A lesson on dark money influence in campus culture wars

References and suggested readings:

• Isaac Kamola. Spring 2025. Understanding the Evolving Culture-War Vernacular. Academe Magazine. 
• Isaac Kamola. 2019. Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary. Duke University Press.
• Ralph Wilson and Isaac Kamola. 2021. Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War. Pluto Press. 
• Roderick A. Ferguson. 2017. We Demand: The University and Student Protests. University of California Press.
• Nancy MacLean. 2018. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. Penguin.
• Christopher Newfield. 2011. Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class. Harvard University Press.
• John K. Wilson. 1995. The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education. Duke University Press.
• Kendal Gerdes on the 2010s, safe spaces, and trigger warnings.
• AAUP Presents: Academic Freedom on the Line podcast and newsletter
• AAUP’s academic freedom syllabus, module, field guide, first aid kit, border crossing guide and international travel tips
• Benjamin Wallace-Wells. June 18, 2021. How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory. New Yorker. 
• Percival Everett books
• James McBride. 2021. Deacon King Kong. Riverhead.
• Ethan Rutherford. 2025. North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther. Strange Object. 
• [email protected] and follow on Bluesky

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