• Marshall Steinbaum and David Austin Walsh. 2026. How America’s Public Universities Stopped Being Public. Hedgehog Review.
• Robert A. Nesbit. 1996. The Degradation of the Academic Dogma. Routledge.
• Zachary Bleemer and Aashish Mehta. December 2024. College Major Restrictions and Student Stratification. National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Maya Rosen. October 11, 2026. Degrees of Separation. Jewish Currents. 
• Anna Perez. 2023. Understanding Zionism: History and Perspectives. Fortress Press.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night.
• Theodore Dreiser. Jennie Gerhardt.
• Molly Crabapple. 2026. Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. One World.
• Mark Weitzman, Robert J Williams, James Wald, eds. 2025. The Routledge History of Antisemitism. Routledge.
• Marshall Steinbaum on Twitter @econ_Marshall and his website, marshallsteinbaum.org
• David Austin Walsh’s email daw6a@virginia.edu

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• Karen Weaver. 2026. Understanding College Athletics: What Campus Leaders Need to Know About College Sports. Johns Hopkins University Press. 
• Karen Weaver. 2025. Sport Finance: Where the Money Comes From and Where the Money Goes, 2nd ed. Kendall Hunt.
• W Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. 2026. The Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant. Harvard Business Review Press.
• Trustees and Presidents Managing Intercollegiate Athletics podcast on YouTube
• Karen Weaver’s website, Instagram, Bluesky, LinkedIn

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• Emily Eakin. 2026. The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory. Penguin Press.
• Sarah Bakewell books
• Ross Douthat. November 2, 2022. How the Right Became the Left and the Left Became the Right. New York Times.
• James Miller. 2010. The Passion of Michel Foucault. Harvard University Press.
• John Guillory and Merve Emre. 2023. Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. University of Chicago Press.
• Meghan O’Gieblyn. 2026. Will and Attention: A Memoir. Doubleday.
• Emily Eakin’s website, essays at NYT, Instagram

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• Peter Burke. 2026. The Connoisseur: A Cultural History. Reaktion Books. 
• Gore Vidal. 2000. Burr: A Novel. Vintage Books.
• Peter Burke’s website

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• Chad Wellmon. 2016. Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Chad Wellmon. 2026. After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work. Johns Hopkins University Press. 
• Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon. 2023. Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age. University of Chicago Press.
• The Other University episode with Chad Wellmon.
• Ann M. Blair. 2011. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age. Yale University Press.
• Frank Landymore. February 23, 2026. New AI Agent Logs Directly Into College Platform Canvas to Do Your Homework for You. Futurism.
• Daniel Mendelsohn, trans. 2026. The Odyssey. University of Chicago Press.
• Jonathan Lear. 2008. Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation. Harvard University Press.
• Dennis Duncan. 2023. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age. W. W. Norton.
• What Was the Internet? Boston Review. August 2026.
• Follow Chad on Twitter @cwellmon
• Chadwellmon.com

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• James Chandler. 2026. The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning. Prickly Paradigm Press. 
• Robert Mackey. April 18, 2026. Trump’s antipathy for Pope may have roots in childhood Protestant church. The Guardian.
• Alexis de Tocqueville. Democracy in America.
• Wendy Brown. 2017. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution. Zone Books.
• Sam Moyn 2024. Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times. Yale University Press.
• Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations.
• Tyler G. Anbinder. 1994. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s. Oxford University Press
• Laura K. Field. 2025. Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right. Princeton University Press.
• Jennifer Pitts. Kayfabe, Trolling, Satire, and Cynicism. Prickly Paradigm Press blog.
• Richard Hofstadter. 1966. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. Vintage.
• Thorstein Veblen. 1918. The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men. Open Access PDF.
• American Campus episodes on Thorstein Veblen and with Laura Field on Furious Minds.

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• Trevor Griffey. 2007. “The Strongest Chapter in WA: Bellingham's KKK.” The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project.
• Allan J. Lichtman. 2008. White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement. Grove Press.
• Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925)
• Lothrop Stoddard Wiki
• Perlstein’s mea culpa: Rick Perlstein. April 11, 2017. I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong. New York Times Magazine.
• On MAGA small business owners and car dealers: Alexander Sammon. May 30, 2023. Want to Stare Into the Republican Soul in 2023? Slate. 
• Higher Ed Labor (in California and Beyond) Substack
• Follow Trevor on Twitter, BlueSky
• https://x.com/trevorgriffey/status/2080041013507510403?s=46 

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• Kim Phillips-Fein. 2026. Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America. W. W. Norton.
• Kim Phillips-Fein. 2018. Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics. Picador.
• Kim Phillips-Fein. 2010. Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal. W. W. Norton.
• Corey Robin. 2018. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Endmund Burke to Donald Trump, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press. Open access PDF. 
• Richard Herrnstein. 1971.  “i.q.” The Atlantic.
• Pioneer Fund, the dark money trust that won't let race science die American Campus episode with John P. Jackson Jr.
• Victor S. Navasky. 2003. Naming Names. Hill and Wang.
• Thomas Mann. 1996. Magic Mountain. Vintage.
• Anna Veltfort. 2019. Goodbye, My Havanna: The Life and Times of a Gringa in Revolutionary Cuba. Redwood Press.
• Kim Phillips-Fein’s faculty page
• kimphillipsfein.com

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• Sveinn M. Jóhannesson. 2026. The Scientific-Military State: How Enlightened Engineers Reinvented Early American Government. University of Chicago Press. 
• James McNeill Whistler. 1879. Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (known as Portrait of the Artist’s Mother) painting.
• Livy’s History of Rome
• Tacitus The Annals of Imperial Rome
• Sveinn M. Jóhannesson’s website

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• Christian J. Churchill and Gerald Levy. 2011. The Enigmatic Academy: Class, Bureaucracy, and Religion in American Education. Temple University Press. 
• Thorstein Veblen. 1918. The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men. PDF.
• Thorstein Veblen. 1899. The Theory of the Leisure Class. PDF.
• On Google’s former motto, “Don’t be evil.”
• Know Your Meme: “Wait. Is this f****** play about us?”
• Arthur J Vidich and Joseph Bensman. 2000. Small Town in Mass Society: Class, Power, and Religion in a Rural Community. University of Illinois Press.
• Hannah Arendt. The Origins of Totalitarianism.
• Tragedy of the education commons episode with Guy Standing
• Herbert Blumer. 1986. Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method. University of California Press.
• Peter Gould. 2026. Part for the Whole. Whetstone Publishing.
• John Williams. Stoner.
• Elizabeth Cotton. 2025. Ubertherapy: The New Business of Mental Health. Bristol University Press.
• christianjchurchill.com 
• Jerry Levy’s faculty page

