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References and suggested readings:

• Brian Soucek. 2026. The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education. University of Chicago Press.
• Kalven Committee: Report on the University’s Role in Political and Social Action, November 11, 1967. University of Chicago.
• Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. March 19, 2025. Whose Side Are College Administrators On? HNN.
• Hollis Robbins. December 23, 2025. The Noxiousness of Civic-Discourse Platforms. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Steven G Poskanzer. 2025. The University's Voice: Principled Silence and Purposeful Speech. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Joan Wallach Scott. 2019. Academic Freedom as an Ethical Practice. Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom.
• Check out AAUP resources on academic freedom
• Emily Bronte. Wuthering Heights.
• David Szalay. Flesh. Scribner.
• Brian Soucek’s faculty page, LinkedIn, and Bluesky

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On the learning styles myth

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References and suggested readings:

• Thomas Fallace. 2025. You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner: The Troubled History of the Learning Style Idea. University of Chicago Press.
• Thomas D. Fallace. 2018. In the Shadow of Authoritarianism: American Education in the Twentieth Century. Teachers College Press.
• Thomas D. Fallace. 2015. Race and the Origins of Progressive Education, 1880-1929. Teachers College Press.
• Thomas D. Fallace. 2010. Dewey & the Dilemma of Race: An Intellectual History, 1895-1922. Teachers College Press.
• Thomas Fallace. 2023. Racism of Maria Montessori. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 55(5), 619–631.
• Phyllis Povell. 2009. Montessori Comes to America: The Leadership of Maria Montessori and Nancy McCormick Rambusch. University Press of America.
• Maria Montessori. Pedagogical Anthropology, translated from the Italian by Frederic Taber Cooper. Lector House.
• Adam Laats. 2024. Mr. Lancaster's System: The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Thomas Fallace’s faculty page

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And authoritarian attacks on all of the above.

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References and suggested readings:

• Ayala Panievsky. 2026. The New Censorship: How the War on the Media is Taking Us Down. Footnote Press.
• Laura Gerbes. 2025. Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry. Princeton University Press.
• Kate Wright, Martin Scott, and Mel Bunce. 2024. Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America. Oxford University Press.
• Lea Ypi. 2022. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History. W. W. Norton.
• Lea Ypi. 2025. Indignity: A Life Reimagined. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• @panievsky on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn

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References and suggested readings:

• Martin J. Murray. 2025. Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973. University of North Texas Press.
• Beverly Gage. 2023. G-man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Penguin.
• Gregg L. Michel. 2024. Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South. LSU Press.
• Edward H. Miller. 2016. Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy. University of Chicago Press.
• Doug Rossinow. 1999. The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America. Columbia University Press.
• Kellie Carter Jackson. 2024. We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance. Seal Press.
• Kellie Carter Jackson. 2020. Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence. University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Katherine Verdery. 2018. My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File. Duke University Press.
• Timothy Garton Ash. 19998. The File: A Personal History. Vintage.
• Alice Embree. 2021. Voice Lessons. Briscoe Center for American History UT-Austin.
• Email Martin Murray: murraymj@umich.edu

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On all our favorite topics: imperialism, homosociality, liberalism, hazing!

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References and suggested readings:

• John F. Morris. 2025. Students to Soldiers: Secret Military Education at Elite Schools, 1815–1945. University of Virginia Press.
• Max Egremont. 2012. Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Follow John Morris on Instagram @jfm_exclusive

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On the academy’s decline since 2011.

References and suggested readings:

• Bryan Alexander. 2026. Peak Higher Ed: How to Survive the Looming Academic Crisis. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• 2023. Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• 2022. Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Tressie McMillan Cottom. 2017. Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. The New Press.
• Randi Weingarten. May 6, 2025. Stop Trying to Make Everyone Go to College. New York Times.
• Luke Kemp. 2025. Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse. Knopf.
• Sarah McLaughlin. 2025. Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Future Trends Forum.
• Bryan’s Substack.

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References and suggested readings:

• Laura K. Field. 2025. Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right. Princeton University Press.
• Publius Decius Mus (Michael Anton). September 5, 2016. “The Flight 93 Election.” Claremont Review of Books.
• Sam Tanenhaus. 2025. Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. Penguin Random House.
• Tanenhaus’s God and Man at Yale episode on American Campus Podcast
• Laura Field’s website
• Follow Laura on Bluesky @lkatfeld
• LK Field Notes Substack

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