The Golden Idol Machine
We can remind ourselves, and them: we already belong. Not to the algorithm, not to the audience, not to the machine—but to ourselves, to each other, to the earth, to whatever rhythm once made being human feel like enough.
The Land of the Free…Until You Express an Opinion
My book is your guide to living freely in a world gone mad. It’s about laughing in the face of censorship, ignoring the establishment’s nonsensical rules, and embracing the global fight for free speech with true grit and resilience.
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Why Are Taxpayers Still Funding These Injection Mandates?
In sum, we have a number of institutions that have yet to be defunded as promised by President Trump, and we have students at those institutions who are subject to unjustifiable disparate treatment. So, what gives?
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Ideological Firewalls Work Quite Well…Until They Don’t
Our prime task is the unglamorous—and for many in this culture that worships action for action’s sake—unsatisfying task of circling back to things like love, compassion, friendship, touch, and sincere dialogue that lie at the core of being human.
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The Kids Are Not Alright
I want to address a new strain of an existing challenge – emotional regulation. Imagine a 15-year-old boy and the challenges he has with impulse control. Now imagine a 13-year-old brain in that body. What would be the expected result?
Why Have Any Covid-19 Vaccines, 2025?
In February 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order prohibiting federal funding for educational institutions that mandate Covid-19 vaccines for in-person attendance. Medical schools reliant on federal funds may reconsider these pointless mandates, paeans to outdated orthodoxy.
Teachers Must Avert an AI-Facilitated Intellectual Dark Age
We should not forget that one of the greatest risks of AI technology may be a degradation of the learning process itself, and thus a new intellectual dark age. It is up to teachers to avert such a catastrophic outcome.
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David Zweig’s New Covid Book Is a Must-Read
In a just society, all of them would be put on trial. If that ever happens, Zweig’s devastating, meticulously researched account would be all the prosecution would need to obtain a conviction. That’s the strongest endorsement I could possibly give.
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Why I Came around to Online Learning
If you’re an early- or mid-career faculty member and you’ve never tried teaching online—except perhaps for an unpleasant Zoom experience in 2020-21—I would encourage you to give real online teaching a try.
The Mom Executive Order
Your mom was right. The government should not have closed schools; you should have been able to breathe and play freely with your friends; the Covid period fear and hysteria devastated and harmed and never should have happened.
Were School Windows Really Sealed Shut?
So much we’ve already forgotten, which is one reason to be grateful for David Zweig’s Abundance of Caution. It chronicles the excuses for not opening schools from the beginning, almost day by day, and explodes every myth along the way.
What Must Modern Top-Flight Education Look Like?
To realign tertiary education with its classic mission, we advocate a return to small campus colleges and the creation of environments in those colleges that are socially open, technologically experimental, and radically honest about humans and our society.
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