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• Joshua R. Eyler. 2024. Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do About It. Johns Hopkins University Press. 
• Josh Eyler. February 26, 2024. The Origin of Grades in American Schools. Saturday Evening Post.
• Adam Laats. 2024. Mr. Lancaster’s System: The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Victor Hugo. Les Miserables.
• Follow Josh on LinkedIn and Bluesky
• Josh Eyler’s faculty page, email Josh at jreyler@olemiss.edu 

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• Amy Laura Hall. 2026. Erecting the Pulpit: Muscular Christianity from Teddy Roosevelt to Donald Trump. Bloomsbury.
• Theodore Roosevelt. 1899. The Strenuous Life speech.
• From the vault: [Lawrence] Wright talks to Alec Baldwin about Scientology and Tom Cruise. October 10, 2022.
• Darren Dochuk. 2019. Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America. Basic Books.
• Bethany Moreton. 2010. To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Harvard University Press.
• Daneil Silliman. 2021. An Evangelical Is Anyone Who Likes Billy Graham: Defining Evangelicalism with Carl Henry and Networks of Trust. Church History, 90(3): 621-643.
• Darren E. Grem. 2014. Christianity Today: J. Howard Pew, and the Business of Conservative Evangelicalism. Enterprise and Society, 15(2): 337-379.
• Ahmanson family’s Institute on Religion and Democracy Wiki
• Adam Laats’s research on K12 schools 
• Geoffrey Canada’s Wiki 
• Waiting for Superman trailer on IMDB
• Dana Goldstein. September 23, 2010. Grading Waiting for Superman. The Nation.
• Julie A. Webber. 2002. Failure to Hold: The Politics of School Violence. Rowman & Littlefield.
• Frank Deford. September 8, 2010. Football Fans Ignore Increasing Violence. NPR.
• Audre Lorde. 1982. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. Crossing Press.
• Ayoush Lazikani. 2025. Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing. Yale University Press.
• Amy Laura Hall’s faculty page, Twitter, Bluesky

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• Ira Halpern. 2026. Imagining Health: Medicine, Social Protest, and Modern American Literature. University of Massachusetts Press.
• Abraham Flexner. 1910. Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
• Regina Kunzel. 2024. In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life. University of Chicago Press.
• Ivan Illich. 2000. Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis - The Expropriation of Health. Marion Boyars Publishers.
• Ira Halpern’s faculty page

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• Xiaochang Li. 2026. Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Making of Algorithmic Culture. University of Chicago Press.
• Anil Seth. July 15, 2026. “Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts.” The Guardian.
• Paul Kockelman. 2024. Last Words: Large Language Model and the AI Apocalypse. Prickly Paradigm Press.
• Lief Weatherby. 2025. Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism. University of Minnesota Press.
• Carlo Ginzburg. 2026. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller, 50th anniversary edition. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Kate Crawford. 2022. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press.
• Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones. 2024. How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms. W. W. Norton.
• Christopher Manning and Hinrich Schütze. 2026. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. MIT Press.
• Danial Jurafsky and James Martin. 2026. Speech and Language Processing.
• Xiaochang Li’s faculty page and @xiaochang@bsky.social

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• Guy Standing. 2026. Human Capital:  The Tragedy of the Education Commons. Penguin Press. 
• “Linda McMahon slaps her daughter Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley: RAW IS WAR, Apr. 17, 2000”
• Nafeez Ahmed, Peter Jukes,  and Hardeep Matharu. July 9, 2026. Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK’s Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed. Byline Times.
• Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. 2011. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change. Bloomsbury.
• Ralph Wilson and Isaac Kamola. 2021. Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War. Pluto Press.
• Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff. 2026. Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. Harper.
• Hannah Arendt. The Human Condition.
• Guy Standing. 2021. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class Special Covid-19 Edition. IB Taurus & Co.
• Guy Standing. 2023. The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea. Pelican.
• Guy Standing’s website

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• Matthew C. Ehrlich. 2021. Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK. University of Illinois Press.
• Matthew C. Ehrlich. 2024. The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine. University of Illinois Press.
• Pseudoscience and the ethics of academic medicine episode with Matthew C. Ehrlich
• Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth. 2022. It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Mary Anne Franks. 2024. Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment. Bold Type Books.
• Beware of FIRE (and institutional neutrality) episode with Mary Anne Franks
• Jacob Holmes. June 9, 2026. “Auburn board takes control of curricula, dissolves faculty senate.” Alabama Political Reporter.
• Thomas Milan Konda. 2019. Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America. University of Chicago Press.
• John Durham Peters. 2020. Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition. University of Chicago Press.
• Jim Windolf. 2026. Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other—and the World. Scribner.
• Matthew C. Ehrlich’s faculty page

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• Zak Foste and Lauren N. Irwin. 2026. Disrupting White Noise: Challenging Beliefs about Race on Campus. Harvard Education Press. CODE FOR 20% OFF: HCPR26  
• Elijah Anderson. 2023. Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life. University of Chicago Press.
• Beverly Daniel Tatum. 2025. Peril and Promise: College Leadership in Turbulent Times. Basic Books.
• Sarah J. Mass. 2023. Throne of Glass. Bloomsbury.
• Colin Diver. 2022. Breaking Ranks: How the Rankings Industry Rules Higher Education and What to Do about It. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Follow Lauren N. Irwin and Zak Foste on LinkedIn

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• Alexander D. Hyres. 2026. Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville’s Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School. University of Georgia Press. 
• Alex Hyres’s faculty page
• Heather Andrea Williams. 2007. Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. University of North Carolina Press.
• James D. Anderson. 1988. Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. University of North Carolina Press. 
• Jarvis R. Givens. 2023. Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching. Harvard University Press.
• Vanessa Siddle Walker. 1996. Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South. University of North Carolina Press.
• School Yearbook: A Cringey Tradition and Its Digital Afterlife episode with Kate Eichhorn 
• Scott Anderson. 2025. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation. Doubleday.
• Instagram @hyres376 Bluesky @hyres376.bsky.social, linktree 

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• Chad Wellmon. 2026. After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work. Johns Hopkins University Press. 
• Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon. 2023. Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age. University of Chicago Press.
• Chad Wellmon. 2016. Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Bavarian L. Baldwin. 2021. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities. Bold Type Books.
• David S. Busch. 2025. Disciplining Democracy: How the Modern American University Transformed Student Activism. Cornell University Press.
• Matteo Pasquinelli. 2023. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence. Verso.
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Phenomenology of Perception.
• Sean Keilen. 2026. Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts. Princeton University Press.
• Chadwellmon.com

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• Samuel Moyn. 2026. Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Samuel Moyn. April 23, 2026. Professors Are Too Old: The Academy’s Gerontocracy Problem is Worse than Anyone Admits. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti. 2023. The Stronghold. NYRB Classics.
• Nazmul Sultan. 2024. Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought. Harvard University Press.
• Samuel Moyn’s faculty page
• Follow Sam on X, The Everything App, @samuelmoyn

