Jonathan Z Ludwig

Yes, Canadian snowboarder.

I wonder if "Storvensen" realizes that he's almost quoting part of Indigo Girls song?

We're going to have to rebuild everything in 3 years or so, aren't we?

Come learn about Russian spies! @okstate.edu @okstatepres.bsky.social

Thank you for doing this. I just emailed my students about these.

Several Presidents were, including Reagan: www.varsity.com/news/10-poli....

First day of school. Teaching year 36.

I picked those up at ICCEES too!

Books from London trip. Yes, most are spy related. Interested in borrowing anything, @johnsipher.bsky.social?

He's drunk tweeting again!

Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much.

“It’s not that traditional liberal arts is out of step with student demand. Instead, it’s out of step with the priorities values desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to liberal education, an administrative class.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

I have an Official Enemies List. I volunteer them for the fields!

During Covid, I started writing down the names of the books I read as I completed them, leading me to wish that I had started doing so earlier.

When I read it yesterday, one of the ways I interpreted it was that anyone could still come and do research, but you couldn't just come and hang out; i.e., you have to have a research reason to be there, which I always had.

It's almost as if they have no idea what they're doing and they're making stuff up as they go along.

Two Valdai-boys and a bunch of people I've never heard of -- and I've been in this field 30+ years -- scribbled out the letter against Dr. Hill's analysis. I would gladly sign on to the one referenced below, which is actually accurate.

A couple of them are Valdai-boys, I believe.

And there's the replacement health care plan ... and his tax returns ... and decisions to be made about Russia ...

Are you going to be at ICCEES?

Poor education, yes, but also a lack of effort on the part of students to work hard. I have the worst time getting my students to read, do homework, etc., and that's very much not an exception. It starts long before college (for too many reasons to type here,), but it's this generation. Sadly.

How is this a "secret"? I knew about this when I was in college in the 80s (from the 60s). Nothing has changed.

I think it's largely because administrators are always looking toward their next job, rather than the one they have, so they have to Do Something to seem "innovative."

I remember when John McCain said that he got criticized for talking to Democrat Senators on the Senate floor and/or sitting in the back of the chamber with them. It's only gotten worse from then.

I've been through enough cycles to see that pedagogies are recycled, albeit under different names, every generation or two, about the time some people need "new" ideas to publish.

Perfect timing that I'm about halfway through Putin's Sledgehammer, which is all about Prigozhin/Wagner!

Learning the Art of Counterintelligence from CIA’s best Air Force Global Strike Command’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Directorate recently visited with James M. Olson, former Chief of CIA Counterintelligence and Professor of Practice at T...

Olson didn’t just study counterintelligence—he lived it. Breaking KGB tails, tapping cables in Moscow, and running ops across continents? That’s real spycraft, not Hollywood. When he talks, it pays to listen. #CIA #Spycraft #NationalSecurity #counterintelligence www.dvidshub.net/news/411575/...

French intelligence has released data on Russia's large-scale espionage and sabotage activities against France. A 16-page report titled "Russian Threats and Actions Against France" refers to cyberattacks, espionage, sabotage and attempts to influence political processes⤵️

Can you even buy anything from the vending machine with a dollar any longer?

That was exactly my thought as well.

Comment from Russian Spy Class paper: "I leave this semester with a newfound paranoia and distrust of people but better informed on what to expect if my neighbor truly does turn out to be the next big Russian spy case." Job well done.