Jack Delehanty
@jackdelehanty.bsky.social
Sociology professor, runner, husband to Tania, dad to Sylvie & Louis. Making Moral Citizens, my book on faith-based community organizing, now available from UNC Press.
Convincing my students that we should be paying politicians more rather than less, drawing on Weber's Politics as a Vocation, is one of my favorite parts of every theory course I teach.
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Convincing my students that we should be paying politicians more rather than less, drawing on Weber's Politics as a Vocation, is one of my favorite parts of every theory course I teach.
It was an honor to be part of a conversation on Shifting Terrain covering how capitalism and Christianity are linked, resistance to Christian Nationalism, and more. Also ft. @profsamperry.bsky.social & @msjeannelewis.bsky.social. Listen below!
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November 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It was an honor to be part of a conversation on Shifting Terrain covering how capitalism and Christianity are linked, resistance to Christian Nationalism, and more. Also ft. @profsamperry.bsky.social & @msjeannelewis.bsky.social. Listen below!
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Many social movements in American history have emerged from religious groups and religious ideals. "Social Movements and Religion in American History," an ARDA college-level learning module, examines the history of movements in the United States by using religion as a lens.
Social Movements and Religion in American History
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October 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Many social movements in American history have emerged from religious groups and religious ideals. "Social Movements and Religion in American History," an ARDA college-level learning module, examines the history of movements in the United States by using religion as a lens.
Facts and empirics cannot pierce today's conservative information world.
As I explain here, it's part of a broader division between fundamentally secular-modernist thinking on the left and mythic-religious thinking on the right.
DM for a copy if you need.
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As I explain here, it's part of a broader division between fundamentally secular-modernist thinking on the left and mythic-religious thinking on the right.
DM for a copy if you need.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Facts and empirics cannot pierce today's conservative information world.
As I explain here, it's part of a broader division between fundamentally secular-modernist thinking on the left and mythic-religious thinking on the right.
DM for a copy if you need.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
As I explain here, it's part of a broader division between fundamentally secular-modernist thinking on the left and mythic-religious thinking on the right.
DM for a copy if you need.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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It’s miller park like its staples center. I don’t acknowledge the name change and neither should u
dodgers not gonna go into miller park over confident. The brewers whipped their asses all season.
Yes, the dodgers are better now that their six month spring training of a regular season is mercifully over and they’re actually fielding their best players, but still.
Yes, the dodgers are better now that their six month spring training of a regular season is mercifully over and they’re actually fielding their best players, but still.
October 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
It’s miller park like its staples center. I don’t acknowledge the name change and neither should u
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This NYT podcast on the cratering of coding jobs is an advertisement for a liberal arts education. Don't train for today's jobs b/c they might not be there tomorrow. Develop enduring critical thinking skills that allow you to adapt to an evolving world www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/p...
Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow.
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September 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This NYT podcast on the cratering of coding jobs is an advertisement for a liberal arts education. Don't train for today's jobs b/c they might not be there tomorrow. Develop enduring critical thinking skills that allow you to adapt to an evolving world www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/p...
Happy to share this little piece I wrote for Contemporary Sociology on religion and secularism in Trump's re-election:
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September 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Happy to share this little piece I wrote for Contemporary Sociology on religion and secularism in Trump's re-election:
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Great thread on writing as thinking. Your LLM can't do this for you.
And verb your nouns, folks! Put the action of your arguments into verbs, not nominalizations!
And verb your nouns, folks! Put the action of your arguments into verbs, not nominalizations!
This is not a dunk on anyone in particular, but allow me to illustrate with an example from my own writing:
"The natural and sharp signs rarely appear in Agricola's examples, but their occurrences are revealing of Agricola's thinking." 🧵
"The natural and sharp signs rarely appear in Agricola's examples, but their occurrences are revealing of Agricola's thinking." 🧵
I'm just an editor standing in front of a line of academic authors asking them to use fewer gerunds.
September 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Great thread on writing as thinking. Your LLM can't do this for you.
And verb your nouns, folks! Put the action of your arguments into verbs, not nominalizations!
And verb your nouns, folks! Put the action of your arguments into verbs, not nominalizations!
This summer, I developed an AI Policy and Contract for my courses. After incorporating feedback from lots of students, here's the final version.
I'm sharing it here in case others would like to adapt it for their own use. Please feel free to adapt and use it.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
I'm sharing it here in case others would like to adapt it for their own use. Please feel free to adapt and use it.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
AI Policy and Contract.docx
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August 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This summer, I developed an AI Policy and Contract for my courses. After incorporating feedback from lots of students, here's the final version.
I'm sharing it here in case others would like to adapt it for their own use. Please feel free to adapt and use it.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
I'm sharing it here in case others would like to adapt it for their own use. Please feel free to adapt and use it.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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The University of Minnesota, Morris provides an amazing liberal arts experience and learning environment that equals or exceeds MN's private liberal arts colleges at a 1/3 or 1/4 of the price.
Stop prioritizing 70k/yr institutions. Check out places like Morris! www.startribune.com/university-o...
Stop prioritizing 70k/yr institutions. Check out places like Morris! www.startribune.com/university-o...
U of M Morris grapples with lowest enrollment in years, raising worries for its future
The campus in west-central Minnesota has faced declining enrollment for years. Now Morris faces a critical point.
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August 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The University of Minnesota, Morris provides an amazing liberal arts experience and learning environment that equals or exceeds MN's private liberal arts colleges at a 1/3 or 1/4 of the price.
Stop prioritizing 70k/yr institutions. Check out places like Morris! www.startribune.com/university-o...
Stop prioritizing 70k/yr institutions. Check out places like Morris! www.startribune.com/university-o...
all the way off
Seriously, fuck off.
I say that with all due gravity.
I say that with all due gravity.
August 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
all the way off
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WaPo: We've killed our independence and objectivity, please like our owner
NYT: Trump Making Amazing Deals, White House Says; Mamdani Late 4 Times in 6th Grade
CBS: We'll censor things you dislike, here's millions of dollars, please let our parent do a merger
WSJ: BREAKING: TRUMP-EPSTEIN LETTER!
NYT: Trump Making Amazing Deals, White House Says; Mamdani Late 4 Times in 6th Grade
CBS: We'll censor things you dislike, here's millions of dollars, please let our parent do a merger
WSJ: BREAKING: TRUMP-EPSTEIN LETTER!
July 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
WaPo: We've killed our independence and objectivity, please like our owner
NYT: Trump Making Amazing Deals, White House Says; Mamdani Late 4 Times in 6th Grade
CBS: We'll censor things you dislike, here's millions of dollars, please let our parent do a merger
WSJ: BREAKING: TRUMP-EPSTEIN LETTER!
NYT: Trump Making Amazing Deals, White House Says; Mamdani Late 4 Times in 6th Grade
CBS: We'll censor things you dislike, here's millions of dollars, please let our parent do a merger
WSJ: BREAKING: TRUMP-EPSTEIN LETTER!
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Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me.
His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard.
This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.
His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard.
This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.
June 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me.
His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard.
This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.
His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard.
This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.
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At this point, I would suggest as a general rule that the greater the embrace of this kind of approach to generative AI, the less invested the institution is in students actually learning something or having genuinely meaningful experiences. Students beware. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
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June 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
At this point, I would suggest as a general rule that the greater the embrace of this kind of approach to generative AI, the less invested the institution is in students actually learning something or having genuinely meaningful experiences. Students beware. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Co-sign every word of this.
I will not use AI in any aspect of my work: teaching, research, or service. Not to write emails or build schedules, not to transcribe interviews or code field notes, not to review manuscripts, and certainly never to assess student work.
I will not use AI in any aspect of my work: teaching, research, or service. Not to write emails or build schedules, not to transcribe interviews or code field notes, not to review manuscripts, and certainly never to assess student work.
I've started explicitly addressing some of what's described in this article as I go on my merry way, institution to institution insisting that we can and must continue to teach writing. There's two main risks. Both are real. 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
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The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It
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May 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Co-sign every word of this.
I will not use AI in any aspect of my work: teaching, research, or service. Not to write emails or build schedules, not to transcribe interviews or code field notes, not to review manuscripts, and certainly never to assess student work.
I will not use AI in any aspect of my work: teaching, research, or service. Not to write emails or build schedules, not to transcribe interviews or code field notes, not to review manuscripts, and certainly never to assess student work.
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New research from me and @profsamperry.bsky.social in @sfjournal.bsky.social finds the more Americans affirm Christian nationalist views the more likely they are to oppose taxation across a range of measures, with findings consistent across multiple datasets. Why might this be?
April 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
New research from me and @profsamperry.bsky.social in @sfjournal.bsky.social finds the more Americans affirm Christian nationalist views the more likely they are to oppose taxation across a range of measures, with findings consistent across multiple datasets. Why might this be?
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I told ChatGPT that I wanted to be a philosopher as a kid.
And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!??
God, we are fucked.
And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!??
God, we are fucked.
April 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I told ChatGPT that I wanted to be a philosopher as a kid.
And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!??
God, we are fucked.
And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!??
God, we are fucked.
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A completely serious question.
When people, and businesses, and institutions with the resources and reputation to stand firm…don’t, where does that leave this country.
cc Paul, Weiss. And Columbia. And so many others
When people, and businesses, and institutions with the resources and reputation to stand firm…don’t, where does that leave this country.
cc Paul, Weiss. And Columbia. And so many others
March 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
A completely serious question.
When people, and businesses, and institutions with the resources and reputation to stand firm…don’t, where does that leave this country.
cc Paul, Weiss. And Columbia. And so many others
When people, and businesses, and institutions with the resources and reputation to stand firm…don’t, where does that leave this country.
cc Paul, Weiss. And Columbia. And so many others
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these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard
Schumer tells me Republicans might try to jam Democrats again in September, but thinks Trump will be less popular then and Republican appropriators might be more willing to stand up to him. He said they refused to do so now.
March 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard
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how do we start a rumor that AI is DEI so they ban it
March 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
how do we start a rumor that AI is DEI so they ban it
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With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter: