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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

Also, in some ways, the short section on Socrates at the beginning of the Classical Natural Right chapter is the key section in the book, and I wish I had said a bit more about it, but we simply could not discuss everything there. Thanks to Sam & Matt who are smart, fun, generous

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

In brief, NR&H is one of those books you need to read for yourself, and the only real response to it is to then study the books it itself interprets and think through the problem of natural right for yourself in our time and place.

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

I think that Richard Kennington's classic article on the book, Velkley's article and book, and Cathy and Michael Zuckert's writings on Strauss are some of the best guides. I also really like Jeff Bernstein's forthcoming book on Adorno and Strauss, which I blurbed.

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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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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Second the honourable member from NYC

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I wonder how he'll feel about NGE?

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

He's gonna advocate for the coercive rearrangement of desire

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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I'm expecting "The Will to Change" next

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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

That would ironically show a wonderful love of humanity overall, lol

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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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Matt Dinan @mattdinan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

My beloved friend Samuel Stoner is a Kant scholar who deserves a tender good night from Richie.

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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

Yeah, that part is sort of difficult.

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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-...