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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

@llassabe.bsky.social
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historian, author, speaker, podcaster Resistance from the Right (UNC Press, 2023), Degrees of Liberation (SUNY Press), Inventing the Liberal University (UChicago Press) 🎧 American Campus Podcast linktr.ee/llassabe

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 19h
People finally understanding how Title IX Offices work
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Dr. John R. Legg @legg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I also am co-editing with @llassabe.bsky.social the book, Degrees of Liberation: Public History, Campus Activism, and the Fight for Educational Justice, under contract with SUNY Press. It examines Native, African American, Latine, and other groups’ activism as public history in higher education.
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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Had a great time w/ @llassabe.bsky.social talking about how private equity, real estate, and other industries have captured our boards of trustees + how that shapes the teaching and resarch in schools of design + climate/energy policy centers americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...
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Real estate, private equity, and Abundance with Billy Fleming - American Campus Podcast
References and suggested readings:Billy Fleming, Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2026).Marshall Terrill, “ASU ranks No. 1 national...
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@amit-singh.bsky.social is on a new episode of the American Campus Podcast, hosted by @llassabe.bsky.social, to discuss his new book Cancelled Futures: buff.ly/NOpk9Wj
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Is a degree worth its cost in the postindustrial UK? with Amit Singh - American Campus Podcast
References and suggested readings:Amit Singh. 2026. Cancelled Futures: Class, Race, and Place in Post-Industrial Britain. Princeton University Press. Paul Willis. Learning to Labor: How Working-Class…
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good to chat to @llassabe.bsky.social on @americancampus.bsky.social about Cancelled Futures (@princetonupress.bsky.social) 'Is a degree worth its cost in the postindustrial UK? with Amit Singh' americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...
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Is a degree worth its cost in the postindustrial UK? with Amit Singh - American Campus Podcast
References and suggested readings:Amit Singh. 2026. Cancelled Futures: Class, Race, and Place in Post-Industrial Britain. Princeton University Press. Paul Willis. Learning to Labor: How Working-C...
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Interesting deep dive here. I'll add that for all the assumptions out there about MAHA, young men (left) are significantly more anti-vax than women (right), and more hostile to academic science. ymrp.substack.com -> static1.squarespace.com/static/68262... and static1.squarespace.com/static/68262...
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’m drinking margaritas at a Mexican restaurant on a Friday night and the talent is a morgan wallen cover artist send help
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Keep an eye out for university events featuring them as speakers as well. This will be an important step towards laundering their reputation and returning to power.
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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Four weeks until book reviews (and more!) launch--help us reach new subscribers before then!
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 13/09/2026
Occasional reminder that the right-wing attack on higher ed, including the push for "viewpoint diversity" and "civic education," is largely a racist backlash against an increasingly non-white college-going demographic.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
At long last, The Postliberal University is available for pre-order! hep.gse.harvard.edu/979889557111...
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The Postliberal University
An urgent exploration of the political and social conditions that shape contemporary higher education governanceIn the 2010s, many state governments began to...
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Two types of academic correspondence are “apologies for the delay but I’ll need more time” and “hey do you wanna do this thing with me three years from now”
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The conflation of AI-critical with technophobic is tactical & infuriating. While accusing us of just knee-jerk hating tech, they’re enshittifying search engines, degrading digital archives, sundowning or enclosing popular tools, etc. We were all happily using that tech!
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
THREE CHEERS www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
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Letter | When Presidents Bypass Shared Governance
Members of the Johns Hopkins University AAUP respond to an interview with Ronald Daniels.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
post by leyawn

