Trump’s Anti-DEI Directives Trample on Freedom ⁦The Chronicle of Higher Education⁩ chronicle.com/article/trumps…

Thrilled to announce that I'm joining AAC&U as Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives, working with President Lynn Pasquerella and across the organization on a variety of projects regarding AAC&U's mission of liberal education. aacu.org/newsroom/aacu-…

"Those People" will explore the causes and consequences of the growing sociological distance between communities, institutions and stakeholders tied closely to the symbolic economy versus those who are not. More info on my website, here: musaalgharbi.com/2025/06/16/boo…

Powerful essay about the importance of teaching American students history in an international context. Authoritarianism Is Made—and It Can Be Unmade newrepublic.com/article/198376… via The New Republic

It was a pleasure talking with Jeffrey Aaron Snyder and Amna Khalid about the threats to expression in higher ed today — both those from abroad, and home-brewed. We really could’ve (and almost did) chat for hours!

I enjoyed Amna Khalid 's podcast Banished on the state of publishing and cancel culture in the US. It is well worth a listen. open.substack.com/pub/banished/p…

A very good interview by Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder with Adam Szetela , whose book; That Book Is Dangerous!: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing, came out in August. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ban…

In the latest episode of Banished Jeffrey Aaron Snyder & I talk to Adam Szetela about his fascinating book on the effects of cancel culture in the publishing industry banished.substack.com/p/that-book-is…

"Peer review, I think, is the fundamental conservative mechanism of the academy" open.spotify.com/episode/09mUJr…

Fwiw, my answer to the question posed below is: 100% yes. Institutions of higher learning select for excellent sheep (musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/censorship-i…), and the longer people stay in these institutions, and the higher they climb therein, the more sheepish they become

Some more good insights on academia's courage problem, from Musa al-Gharbi, Amna Khalid, and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder. My take is that academics underestimate their own career incentives for courage, but institutions also don't create sufficient incentives for courage, from the

Podcast: Are Too Many Professors Excellent Sheep? dlvr.it/TNzvNF

Lepore regrets not speaking up about what she saw as the chilling, *prosecutorial* environment on campuses starting back in 2014. This podcast Amna Khalid & I recently released on why some profs are reluctant to speak their minds may be of interest: banished.substack.com/p/are-too-many…