Mainstream media doesn't just do a terrible job of covering higher ed; the major news outlets and magazines are actively hostile to academic workers because we directly threaten their economic interests.
Van Gosse has the antidote to the 14th amendment nonsense. It was never the beginning of birthright citizenship. (And I might add that saying so gives Roger Taney a posthumous victory.) www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/birt...
$250 million wasted in one night. hink about the enormous opportunity costs of Trump's war of choice.
And here it is, my belabored retrospective on Gordon Wood. Of course they changed the title, as magazines do. I preferred "How Gordon S. Wood Became the Rhetoric and Reality of the American Revolution" but knew it probably wouldn't fly.
newrepublic.com/article/2115...
David Waldstreicher does historiography better than anyone else I know 🗃️
My first postdoc was within Historical Studies at the New School; the attached article explains that, as faculty are induced to leave or fired, this department will be replaced by something far more politically suspicious, its funders undisclosed:
It's absolutely infuriating that blue-state governors do not see this as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to launch their schools into the stratosphere.
And I don't mean that in a greedy way. I mean that they could actively work to save US higher ed AND make their schools even better.
Join Boston Review and Dissent for an event with Adom Getachew, Aziz Rana, and David Waldstreicher on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
https://secure.givelively.org/event/boston-critic-inc/america-at-250-a-conversation-with-adom-getachew-aziz-rana-and-david-waldstreicher
Never gets old.
J-school essay topic: Is there any performance test for essentially life-tenure columnists? A limit on how many big calls you can get totally wrong, before they say: Hey, buddy, how about taking a step back for a while. Maybe a few reported pieces? Where you go out and ask around?
The acclaimed historian, who died at the age of 92 this week, spent decades at the center of a debate about the founding of the United States.
Trump on Fox & Friends: "They're dying to make a deal. They want to make a deal so badly. We dropped $250 million of bombs on them last night. They're really in submission. They just don't know it yet."
The idea that citizenship extends to everyone born on U.S. soil has precedents stretching back to the Founding.
Here’s the story, and it’s not good: www.newschoolfreepress.com/2026/04/16/i...
“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”
Aaron Rupar
Ossoff: "While you pay more for everything, Donald Trump wants your tax dollars for what many are calling the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom."
The policies mirror the directives laid out in HB 580, which doesn’t take effect until October and doesn’t apply to the institution.
We cannot expect accurate renderings of education from a magazine owned by a media conglomerate owned by a private equity firm deeply invested in EdTech.
That is, The New Yorker.
Nor from a magazine owned by a venture capital fund deeply invested in EdTech.
That is, The Atlantic.
This story was updated on April 17 at 8:23 a.m. Introduction The Center for the American Experience (CAE), a new center promising “nonpartisan dialogue and fearless debate,” is coming to The New Schoo...
