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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Dartmouth provost's decision to stop writing by substituting AI-assisted text production is a great opportunity to have the kinds of conversations every institution should be having about AI use in higher education. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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Dartmouth’s provost has stopped “writing.”

Dartmouth’s provost raises a tension we should examine.

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Happy to appear on Cincinnati Edition with Walt Hunter and Tricia Bertram Gallant to talk about creative alternatives to AI cheating: www.wvxu.org/show/cincinn...

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Creative solutions to thwart AI cheating

Professors finding new ways around AI cheating in the classroom.

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I agree with almost everything here (the struggle doesn't have to necessarily arise from research)

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yes, as @biblioracle.bsky.social points out--the only way to counter the desire to cheat is with the desire for learning

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 17/08/2026

“Today’s educational problems are often attributed to a deficit of focus or attention, but attention is an anemic way to understand what allows education to transform people,” Matt Dinan writes.

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Opinion | To Save Higher Ed, Professors Need to Get a Little Weird

Teachers need to model the passion they want to see.

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🔥 "To be a realist about higher education is to acknowledge that the challenge of our moment is not primarily intellectual, but sentimental — spiritual, if you will. In the algorithmic age, effective teaching is affective teaching."

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

ABSOLUTELY. From Matt Dinan: "The challenge of our moment is not primarily intellectual, but sentimental...Passion creates a unity of purpose and urgency that is the antidote to the feckless, superficial distraction of the algorithmic age." #education www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/o...

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Opinion | To Save Higher Ed, Professors Need to Get a Little Weird

Teachers need to model the passion they want to see.

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Andrew Moore | Great Books Prof @greatbooksprof.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My friend and colleague Matt Dinan just published an excellent piece in the New York Times about the challenge of engaging students in the “algorithmic age”, and about how our Great Books program at St. Thomas attempts to meet that challenge. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/o...

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Matt Dinan: “The passions are nonconformist. To be moved is to be a little bit weird.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/o...

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Opinion | To Save Higher Ed, Professors Need to Get a Little Weird (Gift Article)

Teachers need to model the passion they want to see.

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

For @nytimes.com I wrote about what great teaching looks like in the algorithmic age, with a little help from The Brothers K www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/o...

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Opinion | To Save Higher Ed, Professors Need to Get a Little Weird

Teachers need to model the passion they want to see.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

And episodes w/ @mattsitman.bsky.social, @samadlerbell.bsky.social & @mattdinan.bsky.social on Know Your Enemy; Alan Boswell & Babatunde Afolabi on @crisisgroup.org's The Horn podcast; @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social, Sanam Amin & @sophiejrigney.bsky.social on Called to the Bar...

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I've published a sequel to my essay on teaching writing in the age of AI ("Permission Structures"). I have puckishly called this one "Choice Architecture." Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/mattdina...

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Choice Architecture

How AI Skeptic Professors Can Help Students Want to Learn

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'm on the latest episode of Know Your Enemy trying my best to help navigate Strauss' Natural Right and History: know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/leo...

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I'm one of the Canadian professors here talking about how AI is changing education.

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Martyn Wendell Jones @martynwendell.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Douthat did his best to bear up under the peal of silence during his recent podcast chat with Martin Heidegger (appreciate @mattdinan.bsky.social for transcribing) mattdinan.substack.com/p/interestin...

Heidegger: I have explained the theme of my Rectorate in my inaugural address, “What is Metaphysics?”

Douthat: The “nothing nothings?” Or do you mean “The much-lauded ‘academic freedom’ will be expelled from the German university; for this freedom was not genuine because it was only negative”? Do you think, you know, the Trump Administration has been successful, finally, in instituting some of the reforms you’ve been advocating? Do you think that HHS under RFK Jr., isn’t actually a view of science that incorporates the nothing?

Heidegger: I’m not really familiar with the American university system.

Douthat: But don’t you think you, maybe your bedfellows, have been at least a bit influential on…Stephen Miller, at least?

Heidegger: Clears his throat

Douthat: Ok, ok. So I understand if you don’t want to talk about that. But

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Let's be totally clear: the ideology of these technologists is radically anti-humanist. Education, work, and now even human metabolism are a problem for these people *because they detest humanity as such*

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I am almost grateful because it's never been easier to show what education *actually* is

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."