jester, roast this peasant child for saying i have no clothes on. more vulgar, jester. use the forbidden words
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In which we compare George Santos to Paul de Man www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...
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The Frenchmen with Emily Eakin - American Campus Podcast
A deep-dive into the personal lives of the famed 20th century French theorists (all men) with their newest biographer.References and suggested readings:Emily Eakin. 2026. The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I cannot really explain to someone who hasn't been steeped in this stuff for awhile how sudden and total the "go to college and get a good job" edict has collapsed. It's a vaccuum. And we know how nature feels about those. All we are throwing in there at the moment is A.I.
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@americancampus.bsky.social @llassabe.bsky.social #AcademicSky And to think, we once worried that w/ mass produced books, universities would be over Bc students could read themselves instead of listening to professors read books in lecture americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...
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How a media panic led to the modern research university with Chad Wellmon - American Campus Podcast
On the origins of the German research university and what universities should be today.References and suggested readings:Chad Wellmon. 2016. Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Inve...
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
There’s something extremely satisfying about a ~180 page nonfiction paperback, I can’t explain it
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Traveling back to Massachusetts tomorrow, so once again y’all get #ScholarSunday on a Saturday! Here’s my 289th thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
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#ScholarSunday Thread 289 (once more on a Saturday, 8/15/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
Traveling back to Massachusetts tomorrow, so once again y’all get #ScholarSunday on a Saturday! Here’s my 289th thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from...
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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Drafting the Past rebrand/new site is going live tomorrow! This is extremely exciting, but also means that I am trying to keep track of 6,000 tiny details while my 3-year-old covers my living room in an entire roll of painter's tape.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
One of the more insidious ideas being incepted via right & center attacks on HigherEd is that college experiences are homogenous. The heterogeneity of the US system is one of its greatest strengths. Their goal of homogenization is served by an illusion of homogeny, just homogeny of the wrong sort.
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Maybe it’s because I spent all of woke 1 in Mississippi, but I have very different memories of its supposed excesses
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
For a one time fee of $5,000, I will decorate your incoming freshman’s dorm room. This is a spectacularly good price.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 08/08/2026
Commissioning a transphobic bigot to write an article about a UK academic scandal to somehow indict US higher education (a completely different system about which this case has literally no bearing) for being too woke is peak New York Times brain. Not a great thing, just an unfortunate one.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I am so thrilled about the next chapter of Drafting the Past that @mkn.bsky.social and I are working on together. I can't wait to tell you more about it as we lead up to the launch!
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
We have run out of movie titles. SEO is all that’s left
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In England they’re driving cars you’ve never heard of
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
it's a monday afternoon at the end of july, of course we're writing syllabi against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, PLEASE SEND! against-a-i.com
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AGAINST AI -
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
What do you think the moral panics will be about gen a when it’s their turn
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Which campus panic decade are you anti #MeToo/BLMer, 10s post-9/11 patriot, 00s anti PC future billionaire, 90s neocon, 80s anti affirmative action racist, 70s imperialist war hawk, 60s second red scare anticommunist, 50s libertarian, 40s patriotic mother, 30s fundamentalist, 20s >>
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Atlantic (2026) and Peter Thiel (1995) bravely ask
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Psst those intellectual diversity centers are just one more rightwing grift TIL Rufo’s speaking fee is $50k
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
My prediction for how this will play out: Most colleges will doubledown on AI even as employers realize their graduates know next to nothing. Elite colleges will market themselves as being non-AI. Not using AI will be a bespoke luxury commodity that's highly sought after.
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Do I really “have a good eye” or is this something antique shops like to say
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I may not agree with my friend here on everything but I admire the zeal with which he devours human babies in pursuit of his principles
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 12/07/2026
I think that if a major disciplinary organization rescinds a book prize, there should be some statement or explanation of why that happened. This sort of thing shouldn‘t just be done ‘quietly.’
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I’m saddened to announce the passing of my work colleague, The Zodiac Killer. While we were often on opposing sides of the business, I always enjoyed his silly little scavenger hunts.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
two percent of united states senators are currently dead. check on your senator today!
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Diva down
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
open.substack.com/pub/uncloset...
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
“Moderate” is not a statement about your beliefs, but about your position in relation to others. In a world of runaway authoritarianism that means being dragged rightward like a tin can on a string behind a car
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Friday analog
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/07/2026
Every conservative pundit’s working overtime to try to make Platner’s sexual assault the face of the New Democratic Party and Donny can’t help but go “well hold on a minute, maybe she made it up”. What an incredible political specimen.
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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Atlantic is contributing to the literacy crisis by endlessly posting moral panic clickbait that’s more interested in making a gratuitous number of references to the Ivy League, the canon, and how well read the author is than actually offering new or insightful commentary.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This week’s (sliiiiightly delayed because I don’t know to use a microphone jack) episode has it all: Nazis, tenure, Willing F Buckley Jr again sorry, seemingly gay love letters and boy breakups, a JFK assassination conspiracy, knives, lies, etc. Most importantly, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revilo_...
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Revilo P. Oliver - Wikipedia
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The best part comes a year later when reimbursements (most of which get denied on technicality) get taxed as income
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