Just What We Need: This F*ckin’ Guy.
In the wake of the presidential election this month, we’ve seen the emergence of an entire genre of post-mortem analyses, written with the blithe confidence…
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On Presentism and History; Or, We’re Doing This Again, Are We?
There are so many urgent—one could argue, dire—issues which members of the community of historians face. The ongoing right-wing war against public and higher education…
Some Thoughts on Moving into Labor-Based Grading Contracts
For a long time, I’ve been moving in the direction of ungrading. I’ve long known that grades, traditionally-defined and used, don’t reflect actual learning, and…
The Data Is In: Performative Hardassery Is Not Good Teaching.
It’s been fifteen months since I’ve updated this blog, and yet the tut-tutting discourse around so-called “trigger warnings” is still with us. And, like almost…
The Summer of Magical Thinking
What’s your college or university doing about the fall semester? This question seems more urgent now then ever, given how Dr. Anthony Fauci told a…
On the Air: A Guest Appearance on Tea for Teaching
I was recently a guest on the Tea For Teaching podcast, and we had a great time talking about my new book, Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto,…
The 1619 Project, the Founders-Industrial Complex, and History Pedagogy
History is a lot of things, but perhaps nothing so much as the practice of organized forgetting. No matter what methods historians use to research,…
Each Against All: Neoliberalism and Higher Education, Part 3
For Part One, click HERE. For Part Two, click HERE. In the first two parts of this series, I looked at both the larger philosophical…
Each Against All: Neoliberalism and Higher Education, Part 2
[Click here to read Part One] In the 1970s, neoliberalism came into its own as a coherent ideological platform and political-economic policy toolkit. As politicians,…
Each Against All: Neoliberalism and Higher Education, Part One.
Which things, tell me, are yours? Whence have you brought your goods into life? You are like one occupying a place in a theater, who…