Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars and Executive Director of the Civics Alliance. Fan of Montaigne, Austen, Bellamy, and Lafferty.
Joined March 2023
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The promise and peril of AI: I just typed in this search term into Google: "create a syllabus for an undergraduate college course using from dawn to decadence as the textbook with appropriate primary sources"
Try it yourself!
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It's not bad. Useful to have this, terrifying that -- well, will anyone actually bother to take the course and do the reading?
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"Education reformers are needed to fill thousands of higher-ed administrative positions across the United States. ... 16,000 education reformers [are] needed just to lead the public universities in the more tradition-minded half of the country."
americanmind.org/memo/dei-by…
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"We should work, in the first instance, both within and without the academy, to rescind every aspect of the disparate-impact doctrine."
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"George Mason ... arrived at Williamsburg and unveiled a draft Declaration of Rights that “swallowed up” all other contenders. The Convention approved the Virginia Declaration of Rights on June 12, 1776."
amrev250.substack.com/p/the-…
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David Randall retweeted
Jun 11
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Ann Manov has a big essay in the next issue of Harper’s on the new civics programs popping up at various universities around the country. I imagine that it will get a lot of attention.
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David Randall retweeted
Jun 11
The Mellon Foundation just spent $1.5M to help the American Association of University Professors’ Isaac Kamola “name and shame” and delegitimize the new classical civics schools at UF and UT Austin—rare outposts of sanity teaching Western civ and viewpoint diversity inside otherwise leftist-dominated universities. John Sailer reports:
city-journal.org/article/mel…
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“Let us see Diermeier and Martin show that the internal reform strategy actually will do something to improve the state of scholarship. Until they do, the internal reform strategy is all hat and no cattle.”
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If JD Vance ever became Attorney General, he could use the Twitter handle "JD@JD".
Just sayin'.
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"We may still need a Butlerian Jihad to eliminate AI from the world. But it’s worth thinking about how we can use AI in bureaucracy, especially the education bureaucracy, to reduce fraud, inefficiency, and culpable noncompliance with the law."
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"Disparate impact doctrine is conceptually flawed and counterproductive. It undermines both equal treatment under law and economic mobility (for workers of all races) by propping up artificial college degree barriers to employment."
americafirstpolicy.com/issue…
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"Justice Department Concludes EEOC Disparate-Impact Guidelines Violate the Constitution"
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"A recent report exposes the concerning ways in which the Chinese Communist Party has leveraged the University of California system to shape California’s climate and energy policies."
thefederalist.com/2026/06/08…
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Must read: "The evangelical college system that emerged after World War II is structurally finished. ... The conditions that made these institutions possible have changed, and most of them are not coming back."
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David Randall retweeted
Jun 7
My colleague @DavidRandallNAS has written a lovely essay for @NASorg's American Revolution series, "By Committee." Please give it a read and share.
On this day in 1776, Richard Henry Lee introduced the resolution that lit the fuse for American independence. @DavidRandallNAS
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"Officer Jeannette explained that these quick interactions humanize cops and dissolve the invisible barriers between us and them. Trust is restored, bit by bit, with a smile, wave or handshake."
cleveland.com/opinion/2026/0…
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David Randall retweeted
Jun 5
NEW: a report from Vanderbilt and WashU just dropped, taking on the "state of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences," a big topic among critics of higher ed.
Read along w/ me 🧵
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"Putting the new civic centers in charge of the design and teaching of classic graduation requirements is next phase of higher education reform."
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"Iowa makes history, and civics, great again"
desmoinesregister.com/story/…
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"Iowa’s Governor and legislature rightly recognized that Iowa higher education needed reform—and now they have passed into law a thoughtful, well-tailored bill to achieve that aim."
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