And we're live! Announcing the launch of @aacu's new Advancing Public Trust in Higher Education (APT) initiative, which I co-lead with Kathryn Enke. You'll be hearing a lot more about APT in the coming months.

@simon_bazelon It was possible in 2020 to make a data-driven argument that woke was popular, and there was a natural response to try to institutionalize it. Why didn't that work? How do we know in advance whether voters mean it when they say their views have changed?

Bill Gates is walking back the Climate Change end-of-the-world FEAR mongering. It was never about science, just an agenda. Why is he doing this now? Four G Dave tells it like it is...

@simon_bazelon I think those polling numbers in 2020 tell a more complicated story and muddle what progressives should do in future. If the public suddenly agrees with you on cultural issues, do you refuse to capitalize because the public might later change their minds?

@simon_bazelon The backlash against those views was swift and brutal, but they were real if short-lived. I think people who agreed with those views were thrilled to have the public suddenly on their side and then reacted very slowly to mounting evidence that their position was unpopular again.

My question for @simon_bazelon is that I think progressives were reacting to a real phenomenon in voter attitudes around 2020. Voters told pollsters in that year that they didn't trust the police, that they did trust public schools, that Anthony Fauci had over 80% popularity.

@JadeAtrophis The October sun was setting over the Pennsylvania farm, and J.D. Vance was having what he would later describe to his wife as "one of the weirder afternoons." "Mr. President, if you could just stand between these two pumpkins—" "J.D., J.D., relax. I know how to do a photo op."

Higher Education’s Compact with America: Shared Principles for the Common Good https://t.co/XlMdn5t67V

Great piece by @Campus_Compact's @bobbielaur in response to the other "Compact" being proffered to universities by the administration. https://t.co/phWRjLpfoE

My favorite story about this is that James Watt, a young engineering professor at the University of Edinborough who was originally hired to repair the buildings, befriended the much older economics professor Adam Smith and became inspired by him to perfect the steam engine.

I enjoyed speaking with @JSchulmanHall for @masslivenews about how the Professor Watchlist and Canary Mission get us farther from, not closer to, a free exchange of ideas on campus.

The surest way to screw up the world’s best technical school is to let feds tell them how to run it. Congrats to my alma mater for turning down a bribe to let the executive branch dictate what happens on its campus. A lot of things are wrong in 🇺🇸, but MIT is not one of them.

“Surviving for a purpose means keeping the mission of an institution at the forefront of decision-making.” Read AAC&U's @jeremycyoung “Survive for a Purpose.” https://t.co/Hkv3Sj8a0t #LibEdMag

We got some coverage for the new Advancing Public Trust initiative in @TheEDULedger (formerly Diverse)!

AAC&U Launches Initiative to Restore Public Trust in Higher Education: https://t.co/np9aNsIZlF

As colleges consider the "Compact," I write @aacu, "higher education leaders need to make hard choices that will allow their institutions to survive—but they must remember that their goal is to survive for a purpose, not merely to continue to exist." https://t.co/vibucClCcJ

Our statement @aacu: "In renewing the call for constructive engagement, AAC&U also strongly opposes any alternative that would erode or eviscerate essential freedoms and promote instability."

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.@JamesTalarico on corporate media executives firing Jimmy Kimmel and selling out freedom of speech: “I’m against cancel culture, whether it’s from the left or the right.  But this is the worst kind of cancel culture — the kind that comes from the top.”

Enjoyed speaking with Gianna Jakubowski for this piece in @gwhatchet! https://t.co/0Kr3O0M2XJ

As someone who has disagreed profoundly with Charlie Kirk and his allies in the past, I feel nothing but sorrow and grief at his senseless murder. I hope we are still a nation capable of comprehending and condemning the human loss of this tragedy, whatever our political beliefs.

Very excited to share the cover of my new book, “Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class.” It’s due out in April, and you can check out the summary and pre-order here if it’s of interest. https://t.co/mmuLbGXZ8W

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