Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
@llassabe.bsky.social
historian, author, speaker, podcaster
Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars (UNC Press, 2023), Degrees of Liberation (forthcoming!)

🎧 American Campus Podcast
https://linktr.ee/llassabe
Every time I read the chronicle of higher Ed’s daily briefing newsletter I ask myself why I didn’t just hit delete first
October 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Heads up we’re doing CK quote memes styled as founding fathers portraiture now
October 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“high-performing portions of the government’s portfolio of student debt”
October 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hey can anyone find one single example of this
October 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
TIL about Hims/Hers
September 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Absolutely cutting up on Twitter
September 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This diva!
September 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
aesthetics are more important to liberals than material reality because they are not materially harmed by our reality but offended by its aesthetics
September 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Influencer uses Twitter to dictate policy to useful idiot overlord
September 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
September 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Happy pub day @andyhines.bsky.social and co!!

Yall look at this incredible TOC
September 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
After a hike and 6 paragraphs we could not get the students to stop debating! Ultimately, the transhumanists beat out the monarchists. All shook hands and settled in for a lunch of red meat and anti-aging supplements. But the debate resumed during the afternoon cold plunge
September 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🙂‍↕️
September 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m cackling because it’s true and he picked a great example
September 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
One of my favorite blogs is Book Work by @derekkrissoff.bsky.social

Today’s piece on the hype over Banned Books Week and how much is actually obscures about the publishing industry is 📣📣📣
August 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
From the right’s premier intellectual organization, ISI.

Remembering that there are two (!!) reviews of my book in academic journals that say I’m unjustly critical of conservative intellectuals.

My friends, I give you the conservative intellectuals:
August 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Oh
August 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This makes my eyes bleed
August 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Popped over to the Other Site for a second. How i miss it
August 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
“We often forget that the bankers to whom students and our institutions are indebted produce nothing”

As the kids say 🥀🥀🥀
August 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The Hagia Sophia, Taj Mahal, Versailles, Alhambra, St. Peter’s, Topkapi, Angkor Wat, the pyramids and even the Chrysler building all pale in comparison to the White House with its glorious East Room
August 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I’m sorry, in the world?
August 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
And incredible piece by David Busch in the Boston Review
July 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
July 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Historians would like a word
July 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM