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Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning

Trump, Zelensky, and Thucydides

May 19, 2026

Colin Murphy

Trump, Zelensky, and Thucydides

Colin Murphy applies James Chandler's analysis of kayfabe in the Trump administration to the theatricality of modern geopolitics.

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What is higher learning?

May 19, 2026

Jerome McGann

What is higher learning?

Jerome McGann reconsiders the point of higher education in light of James Chandler's new pamphlet.

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Should we excuse the practices of universities?

May 19, 2026

Richard Bourke

Should we excuse the practices of universities?

Richard Bourke comments on The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning

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Christopher Rufo and the right’s hypocritical war on CRT

May 19, 2026

Nicholas Dirks

Christopher Rufo and the right’s hypocritical war on CRT

Nicholas Dirks responds to James Chandler’s new book, The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning.

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Kayfabe, Trolling, Satire, and Cynicism

May 19, 2026

Jennifer Pitts

Kayfabe, Trolling, Satire, and Cynicism

Jennifer Pitts analyzes the use of irony in The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning

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Trump and Anti-Catholicism in America

Apr 26, 2026

Jim Chandler

Trump and Anti-Catholicism in America

Vincent Norman Peale, the author of The Power of Positive Thinking who officiated Trump's first wedding, is a link in a long chain of American prejudice against Catholics.

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Is Trump Losing His Touch?

Apr 24, 2026

Jim Chandler

Is Trump Losing His Touch?

Epstein, Iran, and Trump's losing war against satire

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Selective Memory and the Trump Administration

Apr 13, 2026

Jim Chandler

Selective Memory and the Trump Administration

The author of The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning on new lawsuits against Harvard

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The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning

Mar 24, 2026

The Editors

The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning

Dive deeper into James Chandler's new pamphlet from Prickly Paradigm Press

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Trump's "Antisemitism"

Mar 23, 2026

The Editors

Trump's "Antisemitism"

Jim Chandler's new Prickly Paradigm Press pamphlet looks at the deep ironies of Trump's political agenda.

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