Guerrilla Scholar
@guerrillascholar.bsky.social
Recovering academic, Ph.D. bible scholar, artist, intelligence pro, amateur scientist, university co-founder, and unrepentant generalist.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
When things no longer work, sometimes you just have to walk away. Sometimes it's a choice sometimes it isn't. But sometimes something remarkable emerges from the experience.
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In Praise of Dropout Culture
Why we need spaces where people can walk away and try something new.
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January 5, 2026 at 7:44 PM
When things no longer work, sometimes you just have to walk away. Sometimes it's a choice sometimes it isn't. But sometimes something remarkable emerges from the experience.
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It needs to be said: the billionaires who would run the country are idiots.
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On Idiot Billionaires
It needs to be said; the billionaires who want to run the world are profoundly stupid men.
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December 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
It needs to be said: the billionaires who would run the country are idiots.
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We can learn a lot from the elders among us.
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When an Old One Dies...
Uncovering the stories hidden within our families.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We can learn a lot from the elders among us.
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How is knowledge, expertise lost? The attacks on education and truth itself are just one phase of a very old game.
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How Knowledge is Lost
Not suppressed, but supplanted...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
How is knowledge, expertise lost? The attacks on education and truth itself are just one phase of a very old game.
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One of the duties of the independent intellectual is to push back against those who would deny the public their right to know about issues that impact their lives. Like climate change.
Here is a classic example (one among many of late):
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Here is a classic example (one among many of late):
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'Attack on Independent Science': Trump EPA Removes All Mention of Human-Caused Climate Crisis From Public Webpages | Common Dreams
In what the Union of Concerned Scientists called "an attack on independent science," the Trump administration has purged all information about human causes of climate change from EPA websites.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
One of the duties of the independent intellectual is to push back against those who would deny the public their right to know about issues that impact their lives. Like climate change.
Here is a classic example (one among many of late):
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Here is a classic example (one among many of late):
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Watch my recent interview with Sara Troy on the Self-Discovery Wisdom podcast where we discuss learning, academia, and of course, my book, The Guerrilla Scholar's Handbook.
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AK25-48. Dr. Sheldon Greaves, The Guerrilla Scholar's Handbook - Self Discovery Wisdom Podcasts
Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Dr. Sheldon Greaves, on air from December 2nd The Guerrilla Scholar’s Handbook: A guide to the pursuit of learning for pleasure, empowerment, and changing the...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Watch my recent interview with Sara Troy on the Self-Discovery Wisdom podcast where we discuss learning, academia, and of course, my book, The Guerrilla Scholar's Handbook.
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A meditation on a kindred soul in Gaza, whom I've never met, but has great taste in music.
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Rhapsody, by Request
A story of Gaza and Gershwin
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November 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
A meditation on a kindred soul in Gaza, whom I've never met, but has great taste in music.
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#Poverty is already a serious problem in the United States, and it's about to get worse. A lot worse.
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An Epidemic of Poverty?
Hard times are coming. Be ready.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#Poverty is already a serious problem in the United States, and it's about to get worse. A lot worse.
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I have to admire how Chicagoans are stepping up to support their immigrant street vendors. This is excellent on several levels.
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Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown
Across Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods, fear of a federal immigration crackdown has emptied the streets.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I have to admire how Chicagoans are stepping up to support their immigrant street vendors. This is excellent on several levels.
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Navigating the present moment demands that we record and curate the history around us, before others degrade, censor, distort, or dismiss the events of our times. The good news is, anyone can do it.
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We Must Preserve this History
We need to remember how we got here, and how we got through it.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Navigating the present moment demands that we record and curate the history around us, before others degrade, censor, distort, or dismiss the events of our times. The good news is, anyone can do it.
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As I watch how compassionate, civic-minded Americans are finding ways to help their fellow citizens cope with the loss of vital nutritional aid, I am starting to believe that our response to Trump's wanton cruelty will, one day, be remembered as our finest hour.
