Bradford Vivian

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A recent injunction barred the Education Department from enforcing its new Title IX rule at colleges attended by members of two conservative student groups. Hundreds of colleges across the country are affected. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/46aBkvn

Title IX rule on hold at more than 670 collegesbit.ly A recent injunction barred the Education Department from enforcing its new Title IX rule at colleges attended by members of two conservative student groups. Hundreds of colleges across the country are...

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Re-circulating once again. JD Vance's views illustrate how officials in Europe + North America are mainstreaming authoritarian propaganda about democratic institutions from Russia + Eastern Europe. Assaults on academic freedom are prominent in all such cases. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Tracing the roots of anti-university rhetoric (opinion)www.insidehighered.com Bradford Vivian writes that growing anti-university sentiment can be traced to pro-authoritarian movements abroad.

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Opposing assaults on academic freedom is not partisan politics. It’s a defense of public institutions and civil liberties, which enjoy a long history in Western culture, that benefit everyone. 👇👇👇 www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Trump taps J.D. Vance, sharp critic of higher ed, for VPwww.insidehighered.com The Yale Law School graduate has used sharp criticism of elite higher ed to help establish his MAGA bona fides and build a national brand.

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Our team just published a "rapid" analysis of some of the rumors we've been tracking since the assassination attempt on Saturday, drawing on these foundational understandings of "collective sensemaking" during crises: www.cip.uw.edu/2024/07/15/t...

Making sense of rumors about the Trump assassination attemptwww.cip.uw.edu We share some of what we have seen on social media and other online spaces in the aftermath of the Trump assassination attempt, and put that into context based on what we know about how people use …

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CBS News: Hungary’s Viktor Orbán seized control of universities rewrote the Constitution and neutered the courts. Is that what you're advocating for in the US? JD Vance: I think Orbán made smart decisions that we could learn from in the US. (June 2024) ---via The Intellectualist

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One of the horrible ironies here is how much leaders of a movement ostensibly dedicated to opposing communist totalitarianism in all its forms now speaks a helluva lot like communist party officials.

^now speak

Tracing the roots of anti-university rhetoric (opinion)www.insidehighered.com Bradford Vivian writes that growing anti-university sentiment can be traced to pro-authoritarian movements abroad.

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I was a student and Fulbright prof in Budapest, I've watched Orbán gut academia in the country

" Vance has declared universities the enemy and asserted that “the closest that conservatives have ever gotten to successfully dealing with leftwing domination of universities is Viktor Orbán’s approach in Hungary”." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

JD Vance is a rightwing troll disguised as a populist. He could be our next vice-president | Jan-Werner Müllerwww.theguardian.com Having called Trump an ‘idiot’ and a potential ‘American Hitler’, the Republican senator now fawns over him

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So far this is basically the trans-bashing convention and (1) it's disgusting, and (2) I'm really not sure it's what normal people want to hear from a political party. Also if any neutral media type really care about "lowering the temperature" they should start note the hate speech in Milwaukee.

Yes, 💯 An intellectual pipeline to illiberal constitutionalism (authoritarianism disguised as a modern western state) from Eastern Europe and Russia.

J.D. Vance considers Deneen an intellectual influence A deep dive on Deneen and alternatives to liberal democracy: ‘I Don’t Want to Violently Overthrow the Government. I Want Something Far More Revolutionary.’ politi.co/43rNMF2

‘I Don’t Want to Violently Overthrow the Government. I Want Something Far More Revolutionary.’politi.co Republican politicians are embracing the “postliberal” ideas of Patrick Deneen. But just what is he calling for?

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JD Vance has talked about emulating authoritarian Orban's gutting of academic freedom in Hungary open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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Tempted to read J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy? Skip it and listen to this instead

‎If Books Could Kill: Hillbilly Elegy on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show If Books Could Kill, Ep Hillbilly Elegy - Mar 23, 2023

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Following. With great interest.

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I also want to point out that Vance's whole "professors are the enemy" schtick came after he profited enormously from universities. Nowhere was "Hillbilly Elegy" pushed more than on college campuses. He cashed in with six figure speaking fees to talk about Appalachian poverty.

Two Ivy League Universities. Hollywood, network TV, and corporate book publishing. Two cable news networks.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

‎If Books Could Kill: Hillbilly Elegy on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show If Books Could Kill, Ep Hillbilly Elegy - Mar 23, 2023

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The R responses to this event, from JD Vance to Mike Lee to Marjorie Taylor Greene have offered proof that the democracy arguments against Trump & the GOP are justified They’ve spread lies, turned up the rhetoric, & used the event to delegitimize any criticism of Trump www.vox.com/politics/360...

The Republican response to Trump’s shooting is beyond irresponsiblewww.vox.com Political leaders should try to douse the flames. The right’s leaders are fanning them.

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GWU's Program on Extremism does yeoman's work on extremist elements in the US. I see their program as adding a necessary theoretical and explanatory layer to the data points in the media and to the work done by DHS and FBI (the departments #Project2025 wants to abolish). extremism.gwu.edu

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I'm skeptical about many DEI projects in higher ed. But exaggerations and falsehoods about it have fueled a historic wave of censorship in schools + given new life to the lie that some groups are inherently unqualified for leadership positions. 1/4 shorturl.at/kWmnv

Refuting every daily instance of misinformation about DEI and higher ed is impossible. A good alternative might be to emphasize how deeply misleading even seemingly simple journalistic accounts of diversity statements—the most common target of that misinformation—can be. 2/4

In that spirit, I wrote about one paragraph each from two commonly cited articles to show, in microcosm, how erroneous many reports about DEI in university hiring have become. 3/4

Common misrepresentations of DEI protocols in university hiring are being used to manufacture pretexts for a historic spike in state censorship of academic freedom. Even skeptics of those practices--myself included--should be concerned about this trend. 4/4

There’s decades of scholarship showing how 24-hour political media profits from outrage and division. Cable news anchors lecturing the public to tone things down is really something.

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It doesn’t take a lot of digging to see how badly mainstream media has misled the public about DEI in university hiring. Closely reading just a couple of paragraphs will do. shorturl.at/i8F2x

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Arendt: "The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world--but the most probable change is to a more violent world."