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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“Today, Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) released a new report exposing how antisemitism and radical activism have made their way into K-12 classrooms and the nation's largest teachers union.”
edworkforce.house.gov/news/d…,
"America’s primary and secondary schools have become targets of foreign influence campaigns."
fdd.org/analysis/foreign-fun…
"It is highly problematic that an organization with CAIR’s documented history has been accepted as an interlocutor by school districts and state education officials on politically sensitive questions."
extremism.gwu.edu/long-game
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Cornell has long been criticized as an academic echo chamber with few conservative and libertarian professors. Now, the faculty has completed a self-study and found...wait for it...that there really are no concrete measures needed to address their overwhelming ideological bias. jonathanturley.org/2026/10/2…
If Poul Anderson had written a novel about Avalon and the Terran Empire fighting Merseia, it would be something like US-Israeli cooperation nowadays.
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🧵The number of humanities dissertations produced annually has declined by almost half, according to a new analysis.
The same report shows that language related to power and identity surged while treatments of “Western,” “European,” and “American” turned increasingly negative.
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In today's @AcademicRenewal article, @J_Gould_ writes that a North Carolina businesses embrace AI, colleges need to pay attention to what they want from graduates. Third in our joint AI series with @NASorg.: jamesgmartin.center/2026/10/…
“The last figure of all was the most interesting
— a woman even more richly dressed than the others, very tall (but
every figure in that room was taller than the people of our world), with
a look of such fierceness and pride that it took your breath away.” — The Magician’s Nephew
X induces mildest flicker of interest to see the inside of a gym. But laziness > prurience, so will just have to rely on the accuracy of social media.
“Teaching introductions and teaching surveys is why you should spend your life as a professor. This should be your true vocation.”
mindingthecampus.org/2026/10…
"Where only a sole programmatic accreditor is recognized, that private entity becomes an exclusive gatekeeper to licensure. These gatekeepers impose their own ideological agendas and can even raise the degree requirements for entire professions."
ciceroinstitute.org/wp-conte…
Ruth Draper and Charles Reznikoff: two under-remembered recorders of Old America. What would be a good complement? -- some of Edward Arlington Robinson poems, perhaps?
The US alliance with Saudi
Arabia has underpinned the world economy since 1943. If we can’t or won’t defend it anymore, that matters more than anything else happening in the Middle East.
David Randall retweeted
From the Second Inaugural to Rubio in Athens to this declaration of Columbus Day, some of the most consistent rhetorical notes of the Trump Administration have been the spirit of adventure, exploration, vitality, dynamism, pushing the boundaries.
whitehouse.gov/presidential-…
Just finished Charles Reznikoff's "Testimony." Extraordinary, unique. Hundreds of American law cases, 1885-1915, boiled down into 500 pages of crystalline free verse. Brutal, but still humane. I want everyone in the country to read this as a required text--tho so dour, unlikely.
I'm hardly the first person to discover him. Here's a non-paywalled review:
brickmag.com/the-review-test…
