Hank Reichman
@hankreichman.bsky.social
Former AAUP Vice-President; Former Chair AAUP Committee A; Author, The Future of Academic Freedom (Johns Hopkins U. P., 2019); Understanding Academic Freedom (JHUP, 2021, 2025). Prof. Emer., CSU East Bay. Historian of Russia/Soviet Union.
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Understanding Academic Freedom
In the evolving landscape of academic freedom in America, this second edition addresses the latest challenges and developments in the field.Since the publication of the first edition of Understanding ...
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Understanding Academic Freedom
In the evolving landscape of academic freedom in America, this second edition addresses the latest challenges and developments in the field.Since the publication of the first edition of Understanding ...
www.press.jhu.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Dropkick Murphys
Remove the regime Washington DC
Remove the regime Washington DC
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Dropkick Murphys
Remove the regime Washington DC
Remove the regime Washington DC
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There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
At #ASEES25 discussing academic freedom, I thought of reposting this: academeblog.org/2025/06/12/m.... @aaup.org @aseees.bsky.social
More on Academic Unfreedom in Russia
BY HANK REICHMAN In the winter 2025 issue of Academe, which I guest-edited, exiled Russian scholars Ilya Matveev and Evgeny Roshchin surveyed the state of academic freedom in that country in the af…
academeblog.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
At #ASEES25 discussing academic freedom, I thought of reposting this: academeblog.org/2025/06/12/m.... @aaup.org @aseees.bsky.social
As faculty governance is attacked, a bit of relevant history. #Academia academeblog.org/2025/11/19/o...
On Faculty Senates and the “Berkeley Revolution of 1919-20”
BY HANK REICHMAN This week the AAUP released a report, In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates, prepared by a subcommittee of the AAUP’…
academeblog.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
As faculty governance is attacked, a bit of relevant history. #Academia academeblog.org/2025/11/19/o...
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WE WON!!!
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
democracyforward.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
WE WON!!!
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
I was excited to record this podcast with the esteemed journalist Robert Scheer for his fantastic site, Scheer Post: scheerpost.com/2025/11/14/d... #Academia
Defending the Ivory Tower: Hank Reichman on the Fight for Academic Freedom in the Age of Trump
Photo Courtesy of Guest Welcome to the Scheer Intelligence podcast, where we probe the forces reshaping academia and the growing struggle to protect intellectual freedom. In this episode, renowned …
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November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I was excited to record this podcast with the esteemed journalist Robert Scheer for his fantastic site, Scheer Post: scheerpost.com/2025/11/14/d... #Academia
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JD's family has spent $35M on vacations. Kash Patel used a $60M FBI jet to go on a date. Trump spent $98M to golf for 24% of the days of this term. All our tax dollars. But you think single moms getting $6 a day for SNAP is the problem?
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 AM
JD's family has spent $35M on vacations. Kash Patel used a $60M FBI jet to go on a date. Trump spent $98M to golf for 24% of the days of this term. All our tax dollars. But you think single moms getting $6 a day for SNAP is the problem?
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Shock doctrine tactics supported by schlock data make a mockery of shared governance. UNL AAUP are fighting hard. Time for faculty at every university going through "program review" to stand with their colleagues and students being targeted. @aaup #highered
www.chronicle.com/article/a-un...
www.chronicle.com/article/a-un...
U. of Nebraska’s Attempt to Measure Academic Programs’ Productivity Draws Faculty Ire
Administrators at the Lincoln campus say insufficient state aid and a decline in enrollment resulted in a $27.5-million budget deficit.
www.chronicle.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Shock doctrine tactics supported by schlock data make a mockery of shared governance. UNL AAUP are fighting hard. Time for faculty at every university going through "program review" to stand with their colleagues and students being targeted. @aaup #highered
www.chronicle.com/article/a-un...
www.chronicle.com/article/a-un...
This is true and important!!
At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This is true and important!!
Wow!
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Wow!
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A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees
Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees
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i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
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Conversely if bunch of moderate Senate Dems like Masto, Hassan, Shaheen, Peters, Osoff et al decide to cave to Trump and Republicans after tonight with just a promise of a vote on ACA. ...
Now would be the time to tell those Sen Dems - don't surrender. #NoKings www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
Now would be the time to tell those Sen Dems - don't surrender. #NoKings www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
!["“I don’t think there’s a clear outcome. A lot of different views expressed. Some people said nothing. I can’t tell you exactly what we’re doing next,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told Semafor. “We’re still talking about terms of agreement and if there are enough [Democratic yes votes].”