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• Jesse Bering. 2026. The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson: One Scientist's Epic Quest for Evidence of Reincarnation, Apparitions, Poltergeists, and Other Matters of the Soul. University of Chicago Press.
• Jesse Bering’s website
• Bering in Mind Substack

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• Emmaia Gelman. 2026. The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State. University of California Press. 
• Alice Speri. April 24, 2026. US universities are seeing an influx of ‘antisemitism centers’. Some Jewish scholars are worried. The Guardian.
• Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. May 7, 2025. Old Project, New Vehicle: Conservative Civics and Leadership Institutes in Historical Context. Frontiers of American Reaction.
• Sabri Jiryis. 2025. Foundations of Zionism, translated by Fida Jiryis. Ebb Books.
• Rana Barakat. 2026. Ongoing Return: Mapping Memory and Storytelling in Palestine. University of North Carolina Press.
• Emmaia Gelman’s website
• Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism website
• Peer-Reviewed Journal: JCSZ
• Instagram: @institutecsz
• Podcast: Unpacking Zionism
• Follow Emmaia Gelman on Instagram and Bluesky

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• Curtis Dozier. 2026. The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate. Yale University Press. 
• Why white nationalists love Plato with Curtis Dozier
• Anders Stephanson. 2025. American Imperatives: The Cold War and Other Measures. Verso.
• Naoíse Mac Sweeney. 2023. The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives. Dutton.
• Stephen Graham Jones. 2021. The Only Good Indians. S&S/Saga Press.
• Dozier’s website, Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics, Pharos on Facebook
• Curtis Dozier on BlueSky

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• Marc Spooner and James McNinch, eds. 2026. Knowledge Under Siege: Charting a Future for Universities. University of Regina Press. 
• Marc Spooner and James McNich, eds. 2018. Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education. University of Regina Press.
• Ellen Schrecker. 1986. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities.
• AAUP’s 1915 Declaration and 1940 Statement
• Michael Atzmon, John Cheney-Lippold, Gary D. Krenz, and Melanie S. Tanielian, eds. 2026. In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis. Disobedience Press.
• Brian Soucek. 2026. The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education. University of Chicago Press. 
• The Opinionated University episode with Brian Soucek 
• Creating the AAUP episode with Hank Reichman 
• Marc Spooner’s faculty page

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• The Wild Robot
• Hoppers
• Jonathan Hauser’s website and LinkedIn

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• Deborah E. Whaley. 2010. Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities. SUNY Press. 
• Twenty Pearls: The Story of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority documentary
• Stephanie Y. Evans. 2021. Black Women’s Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace. SUNY Press.
• Deborah Whaley’s website, faculty page, and on Instagram at @dewhaley and @afrovegan.in.the.world 

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• Emma Taylor. 2026. An Elite Education: How Privilege Is Produced in a Private School. Princeton University Press.
• Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison. 2020. The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged. Policy Press.
• Michael Foucault. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
• Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc J D Wacquant. 1992. An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. University of Chicago Press.
• Karen Gravett. 2024. Relational Pedagogies: Connections and Mattering in Higher Education. Bloomsbury Academic.
• Lauren White, Will Mason, Vicky Grant, Alison Romaine, Grace Cleary, and Shona Tulloch. April 2026. Towards a Pedagogy of Joy. British Journal of Sociology of Education.
• Emma Taylor’s LinkedIn

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• Dylan Gottlieb. 2026. Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York. Harvard University Press. 
• Sam Tanenhaus. 2025. Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. Penguin Random House. 
• God and Man at Yale episode with Sam Tanenhaus
• Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism podcast
• Check out Dylan’s website and follow him on Bluesky and Twitter 

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• Austin McCoy. 2026. Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made. Simon and Schuster.
• De La Soul. 1989. Me, Myself, and I. 
• Flo Rida ft. T-Pain. 2009. Low (Apple Bottom Jeans). 
• Hip-Hop Evolution. Netflix.
• OutKast. 2000. B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad).
• Keith Jopling. 2026. Body of Work: How the Album Outplayed the Algorithm and Survived Playlist Culture. Repeater.
• Liz Pelly Mood Machine. 2025. Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist. Atria/One Signal Publishers.
• Austin McCoy’s website

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• AJA Woods. 2026. The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West. Verso Books. 
• Paul Hanebrink. 2020. A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism. Belknap.
• The Frankfurt School Comes to US episode with Jonathan Fine
• Matt Bernstein. May 15, 2026. The Tucker Carlson Problem (with Naomi Klein). A Bit Fruity.
• Anton Jäger. 2026. Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences. Verso.
• Julian Barnes. 2026. Departure(s). Knopf.
• Follow AJ on Twitter @adubwoods, Bluesky @ajawoods.bsky.social
• Anticapitalist Resistance Brighton on Instagram @acrbrighton

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• Marco Ramos’s faculty page
• Community Histories Lab Yale University Lab
• Laura Stark. 2012. Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Makings of Ethical Research. University of Chicago Press.
• Annika Norlin. 2025. The Colony (translated by Alice E Olsson). Europa Editions.
• Courtney E. Thompson and Kylie M. Smith, eds. 2025. Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians. Johns Hopkins University Press. 

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• David M. Perry. 2026. The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook. Johns Hopkins University Press. 
• Follow David on Bluesky @lollardfish.bsky.social 
• Read David at The Minnesota Star Tribune
• davidmperry.com
• Mark Twain. Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court.
• Center for Mark Twain Studies

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• Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer, eds. 2025. Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals since the 1960s. University of Chicago Press. 
• Brent Cebul. 2026. Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century. University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason B. Williams, eds. 2019. Shaped by The State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century. University of Chicago Press.
• Lily Geismer. 2022. Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality. PublicAffairs.
• Lily Geismer. 2017. Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party. Princeton University Press.
• Dylan Gottlieb. 2026. Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York. Harvard University Press.
• Molly Crabapple. 2026. Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. One World.
• Follow Lily on Twitter and Brent on Bluesky
• Lily and Brent’s new book series, America Unsettled: Political History for What Comes Next at the University of Chicago Press

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• Lisa M. Di Bartolomeo and Kevin M. Gannon, eds. 2026. The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity for the Rest of Us. SUNY Press. 
• Joshua R Eyler. 2024. Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do About It. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Jane Nam. May 23, 2924. Grade Inflation in College: Trends and Why It Happens. Best Colleges.
• Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files novel series.
• Kevin R. McClure. 2025. The Caring University: Reimagining the Higher Education Workplace After the Great Resignation. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Catherine J. Denial. 2024. A Pedagogy of Kindness. University of Oklahoma Press.
• Paulo Freire. 2021. Education for Critical Consciousness: With a New Introduction. Bloomsbury Academic.
• bell hooks. 1994. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Routledge.
• thetattooedprof.com
• Bluesky @thetattooedprof

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• God and Man at Yale episode with Sam Tanenhaus
• Why white nationalists love Plato episode with Curtis Dozier
• Allan Bloom. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students.
• George Lowery. April 16, 2009. A campus takeover that symbolized an era of change. Cornell Chronicle.
• Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. March 21, 2025. Attack on the Faculties. The Carryall.
• Michelle Alexander. 2020. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press.
• Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. 2024. They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. W. W. Norton.
• Saul Bellow. Ravelstein.
• Mark Hlavacik. 2025. Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars. University of Chicago Press. 
• Mark Hlavacik. 2016. Assigning Blame: The Rhetoric of Education Reform. Harvard University Press.
• Mark Hlavacik’s faculty page.

