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Removing Agency: Anti-Intellectualism in the U.S.

October 7, 2026

Infantilizing higher education does not make it more accountable. It makes it less capable of doing the work democracy requires of it—and more useful to those who never wanted it to do that work in the first place.

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The Web of Legislative Control: Anti-Intellectualism in the U.S.

September 28, 2026

Substituting political for professional judgment about what constitutes a sound pedagogical approach continues to illustrate anti-intellectualism and the infantilization of higher education.

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Follow the Money: Anti-Intellectualism in the U.S.

September 21, 2026

Over four decades, patents, tuition debt and corporate governance turned the American university into a market enterprise. Now the same forces that commercialized higher education use that very transformation to declare it unfit to govern itself.

The Irony: Anti-Intellectualism in the U.S.

September 15, 2026

“It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.”       —Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963)

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What to Say When People Question the Cost of Higher Education

September 9, 2026

Higher education is being eaten alive by external forces. Everyone needs to employ a rhetoric that combats misinformation. We need to take back the sector on behalf of students and the public good. There is no free lunch.

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The Ticks and Leeches of Higher Education

September 1, 2026

External culprits eating the sector alive by exploiting, capitalizing and profiting off higher education and students stand to weaken and kill it.

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Higher Education Overgrazing: Fixed Costs Are Leaving Nothing Behind

August 24, 2026

The habits and behaviors of industry negatively impact and consume higher education and students to feed their own agendas and fill their coffers, but there is no free lunch.

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Foxes in the Higher Ed Henhouse

August 17, 2026

Professional athletics and the entertainment industry are dining and dashing like foxes in a henhouse when it comes to higher education and its students.