Many centrists are seeking a way out of the increasingly painful five-week shutdown even as progressives urge the party to stick to its position of fighting for health care. Those centrists dominated a Monday night meeting where nearly a dozen Senate Democrats huddled to discuss a path forward."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cf26plxwia7dxpm6plry3sj2/bafkreie6x3vepgyjbn24cimop4y5ot6pbpvrb2i5yyiq5nsofnqi5zo6dy@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Conversely if bunch of moderate Senate Dems like Masto, Hassan, Shaheen, Peters, Osoff et al decide to cave to Trump and Republicans after tonight with just a promise of a vote on ACA. ...
Now would be the time to tell those Sen Dems - don't surrender. #NoKings www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
Now would be the time to tell those Sen Dems - don't surrender. #NoKings www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
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Feeling optimistic for Virginia colleges and universities tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Feeling optimistic for Virginia colleges and universities tonight.
"the party at Mar a Lago wasn’t a case of tone deafness, living it up despite others’ suffering. It was in large part a party held to celebrate others’ suffering." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-big-smirk
The Big Smirk
The cruelty is the point, party edition
paulkrugman.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"the party at Mar a Lago wasn’t a case of tone deafness, living it up despite others’ suffering. It was in large part a party held to celebrate others’ suffering." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-big-smirk
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Soon after publishing this—and it's not ironic, it's intentional—Heritage was given near-total control over the fed gov't and filled it with unqualified malicious incompetent crooks. Any one of these imaginary enemies of his would be better in the job than all of Trump's actual appointees.
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Soon after publishing this—and it's not ironic, it's intentional—Heritage was given near-total control over the fed gov't and filled it with unqualified malicious incompetent crooks. Any one of these imaginary enemies of his would be better in the job than all of Trump's actual appointees.
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The President of the United States is so upset about his failed campaign for a Nobel Prize that he's now trying to claim someone else's prize as his own.
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The President of the United States is so upset about his failed campaign for a Nobel Prize that he's now trying to claim someone else's prize as his own.
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
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Harvard AAUP's Ryan Enos explains the importance of colleges working together to combat Trump’s attempts to shake down universities.
#defendhighered
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#defendhighered
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Transcript: Elite Colleges Reject Trump’s Authoritarian “Compact”
Harvard’s Ryan Enos explains the importance of colleges working together to combat Trump’s attempts to shake down universities.
newrepublic.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Harvard AAUP's Ryan Enos explains the importance of colleges working together to combat Trump’s attempts to shake down universities.
#defendhighered
@ryanenos.bsky.social
#defendhighered
@ryanenos.bsky.social
"The first step toward encouraging debates and viewpoint diversity is to reject the mistaken notion that colleges and organizations are guilty by association with any professor who says or writes something controversial." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
No, the AAUP Is Not Opposing Reform
We need to recognize a broad range of views opposing government censorship, even if we think they have pursued the wrong strategy.
www.insidehighered.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"The first step toward encouraging debates and viewpoint diversity is to reject the mistaken notion that colleges and organizations are guilty by association with any professor who says or writes something controversial." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
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Polebridge, Montana, and the surrounding North Fork area only has around 100 full-time residents. On Saturday, the hamlet on the edge of Glacier National Park saw more than 60 people attend a No Kings Indivisible rally at the dirt road intersection.
October 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Polebridge, Montana, and the surrounding North Fork area only has around 100 full-time residents. On Saturday, the hamlet on the edge of Glacier National Park saw more than 60 people attend a No Kings Indivisible rally at the dirt road intersection.
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WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime
October 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime
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BOOM!
After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe,
UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH!
✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾
M.I.T. ☑️
BROWN ☑️
PENN ☑️
USC☑️
UVA ☑️
This is People Power in Action.
#DefendHigherEd
After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe,
UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH!
✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾
M.I.T. ☑️
BROWN ☑️
PENN ☑️
USC☑️
UVA ☑️
This is People Power in Action.
#DefendHigherEd
October 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
BOOM!
After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe,
UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH!
✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾
M.I.T. ☑️
BROWN ☑️
PENN ☑️
USC☑️
UVA ☑️
This is People Power in Action.
#DefendHigherEd
After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe,
UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH!
✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾
M.I.T. ☑️
BROWN ☑️
PENN ☑️
USC☑️
UVA ☑️
This is People Power in Action.
#DefendHigherEd
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If you are faculty, alumni, staff, student, or a student's parent at any of these places, you have an unusual chance to influence the future right now by communicating with your administration clearly about what's at stake.
October 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
If you are faculty, alumni, staff, student, or a student's parent at any of these places, you have an unusual chance to influence the future right now by communicating with your administration clearly about what's at stake.