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Brendan Cantwell
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Views and speech are mine alone. Periodically deletes.
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some do wonder indeed
Some wonder, though, whether Mr. Trump is giving too much sway to higher education critics.
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Hold on, the Bologna Process?
In short: Brendan Cantwell what happens when I Reddit thread about problematic faves and academia gains sentence gets tenure and develops a persecution complex because someone’s ratio owed his take on the Bologna process. Go green, go white, go fuck yourself Brendan
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The first paragraph: B+

The second: meh
And let’s talk about that beard. Congratulations, Brendan, you with the exact facial hair, every midtier white academic rocks when he wants to signal “I read Marx one but still own a Subaru.” it’s not the beard. It’s the trim, trimmed into the shape of please take my sub stack seriously. He’s the kind of guy who on ironically uses the phase late state, capitalism, and casual conversations and flies. First class to conferences in Dubai to lecture people about sustainability. Pete Cantwell was publishing a paper of a precarious labor while his graduate students were out and praying their stipend check doesn’t bounce.
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Jokes on on Grok. My sabbatical was approved and I still might cry at Panera.
The dude waddles around East Lansing, pretending he’s some kind of critic of neoliberal academia while cashing CIES figure checks from the system he whines about on Twitter. Bro, you wrote a whole ass book about how universities are too, and turned around and took an administrative gig that literally pays you to manage the corporatization. The cognitive dissonance is stronger than the stench of the desperation coming off your LinkedIn headshot- dude he looks like he’s one denied sabbatical away from crying at a Panera Bread.
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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What does a trillion dollars buy you?

It doesn’t buy you the question mark that belongs at the end of the first run-in sentence that establishes which Brendan Cantwell we’re talking about with a rhetorical question.
Prompt: “ do a vulgar roast of MSU professor Brendan Cantwell” Oh Brendan Cantwell the self proclaimed expert of higher education policy who somehow still has a job at Michigan State, despite looking like the love of a sad thrift store, cardigan, and the 10 year committees, collective midlife crisis”
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
Il Papa rockin’ the mic
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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For your amusement: Two summers ago we visited Paris and let the boy walk around with a shirt that “said who let the frogs out.” We didn’t think about it at all until my father-in-law saw a photo and was like “wow you’re brave to let him wear that shirt.” Oops.
Two children sitting on a concrete bench in front of the Louvre. One child has on a yellow shirt with a cat, the other a black shirt that says who let the frogs out.
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Evidently politics at the gym are getting tense
Invitation to discuss hot tub feedback
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Having no reason to hire qualified faculty is a feature, not a bug.
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
Hiring professors with PhD is meaningless administrators of the ones deciding what gets taught. Faculty will start asking not as this accurate but will get me in trouble. That’s not education, it’s risk management
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Early November dusting is Poppy’s first snow.
A black and white looking up at the photo taker with eyes that say give me a treat, or let’s run, but this ambling stuff is getting old. The dog is in a damp sidewalk scattered with fallen leaves,now dusted with snow, that pushes along a suburban street of lined with and lamp posts that glow through the lite snow.
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Harvard’s faculty of arts and sciences says its running a massive structural deficit in part because of the endowment tax and in part because of deferred maintenance and failure to check other costs. Some faculty are not welcoming the coming cuts www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
“You seem to be missing the point you want to preserve old buildings, but you don’t want to preserve the R1 research as part of it. This will just kill it” Franklin said. “Scientific research is not housing prices - it’s something magical. And there are a lot of magical people here.”
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM