Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
@llassabe
historian, author, speaker, podcaster Resistance from the Right (UNC Press, 2023), Degrees of Liberation (SUNY Press), Inventing the Liberal University (UChicago Press) 🎧 American Campus Podcast
Psst those intellectual diversity centers are just one more rightwing grift TIL Rufo’s speaking fee is $50k
You know how people fall in love with chatbots? I am romantically involved with a mini split at a motel in cochecton, New York
The show hit 50k downloads last night (🥹) dropping an episode on the Closing of the American Mind today feels like a fitting way to celebrate
Handwriting sleuths, what say you? “Your [????] is a masterpiece. The parents of every student should get it [????]”
First international recording of American Campus Pidcast in Toulouse! Extremely excited to share this one soon
Next on the chopping block: the Big Science Cartel (NSF and the rest of the ahem, scientific deep state of child mutilators)
My paralyzed baby absolutely crushing it on the treadmill (this is my personal Olympics)
Imagine if the US and Britain had real opposition parties. Imagine being as clear eyed as @judeinlondon.com
You may have noticed there was no Sunday episode on the main feed over the weekend (Patreon subscribers got a bonus ep!!) I promise to make it up to yall tomorrow
Every time I read the chronicle of higher Ed’s daily briefing newsletter I ask myself why I didn’t just hit delete first
Heads up we’re doing CK quote memes styled as founding fathers portraiture now