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• Higher Education Labor United website
• HELU May Day events map
• May Day Strong website
• Anne Balay. 2020. Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers. University of North Carolina Press. 
• Anne Balay. 2016. Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers. University of North Carolina Press. 
• AnneBalay.com

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• Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer. 2025. By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates. Columbia University Press.
• Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer's website
• Eléana Sanchez's website, HAL (open science platform in France), and Bluesky
• Jonathan Hauser's website
• Jon is watching Koh-Lanta
• Eléana is watching Rooster and listening to La dernière 
• Marwan Mohammed. 2026. C'était pas gagné !: De l'échec scolaire au CNRS, histoire d'une remontada. Seuil.
• Michael is playing Cities: Skylines and Cities: Skylines II
• R. F. Kuang. 2023. Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution. Harper Voyager.

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• Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer. 2025. By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates. Columbia University Press.
• Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer's website
• Eléana Sanchez's website, HAL (open science platform in France), and Bluesky
• Jonathan Hauser's website

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• Pentagon's Protestant-only Good Friday service fuels bias concerns. MSN.
• George Saunders. 2018. Lincoln in the Bardo. Random House.
• Mark A. Noll. 2022. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. William B. Eerdmans.
• Karen Swallow Prior. 2023.  The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis. Brazos. 
• Daniel Ruggles’s website
• Upon the Gears Substack
• Mario Savio’s Bodies Upon the Gears speech, UC Berkeley 1964

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• Alexandre Frenette. 2026. Blame the Intern: On (Not) Breaking Into the Creative Economy. Princeton University Press. 
• Alexandre Frenette’s faculty page
• John Wynn. 2025. The Set Up. Belt Publishing.
• Nina Bandelj. 2026. Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting. Princeton University Press.
• Alexandre Frenette on LinkedIn 

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• JonathanBeecherField.net 
• Scott Romine. 2024. The Zombie Memes of Dixie. University of Georgia Press.
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore. 2007. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. University of California Press.
• Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll, eds. 2019. Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy. West Virginia University Press.
• Jonathan Beecher Field. September 20, 2019. Got Shakespeare? Boston Review. 
• Phyllis Schlafly. October 3, 2007. Advice To College Students: Don’t Major In English. Eagle Forum.
• Nicole Hemmer. 2018. Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics. University of Pennsylvania Press.

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• Johanna Mellis faculty profile
• End of Sport podcast 
• Feminist Sport Lab
• Johanna Mellis in The Guardian and Los Angeles Times
• Rachel Reid. 2024. Game Changers. Carina Press. (Heated Rivalry book series)
• Pride and Prejudice 1995 BBC adaptation
• Instagram @JoJoMellis 

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• Scott M. Gelber. 2024. From Compensation to Accommodation: The History of Learning Disabilities in American Higher Education. History of Education Quarterly.
• Scott M. Gelber. 2020. Grading the College: A History of Evaluating Teaching and Learning. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Scott M. Gelber. 2015. Courtrooms and Classrooms: A Legal History of American College Access, 1860-1960. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Scott M. Gelber. 2011. The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest. University of Wisconsin Press.

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• Dwaipayan Banerjee. 2026. Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution. Princeton University Press. 
• Dwai Banerjee’s faculty page
• @dwai_banerjee on X, @dwaibanerjee on Instagram 

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• Danielle Casarez Lemi. 2026. Doing Identity Labor: How Mixed-Race Politicians Disrupt Descriptive Representation. Oxford University Press.
• Nadia E. Brown and Danielle Casarez Lemi. 2021. Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites. Oxford University Press.
• Kelly Clancy’s Epilogue Editing
• Maria Ressa. 2023. How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future. Harper Perennial.
• Real Housewives on Bravo
• 90 Day Fiance on TLC Go
• Danielle Casarez Lemi’s website, LinkedIn, and consulting 

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• John P. Jackson, Jr. 2005. Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown V. Board of Education. New York University Press. 
• John P. Jackson, Jr. 2001. Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case Against Segregation. New York University Press.
• John P. Jackson, Jr. books on bookshop.org
• John P. Jackson, Jr. website

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• Mark S. Ferrara. 2015. Palace of Ashes: China and the Decline of American Higher Education. Johns Hopkins University Press. 
• Tessa Hulls. 2025. Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Novel. Picador. 
• Olga Tokarczuk. 2025. House of Day, House of Night. Riverhead Books. 
• Daniel Biebuyck. 2021. The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga. The University of California Press. 
• Mark Ferrara’s faculty page

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• Curtis Dozier. 2026. The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate. Yale University Press. 
• Dozier’s website, Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics
• Dan-el Padilla Peralta. 2025. Classicism and Other Phobias. Princeton University Press.
• Jack Jenkins. 2021.American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country. HarperCollins.
• The X Files, Hulu
• Curtis Dozier on BlueSky: @curtisdozier.bsky.social
• Pharos on Facebook

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• John K. Wilson. February 19, 2026. Jesse Jackson and the Myth of the Stanford Chant. Inside Higher Ed.
• John K. Wilson. 1995. The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education. Duke University Press.
• Brian Soucek. 2026. The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education. University of Chicago Press.
• John Tomasi and Bernard Schweizer, eds. 2026. Viewpoint Diversity: What It Is, Why We Need It, and How to Get It. Heresy Press.
• John K. Wilson’s columns in Inside Higher Ed
• John K. Wilson on Twitter

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• Joshua Tait. January 12, 2026. “Stitching Banners to an Exiled King”: Triumph, Radical Traditionalism, and the Temptation of Despair. To Live is to Maneuver.
• Daniel J. Flynn. 2025. The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. Encounter Books.
• Tait’s To Live is To Maneuver newsletter
• The Associated Press. May 17, 2024. Conservative activist’s son sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison for ‘relentless’ attack on Capitol. POLITICO. 
• Darrin M. McMahon. 2002. Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. Oxford University Press.
• Midge Decter. 2001. An Old Wife’s Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War. William Morrow.
• Isaac Asimov. 1991. Foundation. Spectra.
• Arkady Martine. 2020. A Memory Called Empire. Tor Books.

