It’s the 1920s all over again
Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
www.nytimes.com
Hearing from professors, historians, college and seminary courses👇
“Fascinating”
“I really enjoyed your book”
“Terrific book that helped me understand my own churchly disillusionments”
“It’s their favorite reading”
“Fascinating”
“I really enjoyed your book”
“Terrific book that helped me understand my own churchly disillusionments”
“It’s their favorite reading”
“When knowledge gets in the way of profits, destroy knowledge.”
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Michel Foucault was born on this day all of his investigations into the relations of power and knowledge would have never prepared him for our new episteme of powerful people getting away with saying stupid stuff.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/05/do-y...
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/05/do-y...
Do Your Own Damn Research: The New Episteme of Trump 2.0
www.unemployednegativity.com
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I spoke with @insidehighered.com
@kathrynpalmer.bsky.social about OSU’s decision to cancel conference funds for racially marginalized students.
@kathrynpalmer.bsky.social about OSU’s decision to cancel conference funds for racially marginalized students.
Under Anti-DEI Pressure, Ohio State Limits Conference Funds
The Education Department recently criticized Ohio State University’s involvement with a nonprofit that encourages people from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue doctorates. Now, OSU is rethinking ...
www.insidehighered.com
NEW BOOK on Post-Nazi Germany
How Protestant theologians, intellectuals, and activists reconstructed West German national identity and secular democracy by relying upon an older language of religious concepts stemming from Protestant theology and political thought 👇
How Protestant theologians, intellectuals, and activists reconstructed West German national identity and secular democracy by relying upon an older language of religious concepts stemming from Protestant theology and political thought 👇
When Theology Became Political: An Interview with Brandon Bloch
by Jacob Saliba
www.jhiblog.org
Dialogue between Senators Amy Klobuchar and Thom Tillis, facilitated by Doug Hicks, President of Davidson College @davidsoncollege.bsky.social
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"No university can present every possible outlook in equal measure, nor should it." thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/10/10/s...
Should a university provide a platform for “every perspective”?
Davidson College sociologist Gerardo Marti reflects on Donald Trump’s “compact” with higher education institutions. Here is a taste of his piece at Inside Higher Education: ……
thewayofimprovement.blog
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Opinion | Curators of Knowledge, Not Chaos
Universities cannot—and should not—platform every perspective, Gerardo Martí writes. https://bit.ly/3KK8CuU
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Universities cannot—and should not—platform every perspective, Gerardo Martí writes. https://bit.ly/3KK8CuU
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
“At the center of this struggle lies a persistent illusion: that the university should provide a platform for ‘every perspective.’ The mission of higher education is more demanding: to cultivate, critique & transmit knowledge while attending to perspectives that have shaped history and public life.”
Universities Are Curators of Knowledge, Not Chaos (opinion)
Universities cannot—and should not—platform every perspective, Gerardo Martí writes.
www.insidehighered.com
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Should a university provide a platform for “every perspective”?
Davidson College sociologist Gerardo Marti reflects on Donald Trump's "compact" with higher education institutions. Here is a taste of his piece at Inside Higher Education: ...a proposed “compact” with higher education…
Davidson College sociologist Gerardo Marti reflects on Donald Trump's "compact" with higher education institutions. Here is a taste of his piece at Inside Higher Education: ...a proposed “compact” with higher education…
Should a university provide a platform for “every perspective”?
Davidson College sociologist Gerardo Marti reflects on Donald Trump's "compact" with higher education institutions. Here is a taste of his piece at Inside Higher Education: ...a proposed “compact” with higher education institutions would seek to condition federal funding on requirements that colleges ensure a “broad spectrum of viewpoints” in each academic department and that they abolish “institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas.”
thewayofimprovement.blog
Leadership of the State Senate in Virginia have sent a detailed letter to UVA leadership to reject The Compact.
In case you missed it 👇
“…when spiritual conviction claims civic authority, how should a democracy respond?”
“…when spiritual conviction claims civic authority, how should a democracy respond?”
Leveraging Belief
In the canon of American innovation, Joseph Smith stands alongside Edison, Bell, and the Wright brothers—not for technology, but for theology.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
“While Democrats are brandishing thermometers, Republicans power up flamethrowers.”
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
open.substack.com
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Fun facts:
Charles Shultz was my ice skating coach when I was a kid 🥰 He was truly one of the kindest souls. And yes, I had a Dorothy Hamill haircut.
Charles Shultz was my ice skating coach when I was a kid 🥰 He was truly one of the kindest souls. And yes, I had a Dorothy Hamill haircut.
An expansive 10-point memo, the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, a wide-ranging set of terms the administration says are intended to elevate university standards & performance. Universities that sign on will get “multiple positive benefits.”
WSJ 👉 apple.news/AJw8ckda3Q5-...
WSJ 👉 apple.news/AJw8ckda3Q5-...
“Spiritual Warfare”👇
“The proliferation of this kind of language is a sign of the growing momentum of a movement often known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which has become the vanguard of the broader Christian right, and whose ideas Kirk had begun to embrace before his death.”
“The proliferation of this kind of language is a sign of the growing momentum of a movement often known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which has become the vanguard of the broader Christian right, and whose ideas Kirk had begun to embrace before his death.”
Charlie Kirk and the ‘Third Great Awakening’
MAGA is embracing the language of a rising Christian movement.
www.theatlantic.com
“Neoliberalism and Race shows that racial themes have always pervaded neoliberal thinking… neoliberal thought is constitutively racialized—its racial motifs cannot be extracted from neoliberalism without rendering it theoretically and politically incoherent.”
Neoliberalism and Race | Stanford University Press
Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Using the methods of intellectual history and drawing on insights from critical race studi...
www.sup.org