The Alliance for Civics and aligned groups are dominating academic hiring in history and the humanities this cycle and probably will for the foreseeable future bc nobody is investing in peer-reviewed historical scholarship and teaching: asheeshksi.substack.com/p/tracking-c...

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Bc of how powerful the Alliance for Civics is, academic hiring in the humanities is moving toward requiring a new loyalty oath: you must "oppose indoctrination" and "engage with historically significant competing arguments on contested questions of civic life" (meaning ignore peer-reviewed knowledge

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Stanford is hiring 3 or 4 tenure line people this year across History, Political Science, and Classics to staff their right-wing civics initiative. No normal history or classics program is being given the money to hire 3 or 4 tenure line people to do peer-reviewed scholarship and teaching.

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These are the people - folks like the Alliance for Civics in the Academy - that are spending all of the money on hiring in the humanities right now. Not the Left. It's a disaster for humanistic knowledge, aimed to set us back from the massive insights produced by humanists over the last 50 years.

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In other words, we should ignore peer-reviewed scholarship in the humanities and social sciences in favor of the bs concept of viewpoint diversity, treating humanistic knowledge as relativistic in order to include conservative viewpoints for the sake of doing so

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