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• Betty S. Anderson. 2011. The American University of Beirut: Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education. University of Texas Press.
• Betty Anderson’s faculty page

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• Alan Blinder. February 16, 2026. Epstein’s Ties With Academics Show the Seedy Side of College Fund-Raising. New York Times.
• William Callison and Quinn Slobodian. January 12, 2021. Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol. Boston Review.
• Melinda Cooper. February 14, 226. Epstein Family Values. Equator.
• Luke Darby. August 19, 2019. Private jets, parties and eugenics: Jeffrey Epstein's bizarre world of scientists. The Guardian.
• Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub. February 10, 2026. “Episode 121–Moira's in the Epstein Files.” In Bed with the Right podcast.
• Charlie Eaton. 2022. Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in Us Higher Education. University of Chicago Press.
• Francois Furstenberg. February 19, 2026. The Misuses of the University. Public Books.
• Virginia Heffernan. February 13, 2026. The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science. The Nerve.
• Brian Herman. February 20, 2026. Individual donors provide only a small slice of university research funding – but Jeffrey Epstein’s ties with academics show why screening matters. The Conversation.
• Andy Hines, ed. 2025. University Keywords. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Christopher Marquis. February 20, 2026. Why are so many academics in the Epstein files? It’s not just about money. The Guardian.
• Fred Turner. 2008. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. University of Chicago Press.
• Ramon Antonio Vargas. February 3, 2026. Newly released files shed new light on Chomsky and Epstein relationship. The Guardian.

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• Julie J. Park. 2026. Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era. Harvard Education Press. 
• Class Action website: joinclassaction.edu
• Ingrid A. Nelson. 2024. Yet Another Costume Party Debacle: Why Racial Ignorance Persists on Elite College Campuses. University of Chicago Press.
• Belle Burden. 2026. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage. The Dial Press.
• Julie J. Park’s website, faculty page, LinkedIn 
• College Admissions Futures Co-Laborative

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• Mark A. Torres. 2025. Long Island and the Legacy of Eugenics: Station of Intolerance. The History Press. 
• Rebecca Brenner Graham. 2025. Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany. Citadel.
• Mark Torres’s website marktorresauthor.com
• Follow Mark on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook @MarkTorresAuthor1

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• Hope Pisoni. February 18, 2026. Campus Conservatives See Resurgence in the Aftermath of Charlie Kirk. Uncloseted Media. 
• Hope Pisoni. January 30, 2026. Campus conservatism rebounds in the wake of Charlie Kirk, targeting LGBTQIA+ communities. Gay Times. 
• Strphany Matat. October 28, 2025. DeSantis warns schools, partners with Turning Point USA to create more Florida chapters. Tallahassee Democrat.
• Jaden Edison. December 8, 2025. Texas launches plan to open Turning Point USA chapters in every high school. Texas Tribune. 
• Robby Korth, Graycen Wheeler, Lionel Ramos, OPMX. September 23, 2025. State superintendent calls for Turning Point USA chapter at every high school in Oklahoma. KGOU.org.
• Uncloseted Media
• Hope Pisoni’s Substack
• Torrey Peters. 2021. Detransition, Baby. One World.
• Nakatani Nio. 2017. Bloom Into You. Seven Seas.

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• Julie L. Reed. 2026. Land, Language, and Women: A Cherokee and American Educational History. University of North Carolina Press. 
• Jennifer Raff. 2023. Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas. Twelve.
• Lisa Wingate. 2025. Shelterwood. Ballantine Books.
• Daniel H. Wilson. 2025. Hole in the Sky. Doubleday.
• Daniel Wilson. 2012. Robopocalypse. Vintage.
• Julie Reed’s faculty page
• Follow Julie Reed on Bluesky and Threads: @jreedmo 

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• Linda M. Perkins. 2024. To Advance the Race: Black Women's Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s. University of Illinois Press. 
• Crystal R. Sanders. 2024. A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs. University of North Carolina Press. 
• Marybeth Gasman and Levon T. Esters. 2024. HBCU: The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Noliwe Rooks. 2024. A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune. Penguin Random House.
• Linda Perkins’ faculty page

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• Andrew Guthrie Ferguson. 2026. Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance. New York University Press. 
• Andrew Guthrie Ferguson and Jonathan Yusef Newton. 2020. The Law of Law School: The Essential Guide for First-Year Law Students. New York University Press.
• Andrew Guthrie Ferguson. 2019. The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement. New York University Press.
• John Warner and Matt Seybold. February 3, 2026. The Technology That's Taking Your Freedom. Academic Freedom On the Line.
• Brian Hochman. 2022. The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States. Harvard University Press.
• Andrew Guthrie Ferguson’s faculty page, LinkedIn, and Bluesky

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• Mark Hlavacik. 2025. Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars. University of Chicago Press. 
• Mark Hlavacik. 2016. Assigning Blame: The Rhetoric of Education Reform. Harvard University Press.
• Emma Whitford. January 7, 2026. Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review. Inside Higher Ed.
• Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato. New York Times.
• Lynne V. Cheney. October 20, 1994. The End of History. The Wall Street Journal. 
• Lynne V. Cheney. January 24, 1995. Kill My Old Agency, Please.
• Andrew Hartman. 2019. A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, second edition. University of Chicago Press.
• Lynne Cheney, Pat Buchanan, Eric Foner, and Michael Kinsely. March 20, 1995. Crossfire, Part I and Part II
• Mark Hlavacik’s faculty page

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• Bryan Alexander. 2023. Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis. Johns Hopkins University Press. 
• Drew Miller. March 14, 2021. "No, Dolphins Did Not Reappear in Venice Canals: The Effects of COVID-19 on the Environment." University of Minnesota LawSci.
• Luke Kemp. 2025. Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse. Knopf.
• Future Trends Forum
• Bryan’s Substack
• bryanalexander.org 

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• Brian Soucek. 2026. The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education. University of Chicago Press. 
• Kalven Committee: Report on the University’s Role in Political and Social Action, November 11, 1967. University of Chicago.
• Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. March 19, 2025. Whose Side Are College Administrators On? HNN.
• Hollis Robbins. December 23, 2025. The Noxiousness of Civic-Discourse Platforms. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Steven G Poskanzer. 2025. The University's Voice: Principled Silence and Purposeful Speech. Johns Hopkins University Press. 
• Joan Wallach Scott. 2019. Academic Freedom as an Ethical Practice. Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom.                   
• Check out AAUP resources on academic freedom
• Emily Bronte. Wuthering Heights.
• David Szalay. Flesh. Scribner.
• Brian Soucek’s faculty page, LinkedIn, and Bluesky

