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Come One, Come All!* | Alex Bronzini-Vender
All were welcome at WelcomeFest 2025—except for the “groups.”
thebaffler.com
Earlier this month, @thebaffler.com sent me to WelcomeFest, America’s “largest gathering of centrist Democrats” thebaffler.com/latest/come-...
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No, Harvard hasn’t abandoned the study of “western civilization.” By @alexbronzini.bsky.social
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Reports of Western Civilization’s Death at Harvard Are Greatly Exaggerated
Claims that Harvard no longer teaches Western civilization are wrong. The real threat to the humanities is collapsing student demand.
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January 6, 2026 at 3:43 PM
No, Harvard hasn’t abandoned the study of “western civilization.” By @alexbronzini.bsky.social
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A great response to Hankins: washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/06/h.... Correctly notes that the collapse of faculty hiring and humanities' enrollments as structurally key to all these "debates."
Reports of Western Civilization’s Death at Harvard Are Greatly Exaggerated
Claims that Harvard no longer teaches Western civilization are wrong. The real threat to the humanities is collapsing student demand.
washingtonmonthly.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:44 PM
A great response to Hankins: washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/06/h.... Correctly notes that the collapse of faculty hiring and humanities' enrollments as structurally key to all these "debates."
I’ll take it
While it's apparent this 2nd-year student's view of higher education had been greatly informed by the online discourse of "wokeism", it's still an interesting look at how, from a student's perspective, there's a view that the "free inquiry" that was promised is really just conservative ideology.
Opinion | Harvard’s Anti-Woke Era Has Arrived. It’s Even More Stifling.
Wasn’t this supposed to be the golden era of free expression on college campuses?
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December 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I’ll take it
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As some of us have been arguing for a long time: “the idea that speech should be judged by how it feels to protected groups, rather than by its truth or falsehood, is exactly the standard the right spent a decade railing against.”
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Opinion | Harvard’s New Campus Orthodoxy Is Even More Stifling Than the Old
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
As some of us have been arguing for a long time: “the idea that speech should be judged by how it feels to protected groups, rather than by its truth or falsehood, is exactly the standard the right spent a decade railing against.”
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“We took the freedom of speech away.”
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Opinion | Harvard’s New Campus Orthodoxy Is Even More Stifling Than the Old
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“We took the freedom of speech away.”
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This is not breaking news to most of us, but I appreciated this opinion piece from current Harvard undergrad @alexbronzini.bsky.social making concrete some of what the new regime of campus speech restriction looks like.
We need more of this, especially students describing their direct experience.
We need more of this, especially students describing their direct experience.
Opinion | Harvard’s New Campus Orthodoxy Is Even More Stifling Than the Old
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This is not breaking news to most of us, but I appreciated this opinion piece from current Harvard undergrad @alexbronzini.bsky.social making concrete some of what the new regime of campus speech restriction looks like.
We need more of this, especially students describing their direct experience.
We need more of this, especially students describing their direct experience.
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If universities require urgent reform to regain public trust, then so too do the medical system, organized religion, banks, and the Supreme Court—all of which fare worse than universities in Gallup polls measuring public confidence. @alexbronzini.bsky.social
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No, America Doesn’t Hate Harvard | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
It’s a neat narrative, though it doesn’t fit the facts. Yes, Americans are less confident in institutions like Harvard than they used to be. But the drop isn’t as steep as declinists say — and it’s no...
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December 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM
If universities require urgent reform to regain public trust, then so too do the medical system, organized religion, banks, and the Supreme Court—all of which fare worse than universities in Gallup polls measuring public confidence. @alexbronzini.bsky.social
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Affirmative action for milquetoast liberalism!
July 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Affirmative action for milquetoast liberalism!
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We sent @alexbronzini.bsky.social to WelcomeFest, where everyone from “abundance” advocates to David Shor to Senator Elissa Slotkin have fresh ideas about how to save the Democratic Party, like “appeal to the centrist soccer mom” and “take your base for granted.”
