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May 8, 2026, catching up: new books and fighting Howard Zinn in Walton County, GA, schools
Dissident Prof News, by Mary Grabar, Posted May 8, 2026: Here are some things that have been happening in Dissident Prof world:
Board member Ann Hartle's book about Flannery O'Connor (a favorite to teach when the Dissident Prof was still allowed to) and Blaise Pascal was favorably reviewed in Law & Liberty by Henry Edmondson, III, Professor Emeritus, Political Science and Public Administration at Georgia College, Edmondson calls Hartle's book, Flannery O'Connor and Blaise Pascal: Recovering the Incarnation for the Modern Mind, an insightful and at times brilliant analysis," Approaching O'Connor's fiction from a philosophical perspective, Hartle "illumin[ates] the meaning of [O'Connor's] stories for the searching mind of modern man."
I always discovered some new meaning each time I taught Flannery O'Connor. Ann's book takes us deeper into the philosophical debates about modernity (Pascal, Montagne, Jung) and the diagnostician and expositor of the spiritual vacuum in the mid-twentieth century.
The Dissident Prof looks forward to taking to her armchair with Ann's book and her marked-up copies of O'Connor, but is also fast at work on book #4.
Happy 250th Birthday, USA: The Heritage Guide to Historic Sites
The Heritage Guide to Historic Sites, Now Up and Ready for Travel Season, posted by Mary Grabar, February 17, 2026: Take a look before you go. Mary Grabar, the Dissident Prof, has an entry about the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park and the Harriet Tubman National Home, both in Auburn, New York. The petite, but indefatagible Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery in Maryland, led about 70 enslaved and free family members to the North in the years leading up to the Civil War and then served as a scout and a nurse during the war.
To get a sense of what the guide covers, read "What We as Americans Can Learn from Historic Sites" by Brenda Hafera, Assistant Director and Research Fellow for the Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. She was great to work with!
Before you go, see the map to lay out your trip, and learn about the historical accuracy of each site, along with the suitablitty for children in The Heritage Guide to Historic Sites: Rediscovering America's Heritage
The Science and Pseudoscience of Violence
The Science and Pseudoscience of Violence by Brandon Smith, posted April 16, 2025:
While my knowledge of the natural sciences was rather limited prior to enrolling in Peter Boghossian's PHL 306U “Science and Pseudoscience” course in 2015, I was pleasantly surprised that its curriculum touched on a topic with which I was more familiar given my experience as a wrestler: combat sports. It quickly became clear to me that Peter was at least equally enthusiastic about the topic. The former “canceled” Portland State philosophy professor, who holds a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ), has recently produced a YouTube series with Straight Blast Gym founder and BJJ black belt holder Matt Thornton, who authored The Gift of Violence in 2023 and spoke to the class as a guest lecturer. It is unfortunate for current Portland State students that Peter resigned from the university following a controversial run-in with its Institutional Review Board which constrained his ability to conduct research on human subjects, but the vital knowledge he and Matt have shared regarding the scientific reality of violent encounters warrants wide consideration from fans of more flashy big-screen fighting who may find themselves in a legitimately lethal situation.
When University Leaders Won't Lead
When University Leaders Won't Lead by Matthew G. Andersson, Posted May 7, 2024 by Mary Grabar (photo: wikimedia commons)
There are a number of college campus protests going on right now, and they will likely continue in some form, for some time. You may be sympathetic, or you may object on a number of very legitimate grounds. But I’d like to raise another aspect of student protesting, in general, as it relates to how the modern university is organized, and how it has responded to campus protests going back decades. The causes are almost always the same: strong objections to war, to civilian casualties, to war profiteering, and to political privilege. Universities are a natural place to protest and visibly object, as they are in the intellectual center of the foreign policy and intelligence establishment, and they are central to federal and commercial research that is also often directly tied to various forms of warfare science. They are also places where vast sums of money are transferred or even disguised as “research” and they operate as effective arms of the federal government, and on behalf of major corporate interests that together create the well-known industrial complex. They are famous for forming funded “centers” that even assert an expertise in global conflict, and as educational “stepping stones” to the State Department.
The Howard Zinn School of History Writing
"The Howard Zinn School of History Writing" at Doc Emet Productions, Posted September 5, 2023, by Mary Grabar
"On a cold January Night in 2019. . . . Read "The Howard Zinn School of History Writing" for the saga of Debunking Howard Zinn and the efforts by the Left to suppress its revelations.
- Brutal Minds, review by M.D. Allen
- The Imperialist Strikes Back: In Defense of German Colonialism
- Covid Vaccine Pushers
- On Thomas Jefferson's Birthday
- Is the Law Dead?
- Asserting Our American Christian and Classical Heritage
- In Defense of American Democracy
- What Happens When Law Schools Embrace Critical Race Theory?
- Why Are Universities Pushing Covid Vaccination?
- The "Chicago School": What It Really Is and Why It Matters
- Samizdat, Beautiful Italy, January 10, 2021
- A New Direction or the Status Quo for University Leadership: The Case of the University of Chicago
- Speaking in Athens, GA
- Debunking Howard Zinn Portland to Atlanta Speaking Tour
- National Vietnam War Veterans Day 2020
- On Grading Zinn-ers' Papers
- Grievance Studies Exposed at Portland State
- Covid-19 on Campus: Turning the University of Chicago into a Re-Education Camp
- University Greek Life: A "Super-Spreader" of Independence?
- White House Conference on American History
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