historian of US colleges and universities | RESISTANCE FROM THE RIGHT @UNC_Press, 2023 | host of American Campus Podcast
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22 Aug 2023
It’s pub day!!!…
and I just got a message that RESISTANCE FROM THE RIGHT is already SOLD OUT ON AMAZON! You can still order from UNC Press, B&N, Target, Bookshop, and a few other places online
This is just.. 😭🫶
uncpress.org/book/9781469674…
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It’s not going to be possible to erase this from Chomsky’s legacy and people shouldn’t sacrifice their own reputations trying.
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Let's not look a gift horse in the mouth. jewishcurrents.org/higher-ed…
Pentagon says it will cut academic ties with Harvard University reut.rs/4adUuTv reut.rs/4adUuTv
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Feb 6
This wasn’t even true when I graduated college in 2009
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zoomers dont realize that until 2020 it was totally financially feasible to afford a 2 bedroom to yourself with no roommates in most major cities on a very mid job
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24 Sep 2025
Excited to hear Kent State University Press’s director, Clara Totten, on the American Campus Podcast, where she talks with @llassabe about the meaning and value of university-press publishing. patreon.com/posts/future-of-…
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16 Sep 2025
📣 liberals only understand aesthetics
16 Sep 2025
For @thenation, I wrote about the trend of young Democratic candidates attempting to duplicate the aesthetics of the Zohran campaign, without the ideological foundation, economic populism, or authenticity that made it successful.
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Does the entertainment industry know that it’s next after media and education?
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13 Sep 2025
Every time I come across some fascinating research on college history the author is affiliated with a conservative think tank lmao
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13 Sep 2025
There is A GIGANTIC CHASM of leftist scholarship on the academy itself outside of the 1960s and like, our current moment
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13 Sep 2025
Ask to see the campus yearbook from 1890 or something. What was going on. Something that will blow your mind I bet. Come back and tell us about it.
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12 Sep 2025
acquiring the brand assets, mournfully
12 Sep 2025
Ben Shapiro has announced that his media company The Daily Wire will be taking control of Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA.
Community note
Caption is false—this announcement doesn’t appear in this clip or anywhere in Ben Shapiro’s video.
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12 Sep 2025
Wondering if anyone has thoughts about how this statistic intersects with the inherent value of human life and the unconditional unacceptability of violence
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This diva
12 Sep 2025
Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure.
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Trump on Charlie Kirk: "Oh, when I heard it? I was in the midst of building a great -- for 150 years they've wanted a ballroom at the White House, right? They have to use tents for President Xi when he comes over. If it rains, it's a wipeout. And so I was with the architects ... "
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12 Sep 2025
aesthetics are more important to liberals than material reality because they are not materially harmed by our reality but offended by its aesthetics
11 Sep 2025
Seeing sections of that Ezra Klein piece has me feeling completely insane. I genuinely cannot comprehend, not even a little bit, what liberals think is going on
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11 Sep 2025
the liberal writer impulse to empathize with the least empathetic party in any situation has long ceased to be an exercise in compassion or humility, it is almost always a way for people to indulge in fantasies of being the most level-headed benevolent person in the room
11 Sep 2025
Seeing sections of that Ezra Klein piece has me feeling completely insane. I genuinely cannot comprehend, not even a little bit, what liberals think is going on
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10 Sep 2025
that horrific footage is the same thing that happens to children at school, btw.
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10 Sep 2025
mfs be like “if you haven't heard back in 5 months assume we’re not interested” and expect to go to heaven
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