Shane Ralston, Ph.D.

Public philosopher and HR professional (Dean of Wright College, Woolf University)

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

We find that teaching or research experience is less helpful in administration than experience working in senior care or child care, preferably both.

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

@SwipeWright This happened to me when I wrote a piece challenging Lynne Tirrell’s article on Toxic Speech, journal Philosophical Topics wouldn’t give me the time of day, so I went to the Journal of Controversial Ideas, same response, some scholars are protected and their positions Sacred Cows

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

“Canvas is down. You’ll have to finish the semester without it.”

The faculty:

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

@BrandonWarmke @CrispinSartwell They’re winning. Moorpark CC instructor gets probation only after killing a Jewish man at a pro-Palestinian protest in 2023, and Cal State University Philosophy instructor exonerated by a Federal court after attacking ICE agents at an anti-ICE protest w a smoke canister in 2025

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

@BrandonWarmke I taught in Penn St Phil Dept for 13 years, we had one of the foremost “experts” on anti racism studies (Sullivan), after the Sandusky scandal, I put a section in my ethics courses devoted to pedophilia, child sex assault and institutional corruption, admin pushed back hard

[FacultyLeaks.com @FacultyLeaks]

Launching today: Faculty Leaks Animated.

Episode 1 — "The Faculty." A new professor's surreal first day on the tenure track.

Inspired by our recent essay of the same name. The essay was reporting. This one's satire.

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

@BrandonWarmke Here’s one: @BrianLeiter

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

Politicos in Higher Ed are Killing Us Softly https://t.co/sugJr6uJG3

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

@podsekalnikov No faculty where I work. My advice: Learn a trade.

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

@podsekalnikov That’s capitalism for you, Jake. Hate the game, not the players!

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

@PalmyrPar Nothing to see here, folks. No sexual objectification of the male form. Just look away.

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

Emilio Ulluo's Call for Academics to Migrate https://t.co/ynfjsaZ0sf

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

Emilio Ulluo's Call for Academics to Migrate https://t.co/ynfjsaZ0sf

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

@matthenryyoung @ACTC5 Blame it on the Straussians

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

@NTampio @hartfordcourant Wow 🤩 terrific piece, Nick! I’d speculate that John Dewey would approve

https://t.co/dgp3YIdWvw

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

@BrandonWarmke How did Jason Stanley get a pass from the UT DEI regime? Maybe 🤔 it was the TDS diagnosis, treated as a disability

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

@Jairo_I_Funez Welcome to the brotherhood of the dispossessed. My advice: Double down on the activism!

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

@Tyler_A_Harper @RutgersU https://t.co/9CJiYnZZhq

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

MSM defers to so-called ‘Antifa experts’ who are activist-professors funding Antifa, they deny the existence of an organization that they themselves support, fearing arrest for supporting domestic terrorism #antifa @substack : https://t.co/sDDj06IivE

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

@Tyler_A_Harper Dist bet doing & studying activism is often lost. Mellon wants scholars to engage in activism thru scholarship. Media consults Antifa “expert” @RutgersU re: orgs goals and methods, & he responds strategically, it’s a non-entity. Politics obscure truth. Activist’s goal is to win.

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

For background on Tirrell’s toxic speech metaphor: https://t.co/PAs0MRlwQq

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

Lynne Tirrell articulated the idea that certain kinds of speech—particularly hate speech directed at marginalized groups—is toxic or harmful: https://t.co/4Az7DSG7QN

[Shane Ralston, Ph.D. @philsphizer]

First Charlie Kirk. Then a professor assaults a journalist on a university campus. Inspired by Lynne Tirrell’s thesis that words are weapons (toxic speech metaphor). Political violence and incivility are now perfectly acceptable among the professoriate.