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Tyler Austin Harper

On the politics of the average American

John Fea   |  December 13, 2024

Tyler Austin Harper brings the evidence: The politics of the average American are not well represented by either party right now. On economic issues, large majorities of the electorate support progressive positions: They say that making sure everyone has health-care coverage is […]

Are we past “peak woke?” Nope. Just look at some conservatives.

John Fea   |  July 24, 2024

Tyler Austin Harper argues that “wokeness” is as much about form as it is content. When it comes to form, many conservatives appear to be just as “woke” as the progressive reactionaries they despise. Here is a taste of Harper’s […]

What is going on at the University of North Carolina?

John Fea   |  October 29, 2023

Here is Brianna Atkinson at WUNC-North Carolina Public Radio: “The UNC System Board of Governors allocated $3.7 billion of operating expenses from the state budget. The two-year funding plan includes money for new university programs, rural healthcare partnerships and faculty […]

The “most radical thing” universities “have accomplished in the 21st century is hiking their tuition rates and plunging millions…further into debt”

John Fea   |  October 20, 2023

Here is Bates College environmental studies professor Tyler Austin Harper at The Atlantic: The most popular major at Harvard, Yale, and many other supposedly leftist universities is economics—not exactly the subject of choice for aspiring anti-capitalists. At the University of […]

Ibram X. Kendi’s “failure, intellectual and moral, is as much ours as it is his”

John Fea   |  September 29, 2023

Back in June we brought some attention to Bates University environmental studies scholar Tyler Austin Harper‘s New York Times piece on race and college admissions. Now, in a piece at The Washington Post, he has weighed-in on the Ibram X. […]