Asheesh Kapur Siddique

asheeshks.org

05 October 2026 13:21

Again, the US isn't structurally racist because people *feel* it is. The US is structurally racist because empirical research across a wide range of fields, from history to sociology to economics, has *shown* it to be. This is the right way to think about US history, and people should be taught it.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique

asheeshks.org

05 October 2026 13:21

I find this claim, which is now common in right-wing ed discourse, really astonishing. It rests at the core of the post-truth vision of "viewpoint diversity": we should not teach the conclusions that research shows to be correct; rather, we should validate empirically discredited ideas just because.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique

asheeshks.org

05 October 2026 13:20

The Cornell report on the Future of the American University is a disaster, mainstreaming and endorsing profoundly reactionary right-wing diagnoses of higher education that have no business in a serious report on what higher ed is or should become.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique

asheeshks.org

05 October 2026 13:20

Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities

Caleb Ward

calebw.bsky.social

15 September 2026 20:42

Just put pen to paper on a contract to work at Free University Berlin for the next 2 years. huzzah! The whole social philosophy scene there is so fertile for both my teaching & my research. Can't wait. Obligatory website screenshot👇