...for violations of this section." END

I don't think it is possible to teach history and comply with the requirement of NOT ""Using dialectical analysis to frame history or current events primarily as class, racial, or identity-based conflicts..." /10

"Implementing culturally relevant or responsive pedagogy that prioritizes identity-based division over individual merit or shared American values" or "Inculcating LGBTQ+ ideology...or requiring affirmation of LGBTQ+ sexuality as ethical or normative." is also banned. /9

"Compelling students to adopt "critical consciousness" by requiring them to identify personal or societal "oppressors" and "oppressed" through lenses derived from Marxist analysis, intersectionality, or critical race theory"/8

Total ban on "Teaching or advocating that American societal structures, including the U.S. Constitution or legal system, are inherently illegitimate or designed to perpetuate oppression based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or other identity categories" but also /7

"No public school, school district, or public employee acting in an official capacity shall engage in the pedagogy, praxis, or inculcation of critical theories or related practices that promote division, dialectical world-views, critical consciousness, or anti-constitutional indoctrination." /6

Diversity=violence: "'Culturally relevant'...pedagogies build barriers to...a unifying American culture by emphasizing group identities over shared national values, thereby establishing permanent, balkanized subcultures that are exploited by demagogues towards revolutionary and violent ends." /5

"These practices and praxis can indoctrinate students by compelling adherence to these world-views, undermining objective learning and unity, and undermining the ultimate right of parents..." Praxis? Objective unity? The parents rights stuff sets the stage for the teeth of the bill - civil suits. /4

It then notes Hegel, Marx, Freire, Ladson-Billings, and Crenshaw "promote purposeful division by framing society through lenses of inherent oppression, liberation narratives of overthrowing systems and hierarchies, systemic inequity based on identity groups, or anti-constitutional narratives." /3

It begins "Education should cultivate a neutral or patriotic disposition...without compelling total ideological allegiance." It immediately violates this principle by banning teaching that "cultivates" a "hostile or revolutionary disposition against the founding of America" or the Constitution. /2

NH GOP just dropped the most bonkers K-12 thought control bill yet. It is a greatest hits of all the worst ideas. The worst part is that at bills first hearing a GOP rep suggested amending it to apply to higher Ed too! Here is a sampler of its Orwellian ideas: 1/
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It’s Time to Teach Civic Literacy | National Review A good program in Texas is hoping to make a difference.

The NR says civics is needed because "progressives who dominate our faculties" teach that the Constitution was "written by racists to protect their power." So the founders weren't racist and tossing the Articles of Conf. had nothing to do with class power? www.nationalreview.com/corner/its-t...