Come One, Come All!* | Alex Bronzini-Vender
All were welcome at WelcomeFest 2025—except for the “groups.”
thebaffler.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We sent @alexbronzini.bsky.social to WelcomeFest, where everyone from “abundance” advocates to David Shor to Senator Elissa Slotkin have fresh ideas about how to save the Democratic Party, like “appeal to the centrist soccer mom” and “take your base for granted.”
Earlier this month, @thebaffler.com sent me to WelcomeFest, America’s “largest gathering of centrist Democrats” thebaffler.com/latest/come-...
Come One, Come All!* | Alex Bronzini-Vender
All were welcome at WelcomeFest 2025—except for the “groups.”
thebaffler.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Earlier this month, @thebaffler.com sent me to WelcomeFest, America’s “largest gathering of centrist Democrats” thebaffler.com/latest/come-...
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Commencement speakers used to make audiences squirm in their seats. But if you make them squirm at NYU, warns Corey Robin, you might be punished. chroni.cl/3Swt2rX
A Graduation Speaker Gets Canceled
Commencement addresses used to make audiences squirm. Now you get in trouble for doing that.
chroni.cl
May 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Commencement speakers used to make audiences squirm in their seats. But if you make them squirm at NYU, warns Corey Robin, you might be punished. chroni.cl/3Swt2rX
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Good piece by @alexbronzini.bsky.social about the insufficiency of the “administrative bloat” critique of higher ed. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
Beyond the administrative bloat theory of everything
Many critics of higher education have long seen <a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/5108/chapter-abstract/147691963?redirectedFrom=fulltext#:~:text=Hyperventilated%20talk%20about,and%20amenity%20co...
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April 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Good piece by @alexbronzini.bsky.social about the insufficiency of the “administrative bloat” critique of higher ed. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
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good argument about why democrats seriously shouldn't embrace crypto from @alexbronzini.bsky.social
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April 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
good argument about why democrats seriously shouldn't embrace crypto from @alexbronzini.bsky.social
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Colorado governor Jared Polis could very well be the future of the Democratic Party. That is not a good thing. @alexbronzini.bsky.social describes his crypto-friendly, Koch-adjacent, deregulatory liberalism.
Abundance Mindset | Alex Bronzini-Vender
Jared Polis could define the future of the Democratic Party. That’s a bad thing.
thebaffler.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Colorado governor Jared Polis could very well be the future of the Democratic Party. That is not a good thing. @alexbronzini.bsky.social describes his crypto-friendly, Koch-adjacent, deregulatory liberalism.
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As the governor of Colorado, Jared Polis has declared over one thousand state holidays. He’s also resisted organized labor, cut regulations, and slashed taxes. @alexbronzini.bsky.social writes on the strangest Democrat in America.
Abundance Mindset | Alex Bronzini-Vender
Jared Polis could define the future of the Democratic Party. That’s a bad thing.
thebaffler.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
As the governor of Colorado, Jared Polis has declared over one thousand state holidays. He’s also resisted organized labor, cut regulations, and slashed taxes. @alexbronzini.bsky.social writes on the strangest Democrat in America.
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It’s remarkable how confident people are about the imminent arrival of the bond vigilantes, no matter how many times these predictions have been wrong in the past. on.ft.com/4fji5mn
December 16, 2024 at 12:58 PM
It’s remarkable how confident people are about the imminent arrival of the bond vigilantes, no matter how many times these predictions have been wrong in the past. on.ft.com/4fji5mn
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Via @rajakorman.bsky.social , here is Michael Pettis' critique of China's development strategy boiled down to a sentence. carnegieendowment.org/posts/2009/1...
December 14, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Via @rajakorman.bsky.social , here is Michael Pettis' critique of China's development strategy boiled down to a sentence. carnegieendowment.org/posts/2009/1...