After spring 2024’s revival of the student protest movement at a scale not seen since the 1960s, reactionary administrators & faculty got together to opportunistically discredit & try to reverse intellectual trends they didn’t like and blamed for creating the encampments like Vandy report & this one
Asheesh Kapur Siddique
“We question the ‘study’s’ purpose in a time of institutional capture by political actors that prohibit independent inquiry and dissent.”
New at PB: Iván Chaar López & @erinmcel.bsky.social on Richard D. Kahlenberg and Lief Lin’s critique of American Studies.
“There is a movement undermining, constraining, and eradicating those who document, understand, and name the experiences of systematically marginalized communities in US history.”
