Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Bucknell 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. 292
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Indeed, there's more suicide and deaths by depression there than in blue, progressive communities. So how are people attracting men to humanities courses successfully? When I've raised the question locally, I get mostly indifference from colleagues or even hear relief at this state of affairs. 030
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 10/07/2025I'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. 120
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Check it out: keywords.nyupress.org/keywords-con...keywords.nyupress.orgAntisemitic (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... 030
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 25/05/2025A little self promotion: The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr. nyupress.org/978147984253... 010
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025And get this, @mattseybold.bsky.social , I'm the only Americanist left with specialization before 1900! 130
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Exactly. Boo indeed. Time for alumni to get real. 020
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Fwiw, the Bucknell English Department was just denied funding to replace our retiring Shakespeare expert. 451
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Another sign that we're slipping into being a very different country. The Establishment clause is central to what made the US distinct. 050
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Thanks for your comments. But actually, democracies face the chance of becoming something entirely other than themselves with each election or constitutional convention. States are not people. 100
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Our OpEd on Bucknell faculty's endorsement of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism was published in the Philly Inquirer today: www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...inquirer.comOur campus is trying to clarify the distinction between antisemitism and legitimate debate about the state of Israel | OpinionThree 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. 162
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Powerful letter from Stockton University faculty: lithub.com/silence-is-c...lithub.comSilence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against FascismWe 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… 020
Reposted by Michael J DrexlerDan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Breaking: 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.”washingtonpost.comRFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientistMarks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.” 11933225213318
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Worth reposting: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWe need an exodus from Zionism | Naomi KleinThis Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name 041
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 28/03/2025If 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. 040
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Fortunately, our faculty meetings are limited to two 50 minute sessions per month. They're still torture. 110
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 18/03/2025I think this is a strong argument, too. I feel in the current environment, we need something concrete to fight back with. Something that carves out protections. Not so much what it is, but what it is not, so to speak. 100
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Bucknell 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. 120
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Wait... The Democratic response to Trump was nostalgia for Reagan? 120
Reposted by Michael J DrexlerScott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 04/03/2025That’s right. 🇺🇦 3199149816910
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Very sorry for your loss. I loved your father's work. 000
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5callsbuttondown.com5 Calls NewsletterThe 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 010
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Excellent book review of screed about 'the ideology of settle colonialism'. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...bostonreview.netThe Reality of Settler Colonialism - Boston ReviewWriters like Adam Kirsch mock the idea to demonize critics of Israel. The phenomenon itself remains. 020
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Saw the powerful film, No Other Land, tonight. m.imdb.com/title/tt3095... brutal and harrowing. It's time for things to change. Free Palestine!m.imdb.comNo Other Land (2024) ⭐ 8.3 | Documentary1h 32m 030
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 15/02/2025I 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. 130
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 14/01/2025from 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." 110
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Elon Musk spent $250 million to elect Trump. American democracy is a complete farce. 250
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Latest 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. 130
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Despite a degree in Early American literature, I have been teaching advanced dentistry since the Bush administration! 010
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Reading entry about Elbridge Gerry today in Plumer's sketches. XYZ Affair play by play from the man who gave us Gerrymandering. 020
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Israeli expert on Holocaust assets that campaign against Palestinians qualified as a genocide: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240430-yes...middleeastmonitor.com‘Yes, it is genocide’ in Gaza says Israeli professor of Holocaust studiesIn 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... 240
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Current 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. 240
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 13/11/2024If 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. 380
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 11/11/2024And those who remained were murdered by Nazis in a Polish forest in 1941 outside of Hrubieszhow. 140
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 11/11/2024My own family arrived under similar circumstances in the 1890s. 130
Michael J Drexler @mjdrexler.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Worth reposting, because Stephen Miller is vile: www.politico.com/magazine/sto...politico.comStephen 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. 160