John Mitnick
@JohnMitnick
I helped to establish DHS in 2002 and 2003 and later had the homeland security portfolio as a White House Counsel and served as General Counsel of the Department.

I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty.

Impeach and remove Trump—now.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
@gtconway3d
The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts.

The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him.

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Happy first day of classes! I am teaching The Prince today, a book which is unfortunately utterly devoid of contemporary relevance

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

At least the woke censors have finally figured out that some things are genuinely subversive

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

A total delight to talk education, the great books, AI, and passion with Matt and Sam in the latest KYE: www.patreon.com/posts/147187...

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Great Books and the AI Apocalypse (w/ Matt Dinan) | Know Your Enemy

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

This Know Your Enemy episode with @mattdinan.bsky.social is everything I hoped for from the description. In our response to AI in education this is the attitude we must take, attack the demand side by showing students there is something much better. www.patreon.com/posts/great-...

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Great Books and the AI Apocalypse (w/ Matt Dinan) | Know Your Enemy

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Frank, I am very disappointed in you.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 17/12/2025

[hollywood voiceover voice] in a shocking twist, francis fukuyama *is* the last man

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The Republic Book IX remains the most essential political reading of the current era.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Posting this important @mattdinan.bsky.social piece again. I recognized the challenge in the extract 20 years ago because in the courses I taught, students were all conscripts, not volunteers. I had to introduce them to the pleasures and challenges of writing. mattdinan.substack.com/p/the-ai-ske...

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Thanks, John. I think this situation can actually be a huge opportunity for us to re-commit to authentic liberal arts education.

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I have a new article called “Kierkegaardian Individualism and the Political” at the Canterbury Institute at Oxford’s PolUtica and Poetics journal www.politicsandpoetics.co.uk/current-issu...

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Current Issue | Politics & Poetics

A journal of the humanities.

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I started to write something strident about the Harper's piece, then changed direction and did this instead: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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In the beginning computer scientists made the internet.

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

“In the beginning computer scientists made the internet.” @mattdinan.bsky.social with the creation story for our times. mattdinan.substack.com/p/nein?utm_c...

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In the beginning computer scientists made the internet.

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E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"Now, human beings had long ago started to think that they were like packets of packets of data. And ChatGPT, being craftier than other applications, was actually packets of data." @mattdinan.bsky.social with an excellent word this morning:

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Foreign interference and the viral “Pencil-gate” conspiracy theory at Canada’s polling stations are connected. I wrote on shenanigans at the polls and how to do our part to keep elections secure for @thestar.com (And, I successfully snuck in the word “pollercoaster”…big win!)

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There are good reasons for not taking selfies while we vote. Here’s why

This writ period, Canadian electors have had to navigate a steeplechase of deepfakes, conspiracy theories, intimidation and foreign interference. Security measures have proved resilient, but a pair of...

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Use the provided pencil. Or bring your own pen. However you choose to mark your ballot, as long as it's just one mark, clearly in the designated circle, it will be counted, cross checked, & witnessed. Our ballot counting is *very* secure contrary to conspiracy-theorising on X, Facebook & tiktok.

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Pen or pencil? Elections Canada says it doesn’t matter when casting a ballot

OTTAWA - Elections Canada wants you to know your ballot will count whether you mark it with a pen or with a pencil.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

It struck a chord because it's true. As I write in More Than Words, the chief benefit of LLMs to writing (and teaching writing) is it forces us to examine what we value in writing. We should be building statues of the students who remain proud to be themselves & encourage others to join them.

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Here’s an observation that’s closing in on 80k likes on twitter:

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Very proud of my ALMA MATER for its PRINCIPLED STAND

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Whether it's winning the Masters, or bravely settling for Yale after not getting in to Harvard, people named Rory are inspirations to us all.

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

What do students use AI for in higher ed? -cheating -depriving themselves of developing higher order skills -avoiding thinking All along these tools have been sold as freedom from drudgery, but they're actually "freedom" from the ends of education.

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

BE COOL! The Sicilians are backwards and dispersed, and the Athenian Empire will soon be greater than ever before!

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Could God impose a tariff so high that not even he could pay it?

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

One of the worst things about this is all of the boomers who are now going to wait even longer to retire

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I have been hard on Canada, but let's face it: there are two countries in North America that have had constitutional crises in 2024-5, and in only one of them did the constitution work exactly the way it was supposed to

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