Alex Trimble Young

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

Holy, dread leviathan, we are not worthy spectators of your lunching

Turbulent Waters, or the Sublime Object of Subalternity Abstract. Mark Twain’s “Day at Niagara” (1869) concludes with a notorious moment of misrecognition, in which Twain’s buffoonish narrator mistakes a group o

Some thoughts on three fascinating new books and various questions about representation in American studies, framed by a reading of my favorite Mark Twain short story: academic.oup.com/alh/article-...

This is excellent.

Bari!!!! Bari Weiss it's happening!!! Save us Bari!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Imagine celebrating a known racist blogger to appease a fascist party who hates you, but refusing to endorse the duly elected democratic nominee of your own party that elected you. 😐

In Memoriam Jan Dizard (1940-2025) The Joyful Contradictions of The Hunter/Scholar

Wrote a thing for the Guns Unpacked Substack about my friend and former Amherst colleague Jan Dizard: gunsunpackedpod.substack.com/p/in-memoria...

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It appears Instructure has removed the capacity to delete old courses in Canvas. In many cases (depending on institutional settings) those course are also uneditable.

But they definitely aren't stealing our IP and using it to train algorithms.

Columbia / Barnard continue to set the standard for embarrassing institutional leadership. You feel terrible for the faculty, staff, and students whose leaders are throwing them under the bus.

And it was definitely worth it for the student cartoonist’s work alone - it’s me fr

Opinion: ASU just observed AI Day — but who is celebrating? - The Arizona State Press As the University cheers on AI in higher education, two Barrett professors urge colleagues and administration to take a more cautious approach.

Inspired by @mattseybold.bsky.social and @annakornbluh.bsky.social, Michael Ostling and I made a modest effort toward pushing back against the deluge of AI propaganda we’re facing at ASU. www.statepress.com/article/2025...

‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts Social media accounts that appear to be connected to the 16-year-old shooter are littered with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views, The Denver Post found.

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish.

The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and info about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...

UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe

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Season II of Guns Unpacked is live! Check out our first episode with Gerald Higginbotham on gun rights, race, and the psychology of gun ownership:

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Russia launching on Poland was not the news I needed on Tuesday night m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5i4...

Season II of Guns Unpacked is officially live! We’re leading off with Jennifer Carlson’s fascinating interview with Gerald Highinbotham on the interplay between rights and race in the psychology of gun owners - check it out! rss.com/podcasts/gun...

Wrote a short thing about America First higher education using Emerson, Rufo, and Verblen, read it if you want and share the whole issue muse.jhu.edu/article/968777

Nice Sam!

For Labor Day, Mark Twain's paean to the Knights of Labor:

Power, when lodged in the hands of man, means oppression - it means oppression always: not always consciously, deliberately, purposely; not always cruelly, or sweepingly; but oppression, anyway, & always, in one shape or another.

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Until it became a nazi bar they all regularly said "twitter isn't real life" but now apparently it is

A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...

Gun Lobbyists and Cambridge Analytica Weaponized Gun Owners’ Private Details for Political Gain Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of...

The gun industry's secret project fundamentally transformed the American lawmaker. In a span of a few years, state and federal politicians morphed from actively seeking solutions to "thoughts and prayers." Read these two stories to find out how. www.propublica.org/article/guns...

Guns Unpacked Season 2 - Extended Trailer | Podcast Episode on RSS.com Guns Unpacked Season 2 launches September 8th!

US gun culture is undergoing a sea change, and you need to understanding that transformation is crucial to understanding so much else. Start here: rss.com/podcasts/gun...

If you teach in Canvas, by default, your counterparties to this user agreement are not just Instructure, but OpenAi, it's lead VC funder, Dragoneer Investment, & KKR, one of the five biggest private equity firms in the world.

Potential plot for next Coen Brothers film