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2016 All Over Again?
Louis Napoleon’s coup in 1851 For my mental health and intellectual sharpness, I have pledged not to read any polling or “horserace” news articles…
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Jason Tebbe
We Never Reckoned With 9/11
It’s been twenty-two years now since September 11, 2001. Enough has happened since then for America, including two wars, Hurricane Katrina, the worst…
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How Bruce Springsteen Got Me Ready For the School Year
I have been back at school for two weeks now, but doing meetings and conferences instead of teaching. Tomorrow the students arrive. Even after over…
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Jason Tebbe
August 2023
July 2023
We Need to End Our Obsession With Elite Private Universities
The Supreme Court’s recent ban on considering a student’s race in college admissions has rightly prompted a great deal of criticism. The notion that you…
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Jason Tebbe
Forget Threads, Bring Back the Blogosphere
The blogosphere is Beer Lane to social media’s Gin Alley This week it looked like Elon Musk was finally paying the piper for his terrible management of…
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Contemplating American History's Dysfunctional Continuities on Independence Day
“Change over time” is the simplest way to define history. As a young historian, I was very much attuned to the moments of break and rupture in history…
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Jason Tebbe
June 2023
Streaming, Physical Media, and the Failure of Techno-optimism
Feel free to judge my home’s movie collection This week brought more bad news for the streaming model of entertainment. Paramount+ has canceled multiple…
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That Last Day of School Feeling
Teaching is a hard job, but it also comes with perks others don’t get. One of the biggest is the last day of school. It is a cathartic moment, one of…
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The Age of Trump Continues
I tend to avoid cable news these days, but when I got the word on Friday that Donald Trump had been indicted a second time, I fired up MSNBC like it was…
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David Brooks and Values Conversations From The Left
I wrote here awhile back about how political conservatives have cornered the market on “values” conversations and that it was high time for people on…
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