October 29, 2025 at 4:42 AM
As I watch how compassionate, civic-minded Americans are finding ways to help their fellow citizens cope with the loss of vital nutritional aid, I am starting to believe that our response to Trump's wanton cruelty will, one day, be remembered as our finest hour.
Watch my interview on the LifeVision Lab podcast, in which I talk about an independent intellectual life, and my new book, The Guerrilla Scholar's Handbook.
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Episode 5: Beyond Academia: Uncover the World of Guerrilla Scholarship (Video)
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October 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Watch my interview on the LifeVision Lab podcast, in which I talk about an independent intellectual life, and my new book, The Guerrilla Scholar's Handbook.
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My wife and I attended the No Kings protest in our town. What I saw there gives me a lot to think about, and most of all, hope.
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Reflections on Our Local No Kings Protest
It wasn't the same event that it was in June.
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October 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
My wife and I attended the No Kings protest in our town. What I saw there gives me a lot to think about, and most of all, hope.
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With American universities facing open hostility from the Trump regime, maybe it's time to rethink what a university really is.
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What is a University?
A think piece: If the great learning institutions are compromised, what might replace them?
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October 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
With American universities facing open hostility from the Trump regime, maybe it's time to rethink what a university really is.
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AI is eroding our individuality. It is making us boring.
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AI and the Decline of the Individual
Artificial Intelligence is making us boring.
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October 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
AI is eroding our individuality. It is making us boring.
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The idea that universities should be run as though they were businesses is the single greatest threat to American higher education.
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Higher Education is Not a Business
Why universities should not be run like for-profit corporations.
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September 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The idea that universities should be run as though they were businesses is the single greatest threat to American higher education.
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I am increasingly skeptical that AI will ever truly surpass human intelligence.
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Why Artificial General Intelligence is A Pipe Dream
AI technology cannot replicate the human ability of intuition.
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September 22, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I am increasingly skeptical that AI will ever truly surpass human intelligence.
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The Epstein Sex Slavery business - let call it what it is - proves that too much wealth and too much power in too few hands is a moral corruption of society. Until we’re ready to end wealth hoarding, this will continue to happen. It’s what the very wealthy always do: they get away with atrocities.
September 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The Epstein Sex Slavery business - let call it what it is - proves that too much wealth and too much power in too few hands is a moral corruption of society. Until we’re ready to end wealth hoarding, this will continue to happen. It’s what the very wealthy always do: they get away with atrocities.
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How to Research Your Way to a Better World | Common Dreams
In the midst of the torrent of lies and repressive practices emanating from Washington, the use of research to guide strategy and support organizing is more important than ever.
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September 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Our shared history as Americans is under attack. Why is this happening and what can we do about it?
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Saving Our Common History
Putting a lid over the Memory Hole
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September 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Our shared history as Americans is under attack. Why is this happening and what can we do about it?
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Some unsettling developments at the University of Chicago.
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The Passing of Excellence
The University of Chicago's recent decision on admissions to certain doctoral programs is a very bad sign.
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August 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Some unsettling developments at the University of Chicago.
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Thousands of people have showed up in Washington D.C. to protest against Trump and the presence of National Guards!!
They are marching towards the White House in a peaceful and safe manner but they are LOUD!! 🥳
They are marching towards the White House in a peaceful and safe manner but they are LOUD!! 🥳
August 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Thousands of people have showed up in Washington D.C. to protest against Trump and the presence of National Guards!!
They are marching towards the White House in a peaceful and safe manner but they are LOUD!! 🥳
They are marching towards the White House in a peaceful and safe manner but they are LOUD!! 🥳
How recent moves by the Trump regime could supercharge climate denialism. open.substack.com/pub/guerrill...
An Overlooked Point on Climate Change
The Administration's move to repeal a 2009 endangerment finding and the changing nature of climate denialism.
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August 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
How recent moves by the Trump regime could supercharge climate denialism. open.substack.com/pub/guerrill...