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Michael J Drexler

@mjdrexler.bsky.social
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English Professor at Bucknell University. Author of The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr.

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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
At No Kings in Raleigh, NC!
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Bucknell University is shutting down our university press. Huge disappointment and big blow to 18th century studies and Latin American studies, two signature strengths of BU Press.
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I'm genuinely curious how my academic friends are responding to the absence of men from literature courses. I have a theory seminar this fall: 12 women. I read D. French's piece that concedes that conservative, religious, and rural culture is not solving the fatalism reigning among young men today.
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Check it out: keywords.nyupress.org/keywords-con...
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Antisemitic (June 2025)
The terms anti-Semite, antisemitic and antisemitism are tied up with relatively modern ideas of the racial and national identity of Jews as well as the fight for their acceptance in European and North...
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Even Ahab had his humanities...
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Fwiw, the Bucknell English Department was just denied funding to replace our retiring Shakespeare expert.
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Our OpEd on Bucknell faculty's endorsement of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism was published in the Philly Inquirer today: www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Our campus is trying to clarify the distinction between antisemitism and legitimate debate about the state of Israel | Opinion
Three Bucknell University professors write that their efforts came as a direct response to the silencing of critical voices related to Israel and Palestine on college campuses.
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Powerful letter from Stockton University faculty: lithub.com/silence-is-c...
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Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism
We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi…
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
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RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Worth reposting: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We need an exodus from Zionism | Naomi Klein
This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
If you get the chance, see The Palestine Exception, a remarkable documentary about the student movement for Palestine, especially in the wake of the Gaza genocide. We brought the film to Bucknell yesterday and we were treated to a Q&A with one of the directors, Jan Haaken.
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Bucknell University faculty endorse the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, aiming to protect the rights of students, faculty, and staff to speak out in support of Palestinian liberation. The JDA is an alternative to the contradictory and increasingly abused IHRA definition.
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Wait... The Democratic response to Trump was nostalgia for Reagan?
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 04/03/2025
That’s right. 🇺🇦
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls
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5 Calls Newsletter
The 5 Calls Newsletter breaks down what your representatives are voting on and what you can do to influence them. From your friends at 5 Calls
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Excellent book review of screed about 'the ideology of settle colonialism'. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Reality of Settler Colonialism - Boston Review
Writers like Adam Kirsch mock the idea to demonize critics of Israel. The phenomenon itself remains.
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Saw the powerful film, No Other Land, tonight. m.imdb.com/title/tt3095... brutal and harrowing. It's time for things to change. Free Palestine!
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No Other Land (2024) ⭐ 8.3 | Documentary
1h 32m
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I have thoughts about Trump threatening to defund schools that require COVID vaccines. If it didn't threaten people I love, I would say here's some rope. But it does. This is insanity.
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The rule of law is dead.
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
from the Plumer sketches on Timothy Dwight: As a poet he never rose to the highest or sunk to the lowest. His poetry is too artificial and mechannical. It is strained, unnatural, and distinguished for its unbroken monotomy. In his attempts at wit he seldom succeeded."
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Elon Musk spent $250 million to elect Trump. American democracy is a complete farce.
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Latest gem from Plumer's biographical sketches: Solomon Nildet, He died in Laurens District, in South Carolina, October 16th 1815 aged one hundred forty three years.
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Reading entry about Elbridge Gerry today in Plumer's sketches. XYZ Affair play by play from the man who gave us Gerrymandering.
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Israeli expert on Holocaust assets that campaign against Palestinians qualified as a genocide: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240430-yes...
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‘Yes, it is genocide’ in Gaza says Israeli professor of Holocaust studies
In a blistering essay on the mass killing and devastation in Gaza, Amos Goldberg, professor of Holocaust History at the department of Jewish history and contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew...
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Current project is using Transkribus to make William Plumber's Biographical Sketches available online. Plumer is best known for his memoranda of his time in Congress during the Jefferson administration, including fascinating notes about Aaron Burr during the Chase impeachment trial in 1804.
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
If you haven't heard of the Heritage Foundation sponsored Project Esther, look it up and be concerned. The plan is to label all Palestinian activists 'Hamas supporting' agents. This would ensnare both Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace among others.
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Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Worth reposting, because Stephen Miller is vile: www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
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Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
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