Brian Kisida

Truman School of Govt & Public Affairs
Arts, Humanities, & Civic Engagement Lab
Open Minds Initiative
Univ. of Missouri ⭕

[Gary Frankel @FrankelGarion]

"Night" belongs in schools. 8th Graders are old enough. I know it's violent. I know it's graphic. But teenagers can handle knowing the truth. And, in an era of rising antisemitism, particularly on social media, it is imperative that they do.

https://t.co/CKilsILb2z

[Brian Kisida @BrianKisida]

@vkoganpolisci https://t.co/2vjefgXnUo

[Brian Kisida @BrianKisida]

An Ohio principal lost his job for letting a homeless student live at his house & attend his school. Another reminder that "public schools" is an oxymoron. @vkoganpolisci

[Brian Kisida @BrianKisida]

https://t.co/d6tVFzYNt3

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Hasan Piker Says Anyone Trying To Twist His Words As Antisemitic Is A Dirty Lying Jew https://t.co/w7gGHdDljK

[Carole Hooven @hoovlet]

"U.S. universities urgently need to reconcile themselves with the public they serve. Again, we hope they will do this by taking up the hard work of reforming their practices to better align with the ideal of nonpartisan truth-seeking." https://t.co/rNbkrKxMeW

[James V. Shuls @shulsie]

If you know an experimental psych or econ person who would love to run their own research lab focused on issues related liberty and civic society, let them know we are hiring!

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Partisans are highly segregated by workplace--the effect is similar in size to gender segregation at work.

Museums and environmental organizations have the fewest Republicans, gas pipelines and mines have the most Republicans.

Historians are most likely to be Democrats, drill operators are the most likely to be Republicans.

Political Segregation is largest among the politically active and those with more market power (senior executives).

Republicans experience higher exposure to Democrats at work: the average Republican’s coworkers are 50% Democratic versus 32% Republican for the average Democrat.
https://t.co/cGF77W4NQX

[John Sailer @JohnDSailer]

Remember how the AAUP’s Issac Kamola said he wanted to create a project to “map out” the new civics and civil discourse initiatives and “knock them out.”

“Uncivil,” a new faculty group, is trying to do just that. Kamola sits on its executive committee.

Here are the details🧵

[Brian Kisida @BrianKisida]

@shulsie I wonder what this would have looked like 20-30 years ago. This has probably been true for a long time, but I expect it was less stark.

[Brian Kisida @BrianKisida]

@vkoganpolisci If you're recommending The Price is Right, I'd start here:
https://t.co/63Q81oW105

[Brian Kisida @BrianKisida]

@Tyler_A_Harper @McCormickProf We're booking speakers here now? If so, I'd like that email DM'd too. Missouri is a little further away though..

[Brian Kisida @BrianKisida]

@McCormickProf Interesting, I have several of the same phrases on my syllabi, borrowed from John Rose. Now I'm curious about the origin!

[Brian Kisida @BrianKisida]

This piece by @Tyler_A_Harper is essential reading.

(& beautifully written, with literary gems like "anti-racist truffle pigs")

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Much of @Tyler_A_Harper’s academic career had felt like a fairy tale. When he landed a tenure-track job, one adviser said that it was like “watching the last dinosaur being born.” But after few years at Bates College, his faith in academia had shattered: https://t.co/8ZnqxJfYcJ

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

The AAUP made its first-ever national political endorsement, backing Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary.
When critics objected, its president reportedly called them “clowns” in a now-deleted post. That says it all.

[Brian Kisida @BrianKisida]

@vkoganpolisci Until I clicked on the article I thought you were talking about Michigan

[The Martin Center @AcademicRenewal]

Martin Center editor @FrankelGarion argues in @RealClearEd that the NEA has become more focused on political activism than representing the teachers it was created to serve.

https://t.co/QCqVS4neb7

[Brian Kisida @BrianKisida]

@robkhenderson Same!

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

Evidently, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) thinks it can help people it would like to see in elective office by marking them as "the candidate of the American professoriate." Good luck with that, guys. Why not just brand them with a scarlet "A"?
Look, the AAUP should be politically and ideologically non-partisan. But it hasn't been that for a long time. It claimed to be, but it wasn't. So, I'm glad that the venerable organization is finally providing a little truth in advertising. It's making official the partisanship it has long practiced. It has gone the way of the ACLU, Amnesty International, and so many other once non-partisan organizations.
AAUP members who want a non-partisan academic association should quit. They should join the genuinely non-partisan Academic Freedom Alliance (https://t.co/skCIX7i19t).

https://t.co/xGGTlNNcPo