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Rob Watson @shakespeerreview.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

My take on the "Hamnet" movie is now up at lareviewofbooks.org, if you're interested.

Rob Watson @shakespeerreview.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

My review of a controversial new book about US politics over the past 5 years is now up on the Los Angeles Review of Books site. Please have a look at: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

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The Goldilocks of Bothsidesism | Los Angeles Review of Books

Robert N. Watson investigates Thomas Chatterton Williams’s “Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse.”

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Rob Watson @shakespeerreview.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The guy whose Trump University went bankrupt and owed its students $25 million for defrauding them thinks he should be micro-managing our country’s top-ranked public university (UCLA) and the world’s top-ranked university (Harvard) – and destroying them (and their life-saving research) if resisted.

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Rob Watson @shakespeerreview.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

But, NY Times headline writer notwithstanding, these "stops" (which are much more than stops) are precisely NOT "indiscriminate." They are targeted racial discrimination! (Attn. NYTimesPitchbot!)

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Rob Watson @shakespeerreview.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Aren’t these the same "conservative" judges who made it illegal for college admissions to consider an applicant’s race, despite the fact that Black/Latino/Native Am applicants are disproportionately likely to have endured burdens and obstacles that the average white applicant wouldn’t have endured?

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Rob Watson @shakespeerreview.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

That 2-second glimpse of Trump grimacing sourly at the moment Carlos Alcaraz won the US Open reminded me of Hitler seeing Jesse Owens dominate the Olympics. I guess Trump was rooting for a big very white Sinner to beat a guy with one of those, you know, drug-smuggler names.

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Rob Watson @shakespeerreview.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

From my 2019 book: "The strong tradition of academic freedom in the United States, which confers far greater liberty from government control than in most other countries, seems to have made US universities by far the best in the world." At least 3/4 of the top unis by most surveys. Now canceled.

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Rob Watson @shakespeerreview.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Also Team Trump: If you educators don’t do EVERYTHING to protect a historically oppressed race (such as Jewish Americans), including punishing anybody who laments the agony in Gaza, we will destroy you. You have an obvious obligation to teach the right attitude on such politically charged stuff! 2/2

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Rob Watson @shakespeerreview.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Trump: If you educators try to do ANYTHING to protect a historically oppressed race (such as Black Americans), or even teach their history, we'll destroy you financially and any other way we can! How dare you teach people some supposedly right attitude on such politically charged stuff! Yet.. 1/2

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Rob Watson @shakespeerreview.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Historical perspective on the attack on our universities (from my 2019 book, "Cultural Evolution and its Discontents"):

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Rob Watson @shakespeerreview.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Loving the climate under these skies, and my dogs agree!

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