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• Thomas Fallace. 2025. You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner: The Troubled History of the Learning Style Idea. University of Chicago Press. 
• Thomas D. Fallace. 2018. In the Shadow of Authoritarianism: American Education in the Twentieth Century. Teachers College Press.
• Thomas D. Fallace. 2015. Race and the Origins of Progressive Education, 1880-1929. Teachers College Press.
• Thomas D. Fallace. 2010. Dewey & the Dilemma of Race: An Intellectual History, 1895-1922. Teachers College Press.
• Thomas Fallace. 2023. Racism of Maria Montessori. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 55(5), 619–631.
• Phyllis Povell. 2009. Montessori Comes to America: The Leadership of Maria Montessori and Nancy McCormick Rambusch. University Press of America.
• Maria Montessori. Pedagogical Anthropology, translated from the Italian by Frederic Taber Cooper. Lector House.
• Adam Laats. 2024. Mr. Lancaster's System: The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Thomas Fallace’s faculty page

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• Ayala Panievsky. 2026. The New Censorship: How the War on the Media is Taking Us Down. Footnote Press. 
• Laura Gerbes. 2025. Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry. Princeton University Press.
• Kate Wright, Martin Scott, and Mel Bunce. 2024. Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America. Oxford University Press.
• Lea Ypi. 2022. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History. W. W. Norton.
• Lea Ypi. 2025. Indignity: A Life Reimagined. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• @panievsky on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn

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• Martin J. Murray. 2025. Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973. University of North Texas Press.
• Beverly Gage. 2023. G-man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Penguin.
• Gregg L. Michel. 2024. Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South. LSU Press.
• Edward H. Miller. 2016. Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy. University of Chicago Press.
• Doug Rossinow. 1999. The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America. Columbia University Press.
• Kellie Carter Jackson. 2024. We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance. Seal Press.
• Kellie Carter Jackson. 2020. Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence. University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Katherine Verdery. 2018. My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File. Duke University Press.
• Timothy Garton Ash. 19998. The File: A Personal History. Vintage.
• Alice Embree. 2021. Voice Lessons. Briscoe Center for American History UT-Austin.
• Email Martin Murray: murraymj@umich.edu 

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• John F. Morris. 2025. Students to Soldiers: Secret Military Education at Elite Schools, 1815–1945. University of Virginia Press.
• Max Egremont. 2012. Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Follow John Morris on Instagram @jfm_exclusive 

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• Bryan Alexander. 2026. Peak Higher Ed: How to Survive the Looming Academic Crisis. Johns Hopkins University Press. 
• 2023. Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis. Johns Hopkins University Press. 
• 2022. Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Johns Hopkins University Press. 
• Tressie McMillan Cottom. 2017. Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. The New Press.
• Randi Weingarten. May 6, 2025. Stop Trying to Make Everyone Go to College. New York Times.
• Luke Kemp. 2025. Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse. Knopf.
• Sarah McLaughlin. 2025. Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Future Trends Forum. 
• Bryan’s Substack.

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• Laura K. Field. 2025. Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right. Princeton University Press. 
• Publius Decius Mus (Michael Anton). September 5, 2016. “The Flight 93 Election.” Claremont Review of Books.
• Sam Tanenhaus. 2025. Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. Penguin Random House.
• Tanenhaus’s God and Man at Yale episode on American Campus Podcast
• Laura Field’s website
• Follow Laura on Bluesky @lkatfeld
• LK Field Notes Substack

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• Hunter M. Hampton. 2025. The Gridiron Gospel: Faith and College Football in Twentieth-Century America. University of Illinois Press. 
• John Eisenberg. 2017. Ten-Gallon War: The NFL's Cowboys, the AFL's Texans, and the Feud for Dallas's Pro Football Future. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 
• huntermhampton.com 
• Instagram @hunter_m_hampton

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• Aaron G. Fountain Jr. 2025. High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America. University of North Carolina Press. 
• Heather Ann Thompson. 2017. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. Vintage.
• Elizabeth Hinton. 2022. America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s. Liveright.
• R. F. Kuang. 2023. Yellowface: A Novel. William Morrow.
• Deborah Taffa. 2024. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir. Harper Perennial.
• Follow Aaron Fountain on Bluesky, Instagram, and his website

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• Andrew Feffer. 2019. Bad Faith: Teachers, Liberalism, and the Origins of McCarthyism. Fordham University Press. 
• Daniel Immerwahr. 2018. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Édouard Louis. 2024. Monique s'évade. Seuil.
• Édouard Louis. 2023. Who Killed My Father? Translated by Lorin Stein. New Directions. 
• Andrew Feffer on academia.edu
• Check out upcoming AAUP events
• Higher Education Labor United (HELU) 

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• Kate Eichhorn. 2025. School Yearbook: The Untold Story of a Cringey Tradition and Its Digital Afterlife. University of Chicago Press. 
• Michael A. Messner. 2025. The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024. Rutgers University Press. 
• Kate Eichhorn’s faculty page

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• Catherine Tebaldi. 2025. Alt-Education: Gender, Knowledge and Far-right Metapolitics. Routledge. 
• Janet MacIntosh. 2024. Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics. Oxford University Press.
• Chelsea Ebin. 2024. Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building. University Press of Kansas.
• Carl Neville. 2020. Eminent Domain. Repeater.
• Alexandra Kollontai. 2011. Red Love. Createspace Independent Publishing.
• Follow Cat Tebaldi on Bluesky @cat-tebaldi 

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• Emily Hauptmann. 2022. Foundations and American Political Science: The Transformation of a Discipline, 1945-1970. University Press of Kansas. 
• ACP episode on eugenics and the origins of statistics
• ACP episodes on funding and knowledge production: the academic-military-industrial complex and Gunnar Myrdal’s American Dilemma
• Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn. 2023. The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities. Duke University Press.
• Samantha Rose Hill, ed. 2024. What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt. Liveright.
• Emily Hauptmann’s faculty page and ResearchGate page

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• Richard S. Price. October 6, 2025. The straight college strikes back: 1990s backlash against inclusive campuses. Politics, Groups, and Identities.
• Megan Brenan. May 29, 2025. “Record Party Divide 10 Years After Same-Sex Marriage Ruling.” Gallup.
• David A. Reichard. 2024. Here Are My People: LGBT College Student Organizing in California. University of Georgia Press.
• Lawrence Glickman. May 21, 2020. “How White Backlash Controls American Progress.” The Atlantic.
• Hannah Kaner’s Fallen Gods Trilogy: Faithbreaker (2025); Sunbringer (2024); Godkiller (2023)
• Ellen Schrecker. 2025. The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s. University of Chicago Press.
• adventuresincensorship.com 

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• Alison Bashford. 2025. Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic. University of Chicago Press. 
• Naomi Oreskes. 2003. Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History Of The Modern Theory Of The Earth. CRC Books.
• Alison Bashford faculty page

