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January 2, 2026 Greetings from the Swamp.   As the new year takes hold, the attacks against public higher education continue. Those with their student loans in default could face having their wages garnished (though, The Debt Collective offers some helpful advice to avoid doing so).  Harvard continues trying to negotiate a settlement with the Department of Education but keeps running up against an administration that seems more intent in holding the university in its crossh

October 19, 2025 Greetings from the Swamp.   I bike to the beach in a weekly attempt to temporarily clear my mind of the increasing political tumult that has swept over our swamp and increasingly engulfs the nation. Sitting on the sand, book in hand, listening to the waves lapping upon the shore grounds one. The sun’s heat kneads into one’s skin where humidity, flesh, brine filled breeze, and sand enfold into one another. But as the suns’ weight builds, one has the ocean clos

September 22, 2025 Greetings from the Swamp! This past week finds us confronting two related onslaughts against public education. UC Berkeley, home of the free speech movement in the 1960s, recently shared the names of 160 faculty and students involved in alleged past antisemitic incidents with the Department of Education. None of the accused have been told the charges against them. Prominent gender studies theorist Judith Butler , whose name was one of the 160, noted: “We ha

August 19, 2025 Greetings from the Swamp. As our semester begins at Swamp University, we learn our campus police have formally signed the...

July 31, 2025 Greetings from the swamp. I had to take brief respite from my blog duties to escape the tropical heat, which can melt your...

June 16, 2025 Greetings from the Swamp. It was a little after 7 pm, and we had to start directing attendees to an overflow movie theater...

June 2, 2025 Greetings from the Swamp. We face unprecedented attacks against workers at all levels as waves of reactionary populist...

May 17, 2025 Greetings from the Swamp. Recently, The New York Times   released a short documentary  about three Yale professors, who are...

May 6, 2025 Greetings from the swamp. Being a film scholar and horror aficionado, I couldn’t help but associate images of Elon Musk...

28 April 2025 Greetings from Swamp U. On 7 March 2025, Christopher Rufo, one of the central polemicists against critical race theory had...

22 April 2025 Greetings from the land of broken conquistador dreams, which litter our landscape like the over-priced, unsold houses that...