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Sam Cohen

@samcohen.bsky.social
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Teaching; writing about books, book banning, book publishing, music; editing New American Canon series at U of Iowa P. Views mine, not my employer's. 50 Essays 8th ed. out soon. samuelscohen.com

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 2h
The compounding moral and political failure of our era in one headline.
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ICYMI
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 12h
Mail call!
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think it’s bad that a pogromnik is president.
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We need to call it something else A wisdom spot
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Jesus christ That's some high T lethality right there
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Note how in all of this, Vance's comments are suffused with the rhetoric of 1930s Nazi eugenics, including the "elite human being" (in German, Herrenmensch or Übermensch). Straight from Curtis Yarvin, and Elon Musk, by the way. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yale Law School, ladies and gentlemen.
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A thing I wrote last year on America First higher ed muse.jhu.edu/article/968777
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
muse.jhu.edu/article/968777
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/jcsa...
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This year’s “Missouri’s Own Panel” features four local authors, including Professor Samuel Cohen of the University of Missouri-Columbia, who edited the anthology “Banning Books in America.” The program is Nov. 6 at 1 p.m. at the St. Louis Jewish Community Center. stljewishlight.org/opinion/miss...
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Missouri schools pulled ‘Maus.’ Jewish St. Louis fought back. - St. Louis Jewish Light
After Missouri schools pulled books including “Maus,” Jewish St. Louis advocates are pushing back against censorship and book bans.
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Worth a read www.nytimes.com/athletic/765...
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The English soccer star who vanished for 40 years to hide his secret: ‘I was living in fear’ (Gift Article)
Tony Powell lost all contact with his family and left behind his entire life for four decades after leaving Norwich City in 1981.
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Great conversation, wonderful hosts, no superpowers were used
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Clever of you guys to put me in that all plastic room so I couldn't move anything with my mind
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The number of dangers and the amount of work AI is already causing and will cause us is astounding. Yet we keep getting advice on how to make it work for us. FU if that is your advice.
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Opinion | A.I. Is Lying to You. Here’s How to Fight Back. (Gift Article)
In the age of A.I. disinformation, we all need to use the tools of counterespionage to find the truth.
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
defector.com/lebron-james...
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LeBron James Is Commuting In A Fanatics Helicopter | Defector
LeBron James wasn’t pretending. He really is taking daily helicopter rides from his home in New York City to the offices of his new employer, the Philadelphia 76ers. Since the start of October, the Le...
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
open.spotify.com/album/3H0NNA...
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Rattlesnakes (Remastered) - Album by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions | Spotify
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions · album · 1984 · 10 songs
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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
[I get home to find a note on the refrigerator that says "I'm leaving and i'm taking the kids"] me: [unplugs fridge from power outlet] you're not going anywhere, you piece of shit
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pt. II bsky.app/profile/prop...
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What a fun time we're having in America
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump stole millions of dollars from us to buy those campaign ads. Of course he won't pay us back. He's a criminal who should be in prison right now.
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Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Like why exactly am I also on your customer service call. Why is that
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good thing to repost during Banned Books Week
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Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing @bloomsburylit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Are you based in the Phoenix area and want to learn more about the threat that book bans pose to American democracy? Come to @changinghands.bsky.social this Wednesday at 7 for a conversation with Samuel Cohen (Banning Books in America) and Josh Coleman. asuevents.asu.edu/event/book-b...
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Book Bans in America: Reading and Teaching in Censored Times | ASU Events
How do book bans affect teaching practices?
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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
time for a different group of people to write a report on higher ed
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026
The Cornell report on the Future of the American University is a disaster, mainstreaming and endorsing profoundly reactionary right-wing diagnoses of higher education that have no business in a serious report on what higher ed is or should become.
Compare, for example, the Progressive Policy Institute’s report on The Distortion of American Studies
with a similar study of American political science from the Goldwater Institute: Richard D. Kahlenberg
and Lief Lin, “The Distortion of American Studies: How the Field’s Leading Journal Has Embraced a
Worldview as Slanted as Donald Trump’s,” Progressive Policy Institute, January 22, 2026,
https://www.progressivepolicy.org/the-distortion-of-american-studies; Timothy K. Minella, “Peer Review
Gone Wild: Flagship Political Science Journal Shows How Academic Gatekeepers Promote Ideology Over
Scholarship,” Goldwater Institute, December 2, 2025, https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/policy-
report/peer-review-gone-wild/.12 Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey, “Five Reasons Viewpoint Diversity Makes Academic Sense,”
American Enterprise Institute, January 26, 2026, https://cfau.aei.org/five-reasons-viewpoint-diversity-
makes-academic-sense.
13 Richard D. Kahlenberg and Lief Lin, “The Distortion of American Studies: How the Field’s Leading
Journal Has Embraced a Worldview as Slanted as Donald Trump’s,” Progressive Policy Institute, January
22, 2026, https://www.progressivepolicy.org/the-distortion-of-american-studies
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026
That all of these universities producing reports on what the future of higher ed should be are collaborating with the American Enterprise Institute is a tell that they see this moment of higher ed "reform" as an opportunity to entrench reactionary policies and undermine the humanities further.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026
Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities
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comissourian.bsky.social @comissourian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
University of Missouri President Mun Choi emailed Attorney General Catherine Hanaway about downtown Columbia safety concerns.
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Missouri AG's probe of Reign Bar began after an email from the university president
University of Missouri President Mun Choi emailed Attorney General Catherine Hanaway about downtown Columbia safety concerns.
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I know what you can eat at your meetings youtube.com/shorts/HiR1-...
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Mitch Hedberg on club sandwich culture & origins #mitchhedberg #clubsandwich #standupcomedy #funny
YouTube video by Jamie Kindleyside
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hewing to his brand
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The former commander of the US Border Control under Trump is a big fan of Remigration. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This detailed report tracks the rise in the term’s usage on Twitter. Unsurprisingly, Elon Musk played an important role in normalizing the use of the term in 2024. www.csohate.org/press-releas...
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New Report: Remigration and the Globalization of Far-Right Deportation Narratives
This report traces how “remigration” evolved from a fringe far-right concept into mainstream political discourse, mapping its spread across Europe and the US (2010–2025).
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The phrase “ethnic cleansing” appears in the first sentence of the Wikipedia definition.
Remigration is a far-right concept referring to the ethnic cleansing'"! via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry. [21[3) Originating in Europe, the concept has since spread to the United States and Canada, where it has gained increasing prominence, and is especially popular within the Identitarian movement. 41[5] Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture. 6]
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Comparisons between MAGA and McCarthyism are dime a dozen. What's novel now is that today's Republicans are acting like McCarthy allies in the period between "have you no decency" and the censure vote that formally ended his reign of terror. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...
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Republican Disarray And The Second Failure Of McCarthyism
The missing ingredient, for now, is consequences.
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thanks, @buffalolibrary.bsky.social!
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don't want to hear another word about how when we get these people out of party, we shouldn't punish them for what they've done
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don't give Hitler all the credit
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Truly one of the worst people in public life in this country
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What a country
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friend of the pod 🫛 @rebeccaschmitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“…no sportos, no motorheads, no geeks, no sluts, no bloods, no wasteoids, no dweebies, no dickheads”
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think we all saw that coming
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