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• Justin Raden. October 23, 2025. Higher Ed’s Rush to Adopt AI is About So Much More Than AI. Defector. 
• American Vandal podcast and Substack
• Moira Weigel. “Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School.” b2o
• Molly White [citation needed]
• Gil Durán. 2026. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy. Simon & Schuster.
• Edward Zitron Where’s Your Ed At? 
• Melinda Cooper. 2024. Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Zone Books.
• Quinn Slobodian. 2025. Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. Zone Books.
• Justin Raden on Bluesky @jraden.bsky.social
• Sarah Osment tweets (follow for Mike Davis reading group in January 2026)
• faculty email jraden1@olemiss.edu 

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• Celene Reynolds. 2025. Unlawful Advances: How Feminists Transformed Title IX. Princeton University Press. 
• “What colleges (don’t) do about sexual violence with Nicole Bedera.” American Campus Podcast. May 28, 2025.
• Susan Faludi. 2006. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. Crown.
• Juliet Hooker. 2025. Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss. Princeton University Press.
• Celene Reynolds’ faculty page

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• Henry Reichman. 2025. Understanding Academic Freedom, 2nd edition. Johns Hopkins University Press. 
• J. McKeen Cattell. 1913. University Control.
• Joy Ann Williamson-Lott. 2018. Jim Crow Campus: Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order. Teachers College Press.
• Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. 2025. Whose Side are Administrators On? HNN.
• Russell Banks. 2007. Continental Drift. Ecco.
• AAUP’s Academe blog
• Hank Reichman on Bluesky @hankreichman.bsky.social 
• AAUP’s At-Large chapter for anyone! 
• AAUP resources 

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• JFK's Harvard application, 1935. John F. Kennedy Library.
• bell hooks. All About Love. 
• Torrey Peters. 2025. Stag Dance. Random House.
• Laura Garbes. 2025. Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry. Princeton University Press.
• pskconsulting.org
• Email prabh at pkehal@pskconsulting.org
• Sikh LGBTQIA+ Oral History Archive qtsikharchive.org 

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• Naomi Oreskes. 2025. Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean. University of Chicago Press. 
• Naomi Oreskes. 2021. Why Trust Science? Princeton University Press.
• Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. 2011. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change. Bloomsbury.
• Naomi Oreskes. 2025. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market. Bloomsbury.
• Percival Everett. 2024. James. Doubleday.
• Andrew Ross Sorkin. 2025. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation. Viking.
• Naomi Oreskes faculty page, LinkedIn, and Bluesky

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• Andy Hines, ed. 2025. University Keywords. Johns Hopkins University Press. 
• Alyssa Battistoni. 2025. Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. Princeton University Press.
• Emily Callaci. 2020. “On Acknowledgments.” American Historical Review 125 (1): 126–31.
• Justin Raden. October 23, 2025. Higher Ed's Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI. Defector.
• Bluesky @andyhines.bsky.social 
• aydelotte.swarthmore.edu
• @AydelotteFoundation on Instagram
• Abbie Boggs, Eli Meyerhoff, Nick Mitchell, and Zach Schwartz-Weinstein. January 19, 2022. Abolitionist University Studies: An Invitation. Viewpoint Magazine. 
• Abolish the University? Pamphlet, Abolitionist University Studies
• Email Lauren at shephell@iu.edu to join the Political Economy of the Academy group

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• Nicholas Buccola. 2025. One Man's Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal. Princeton University Press. 
• Hajar Yazdiha. 2023. The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement. Princeton University Press.
• Daniel Pollack-Pelzner. 2025. Lin Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist. Simon & Schuster.
• James Baldwin. 1956. Giovani’s Room.
• James Baldwin. 1963. The Fire Next Time.
• www.nicholasbuccola.com

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• Maribel Morey. 2021. White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation's An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order. University of North Carolina Press. 
• miamisocialsciences.org virtual forums
• Gunnar Myrdal, American Dilemma volume I
• Gunnar Myrdal, American Dilemma volume II
• John Fabian Witt. 2025. The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America. Simon & Schuster.
• William H. Tucker. 2007. The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press.

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• Brad Bolman. 2025. Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles. University of Chicago Press. 
• Benjamin Alberto Schultz-Figueroa. 2023. The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research Into Animal Life. University of California Press. 
• Gustave Flaubert. Madam Boverie.
• Bluesky @bolman.bsky.social 
• Instagram @labdogbook
• Email Brad at bbolman@tulane.edu 

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• Isaac Kamola. Spring 2025. Understanding the Evolving Culture-War Vernacular. Academe Magazine. 
• Isaac Kamola. 2019. Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary. Duke University Press.
• Ralph Wilson and Isaac Kamola. 2021. Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War. Pluto Press. 
• Roderick A. Ferguson. 2017. We Demand: The University and Student Protests. University of California Press.
• Nancy MacLean. 2018. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. Penguin.
• Christopher Newfield. 2011. Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class. Harvard University Press.
• John K. Wilson. 1995. The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education. Duke University Press.
• Kendal Gerdes on the 2010s, safe spaces, and trigger warnings.
• AAUP Presents: Academic Freedom on the Line podcast and newsletter
• AAUP’s academic freedom syllabus, module, field guide, first aid kit, border crossing guide and international travel tips
• Benjamin Wallace-Wells. June 18, 2021. How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory. New Yorker. 
• Percival Everett books
• James McBride. 2021. Deacon King Kong. Riverhead.
• Ethan Rutherford. 2025. North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther. Strange Object. 
• ikamola@aaup.org and follow on Bluesky

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• John K Wilson. August 2025. “100 Years Ago, the Scopes Monkey Trial Discovered Academic Freedom.” Chronicle of Higher Education.
• John K. Wilson. 1995. The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education. Duke University Press.
• Fara Dabhoiwala. 2025. What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea. Belknap Press.
• John K. Wilson’s columns in Inside Higher Ed
• John K. Wilson on Twitter

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• Mary Anne Franks. 2024. Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment. Bold Type Books. 
• Mary Anne Franks. 2019. The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech. Stanford University Press.
• University of Chicago’s 1967 Kalven Report
• Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. March 19, 2025. Who's Side are College Administrators On? HNN.
• AAUP’s 2025 Statement on Institutional Neutrality
• Allen Levi. 2025. Theo of Golden: A Novel. Atria Books.
• Bluesky @maryannefranks.bsky.social

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• Rachel Morgan. 2024. Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology. University of Chicago Press. 
• John Fowler. 2021. A Forest in the Clouds. Pegasus Books.
• Follow Rachel Morgan on Instagram at @adventures_in_archaeology

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• The Coalition Against Campus Debt. 2024. Lend and Rule: Fighting the Financialization of Public Universities. Common Notions Press. 
• Sofya Aptekar’s faculty page
• sofyaaptekar.com 
• Robin D. G. Kelley. 2022. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (20th anniversary edition). Beacon Press.
• Robin D. G. Kelley. Fall 2022. Twenty Years of Freedom Dreams. Boston Review.

