Christina Wolbrecht

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls.

But since she asked,

"Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States."

www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...

Cover of The Lancet, 28 February 2026 issue. The quote: “The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.”

On the cover of The Lancet:
Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure”

Read the latest issue: spkl.io/63327Aa31W

Important new book co-authored by my colleague Ricky Clark! @rickyclark.bsky.social

Can foreign policy issues really affect elections? Can foreign policy issues really affect elections? Our surveys from 2023-25 show Americans are anxious about global affairs, but not necessarily paying close attention.

The Foreign Policy in a Diverse Society (www.fpds-surveys.org) project is starting to release cumulative results from 2.5 years of surveying the American public on foreign economic policy. check out an overview at: goodauthority.org/news/can-for...

The University of Texas System has passed a set of rules regulating the teaching of "controversy." The administration of each university in the system gets to decide what constitutes controversy. I've published an op-ed in the Austin Statesman respoonding.

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

The thought lodged in my head — intrusively, as I’d rather not connect the names of these two people, frankly — is that Claudine Gay is owed _such_ an apology.

Come join an amazing academic community as a postdoc with Alex!

I just finished this book and it is — hands down — one of the best books I've ever read.

trump is calling for banning congressional stock trading, but he leaves out the key detail: the reason there's a standstill right now is democrats want it to apply to trump and the white house, but trump issued a veto threat over that.

I’m getting a little sick of saying this, but I think it’s worth repeating, that this speech sounds no different than your average white nationalist website.

Most Conservative Students Don’t Feel Persecuted on Campus A new survey of college students contradicts Republican rhetoric that campus culture is hostile to right-wing views.

> 71 percent said their professors create a classroom environment that supports both students who express unpopular opinions and those who may be upset by such views.

Good job everyone. And I mean this sincerely. It is hard out there and we are doing a good job.

Old Women, Race, and Power Conference - The Huntington

“What does the history of aging, power, and agency look like when we center the diverse experiences of women?” 🗃️

www.huntington.org/event/old-wo...

You know who also had speeches lasting multiple hours? Your average dictator.

It is one measure of power/domination--how long will people have to pay attention?

The fact that there’s a secret network of doulas going around Minneapolis to help with home births for parents afraid of ICE should be front-page news.

These children, born in secrecy, are American citizens.

If only women academics would lean in / toughen up / work harder / smile more, then surely they would get ahead.

Pre-state societies were never feminist utopias, overflowing with milk and gender harmony.

They were often violent and coercive.

State control and pacification are crucial precursors to gender equality.

My essay, www.ggd.world/p/male-viole...

Creating a computer that destroys an entire country's independent capacity for reason is some Bond villain-level shit.

Thanks, Sherrilyn. Note, there are about 8 million+ U.S. #Adoptees. Hundreds of thousands were severed from their countries of origins by intercountry adoption and do not have "original birth certificates." Most US born adoptees don't either. They ALL would be impacted disproportionately too.

These #momentsofgender are completely out of hand.

How do you introduce a field without mentioning one of its central insights? We are through the looking glass, y'all.

woMEn arE TOo eMOTionaL

Why are they all so weird.

Expressed as a ratio, these figures mean that there are six former Christians for every convert to Christianity in the United States. The balance is especially lopsided for Catholicism (which loses 8.4 people through religious switching for every convert to the religion). But Protestants also lose more people than they gain through switching, by a ratio of 1.8 to one.

Using surveys from 117 countries and territories, we analyzed data from adult respondents and compared the religion they say they were raised in (as children) with their current religious identity (as adults).9 To capture switching that has occurred in more recent years, we use data from adults ages 18 to 54. Religious switching is more common earlier in life, though it can happen at any age. We found that for every adult in that age group who says they joined a religion after having been raised without a religion, 3.2 moved in the other direction – they left religion altogether after having been raised in one. As a r

I've read many stories about the number of adult Catholic baptisms. For perspective, it may be helpful to keep in mind how many have shed religious identity. In the US, there are 8.4 former Catholics for every 1 new Catholic. Globally, there are 3.1 former Christians for every 1 new Christian.

I'm more worried that it's a ton of money to not learn anything.

Pope Leo tells priests not to use AI to write homilies or seek likes on TikTok "To give a true homily is to share faith," and artificial intelligence "will never be able to share faith," the pope said.

The pope is better on this issue than a lot of university administrators right now. www.ncronline.org/vatican/pope...

In 2024-25, the total cost of attending Columbia was $93,000.