Archive - Systematic Hatreds

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

Oct 9, 2025 • Paul Musgrave

You Mean I Still Have to Go to Class?

Yeah, I'm the professor, but the world's on fire

Jan 29, 2025 • Paul Musgrave

The Old World Order is Dead

Unipolarity was given, not taken

Jan 20 • Paul Musgrave

At the Coalface

Notes from the working end of academia during the assault

Jul 15, 2025 • Paul Musgrave

Don't Do a Ph.D. Now

At least in the United States

Sep 13, 2025 • Paul Musgrave

An Unpopular, Doomed, Bloody War

People will die and nothing will be accomplished

Feb 28 • Paul Musgrave

Oh No, I Betrayed America

My journey to a Huawei watch

Jul 5, 2025 • Paul Musgrave

What the Kids Are Reading

Engaging with the new generation and its media consumption

Jan 18, 2022 • Paul Musgrave

The End of American Higher Education

Perhaps not a Dark Age but a darker age at least

Feb 20, 2025 • Paul Musgrave

The wacky world of university endowments

Aug 15, 2023 • Paul Musgrave

Is Canada Defensible?

Tough times and tough questions; plus, a note for subscribers

Feb 11, 2025 • Paul Musgrave

Political Science In the Polycrisis

My keynote talk to an online APSA conference

May 3 • Paul Musgrave

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