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• Josh Shepperd. 2023. Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting. University of Illinois Press.
• Laura Garbes. 2025. Listeners Like Who: Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry. Princeton University Press.
• Katherine Jewell. 2023. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio. University of North Carolina.
• Josh Shepperd’s BlueSky and faculty page

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• Katya Schwenk. September 10, 2025. “How Wall Street Broke the College Bookstore.” LeverNews.com.
• Vincent Bevins. 2020. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World. PublicAffairs.
• levernews.com 

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• David S. Busch. 2025. Disciplining Democracy: How the Modern American University Transformed Student Activism. Cornell University Press. 
• Ethan Schrum. 2019. The Instrumental University: Education in Service of the National Agenda after World War II. Cornell University Press.
• Julie A. Reuben. 1996. The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality. University of Chicago Press.
• Eleanor Roosevelt. 1940. The Moral Basis of Democracy. 
• Harris Wofford. 2023. Embers of the World: Conversations with Scott Buchanan. Legare Street Press.
• David Busch’s website: davidsbusch.com 

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• Sandy Grande. 2018. “Refusing the University.” Free PDF.
• Sandy Grande. 2016. Red Pedagogy. Free PDF.
• ACP episodes on Indigeneity and the university with Sharon Stein and Eve L. Ewing
• Robin D. G. Kelley. March 1, 2016. “Black Study, Black Struggle.” The Boston Review. 
• “Board of Trustees agreement shows hope for UConn-Indigenous relations,” The Daily Campus, February 3, 2025.

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• Association of University Presses and #AskUp
• Steven L. Herman. 2024. Behind the White House Curtain. Kent State University Press.
• Madeleine L'Engle. 1980. A Swiftly Tilting Planet.
• J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobit.
• Robert M. Veatch and Lainie F. Ross. 2016. Defining Death: The Case for Choice. Georgetown University Press.
• Kent State UP on Instagram, Facebook, and Bluesky

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• Jarvis McInnis. 2025. Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South. Columbia University Press. 
• Zora Neale Hurston. Mules and Men.
• Zora Neale Herston. Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica.
• Jesmyn Ward. 2024. Let Us Descend.
• Brea Baker. 2024. Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership.
• Addie E. Citchens. 2025. Dominion. FSG.
• Jason Allen-Paisant. 2025. The Possibility of Tenderness: A Jamaican Memoir of Plants and Dreams.
• Follow Jarvis McInnis on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn
• Jarvis McInnis’s website
• Email: jarvis.mcinnis@duke.com 

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• Daniel J. Flynn. 2025. The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. Encounter Books. 
• P. G. Wodehouse books
• American Spectator, spectator.org 

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• Eve Darian-Smith. 2025. Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters. Johns Hopkins University Press. OPEN ACCESS PDF
• Find out more about the Scholars at Risk network

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References mentioned this episode:

• Matthew Boedy. 2025. The Seven Mountains Mandate: Inside the Sweeping Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy. WJK Books.
• Janisse Ray. 2022. The Woods of Fannin County.
• Matthew Boedy on YouTube
• Matthew Boedy on Twitter
• AAUP guide: how to respond to Turning Point USA on your campus

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• James M. Thomas. 2020. Diversity Regimes: Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities. Rutgers University Press. 
• James M. Thomas. 2023. The Souls of Jewish Folks: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line. University of Georgia Press.
• James M. Thomas. August 14, 2025. “‘It’s a complicated time to be a white Southerner’ − and their views on race reflect that.” The Conversation.
• Brammhi Balaraja. March 24, 2025. “Federal judge rules that drag show events can take place on Texas A&M.” Chron. 
• “Confrontation between teenager wearing MAGA hat and Native American protestor.” ABC News. YouTube.
• ACLU Press Release. June 20, 2025. “Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Louisiana Law Requiring Public Schools to Display Ten Commandments in Every Classroom.” 
• Bryan D. Jones. 2025. The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family’s History. Oxford University Press.
• Vincent O. Carter. 2025. Such Sweet Thunder: A Novel. Penguin Random House.
• Follow JT Thomas on Instagram and Bluesky

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• Nimisha Barton. 2024. A Just Future: Getting from Diversity and Inclusion to Equity and Justice in Higher Education. Cornell University Press.
• Nimisha Barton’s website
• James M. Thomas. 2020. Diversity Regimes: Why Talk is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities. Rutgers University Press.
• Will Kymlica. 2007. Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity. Oxford University Press.
• Sara Ahmed. 2012. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Duke University Press. 
• Jennifer S. Furlong and Stacy M. Hartman. June 10, 2025. “How to Have ‘The Talk’ with Your Adviser.” Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore. 2023. Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation. Verso Books. 
• Kelly Hayes and Miriame Kaba. 2023. Let this Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care. Haymarket Books.
• Dean Spade. 2020. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity Through This Crisis (and the Next). Verso Books. 
• Maya Wind. 2024. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom. Verso Books.
• Barry M. Goldenberg. 2025. Strength through Diversity: Harlem Prep and the Rise of Multiculturalism. Rutgers University Press.
• Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. October 23, 2023. “The History Behind The Right’s Efforts to Take Over American Universities.” TIME Magazine.
• Daniel Bessner and Michael Brenes. April 26, 2019. “A Moral Stain on the Profession.” Chronicle of Higher Education. 

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• Alan Blinder and Steven Rich. August 25, 2025. The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think. New York Times. (Strongly recommend reading the comments)
• Teddy Gania. March 19, 2025. UChicago Lost Money On Crypto, Then Froze Research When Federal Funding Was Cut. The Stanford Review.
• Richard J. Evans. 2005. The Coming of the Third Reich. Penguin Books.
• Marshall Steinbaum’s website, Twitter, and Bluesky

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• Samuel Rutherford. 2025. Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 1860–1939. Oxford University Press. 
• Sam’s website with a trans history reading list and a student handout for how to read in graduate level courses
• Emily Cousens. 2025. Virginia Prince, Robert Stoller and the Trans Feminist Intellectual History of the Sex/Gender Distinction. History Workshop Journal.
• After Weimar; Beyond Hirschfeld? Nostalgia, Hagiography and What Comes Next. German History, 43(2). June 2025.
• Sam’s Bluesky @echomikeromeo 

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• Anne Trumbore. 2025. The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology. Princeton University Press.
• Anne Trumbore’s website
• Anne Trumbore’s LinkedIn
• Timothy Burke. August 7, 2025. Academia: GPT University. Eight by Seven.
• Han Kang. 2025. We Do Not Part. Hogarth. Translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris.