Michael J Drexler
@mjdrexler.bsky.social
English Professor at Bucknell University. Author of The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr.
At No Kings in Raleigh, NC!
October 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
At No Kings in Raleigh, NC!
Bucknell University is shutting down our university press. Huge disappointment and big blow to 18th century studies and Latin American studies, two signature strengths of BU Press.
August 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Bucknell University is shutting down our university press. Huge disappointment and big blow to 18th century studies and Latin American studies, two signature strengths of BU Press.
I'm genuinely curious how my academic friends are responding to the absence of men from literature courses. I have a theory seminar this fall: 12 women. I read D. French's piece that concedes that conservative, religious, and rural culture is not solving the fatalism reigning among young men today.
July 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I'm genuinely curious how my academic friends are responding to the absence of men from literature courses. I have a theory seminar this fall: 12 women. I read D. French's piece that concedes that conservative, religious, and rural culture is not solving the fatalism reigning among young men today.
Check it out: keywords.nyupress.org/keywords-con...
Antisemitic (June 2025)
The terms anti-Semite, antisemitic and antisemitism are tied up with relatively modern ideas of the racial and national identity of Jews as well as the fight for their acceptance in European and North...
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June 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Check it out: keywords.nyupress.org/keywords-con...
Even Ahab had his humanities...
"The President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Budget proposes to terminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." bit.ly/4kEnEPo
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June 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Even Ahab had his humanities...
Fwiw, the Bucknell English Department was just denied funding to replace our retiring Shakespeare expert.
May 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Fwiw, the Bucknell English Department was just denied funding to replace our retiring Shakespeare expert.
Our OpEd on Bucknell faculty's endorsement of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism was published in the Philly Inquirer today: www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Our campus is trying to clarify the distinction between antisemitism and legitimate debate about the state of Israel | Opinion
Three Bucknell University professors write that their efforts came as a direct response to the silencing of critical voices related to Israel and Palestine on college campuses.
www.inquirer.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Our OpEd on Bucknell faculty's endorsement of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism was published in the Philly Inquirer today: www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Powerful letter from Stockton University faculty: lithub.com/silence-is-c...
Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism
We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi…
lithub.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Powerful letter from Stockton University faculty: lithub.com/silence-is-c...
Reposted by Michael J Drexler
Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator.
In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”
www.washingtonpost.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator.
In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
Worth reposting: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We need an exodus from Zionism | Naomi Klein
This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name
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March 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Worth reposting: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If you get the chance, see The Palestine Exception, a remarkable documentary about the student movement for Palestine, especially in the wake of the Gaza genocide. We brought the film to Bucknell yesterday and we were treated to a Q&A with one of the directors, Jan Haaken.
March 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
If you get the chance, see The Palestine Exception, a remarkable documentary about the student movement for Palestine, especially in the wake of the Gaza genocide. We brought the film to Bucknell yesterday and we were treated to a Q&A with one of the directors, Jan Haaken.
Bucknell University faculty endorse the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, aiming to protect the rights of students, faculty, and staff to speak out in support of Palestinian liberation. The JDA is an alternative to the contradictory and increasingly abused IHRA definition.
March 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Bucknell University faculty endorse the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, aiming to protect the rights of students, faculty, and staff to speak out in support of Palestinian liberation. The JDA is an alternative to the contradictory and increasingly abused IHRA definition.
Wait... The Democratic response to Trump was nostalgia for Reagan?
March 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Wait... The Democratic response to Trump was nostalgia for Reagan?
Reposted by Michael J Drexler
Excellent book review of screed about 'the ideology of settle colonialism'. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Reality of Settler Colonialism - Boston Review
Writers like Adam Kirsch mock the idea to demonize critics of Israel. The phenomenon itself remains.
www.bostonreview.net
February 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Excellent book review of screed about 'the ideology of settle colonialism'. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Saw the powerful film, No Other Land, tonight. m.imdb.com/title/tt3095... brutal and harrowing. It's time for things to change. Free Palestine!
No Other Land (2024) ⭐ 8.3 | Documentary
1h 32m
m.imdb.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Saw the powerful film, No Other Land, tonight. m.imdb.com/title/tt3095... brutal and harrowing. It's time for things to change. Free Palestine!
I have thoughts about Trump threatening to defund schools that require COVID vaccines. If it didn't threaten people I love, I would say here's some rope. But it does. This is insanity.
February 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I have thoughts about Trump threatening to defund schools that require COVID vaccines. If it didn't threaten people I love, I would say here's some rope. But it does. This is insanity.
The rule of law is dead.
January 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The rule of law is dead.
from the Plumer sketches on Timothy Dwight: As a poet he never rose to the highest or sunk to the lowest. His poetry is too artificial and mechannical. It is strained, unnatural, and distinguished for its unbroken monotomy. In his attempts at wit he seldom succeeded."
January 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
from the Plumer sketches on Timothy Dwight: As a poet he never rose to the highest or sunk to the lowest. His poetry is too artificial and mechannical. It is strained, unnatural, and distinguished for its unbroken monotomy. In his attempts at wit he seldom succeeded."
Elon Musk spent $250 million to elect Trump. American democracy is a complete farce.
December 6, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Elon Musk spent $250 million to elect Trump. American democracy is a complete farce.
Latest gem from Plumer's biographical sketches:
Solomon Nildet,
He died in Laurens District, in South Carolina, October 16th
1815 aged one hundred forty three years.
Solomon Nildet,
He died in Laurens District, in South Carolina, October 16th
1815 aged one hundred forty three years.
December 6, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Latest gem from Plumer's biographical sketches:
Solomon Nildet,
He died in Laurens District, in South Carolina, October 16th
1815 aged one hundred forty three years.
Solomon Nildet,
He died in Laurens District, in South Carolina, October 16th
1815 aged one hundred forty three years.
Reading entry about Elbridge Gerry today in Plumer's sketches. XYZ Affair play by play from the man who gave us Gerrymandering.
November 19, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Reading entry about Elbridge Gerry today in Plumer's sketches. XYZ Affair play by play from the man who gave us Gerrymandering.
Israeli expert on Holocaust assets that campaign against Palestinians qualified as a genocide: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240430-yes...
‘Yes, it is genocide’ in Gaza says Israeli professor of Holocaust studies
In a blistering essay on the mass killing and devastation in Gaza, Amos Goldberg, professor of Holocaust History at the department of Jewish history and contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew...
www.middleeastmonitor.com
November 15, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Israeli expert on Holocaust assets that campaign against Palestinians qualified as a genocide: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240430-yes...
Current project is using Transkribus to make William Plumber's Biographical Sketches available online. Plumer is best known for his memoranda of his time in Congress during the Jefferson administration, including fascinating notes about Aaron Burr during the Chase impeachment trial in 1804.
November 14, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Current project is using Transkribus to make William Plumber's Biographical Sketches available online. Plumer is best known for his memoranda of his time in Congress during the Jefferson administration, including fascinating notes about Aaron Burr during the Chase impeachment trial in 1804.