Writer, teacher, ex-hockey player, occasional golfer, drummer, actor. All the opinions here are mine. Mine, I say!https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mumtf5hbfk2zEd Simon graciously invited me to write a thing for the first anniversary of the Pittsburgh Review of Books, so I did: https://pghrev.com/why-we-need-this-here-thing/ (Also check out the essays by Hollis Robbins, Chris Schaberg, and Tom Zoellner!)03 Sep 2026 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumtf5hbfk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3muid57iu5c25No, the Supreme Court will determine that if the next president is a Democrat he will not have any unilateral authority at all [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Sep 2026 21:05 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3muid57iu5c25https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3muhuhdcvhc2jAnother life snuffed out, another marital aid for Stephen Miller tiny.cc/tap9101 http://tiny.cc/tap910101 Sep 2026 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhuhdcvhc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mpkcybrbt227Narrow majority of Supreme Court justices rule that Constitution is constitutional. Let the delirious celebrations begin!01 Jul 2026 01:01 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpkcybrbt227https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mphea75zlk25It's amazing that someone as stupid and dishonest as Alito got into Princeton in the first place. If I were an alum, I would definitely be Concerned. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jun 2026 20:46 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mphea75zlk25https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mo462xmc622rI *so* wish that awesome World Humanities Report had gotten even one percent of the attention it deserved. Kudos to Sara Guyer and CHCI for putting it together-- over six years! worldhumanitiesreport.org [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Jun 2026 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo462xmc622rhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mo3yfcyruc22My response to that "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences" is up. tinyurl.com/y39crkzp As I say on Facebook, I back-loaded the good stuff, like showing that the authors' account of the 2017 Hypatia controversy reveals them to be unreliable reporters. https://pghrev.com/report-on-the-state-of-a-report-on-the-humanities/12 Jun 2026 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo3yfcyruc22https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mnzpn7mjp22mOK, I have been roused from my dogmatic slumber, and I'll have a response to that awful report on the humanities and humanistic social sciences tomorrow in the Pittsburgh Review of Books. Thanks once again to editor Ed Simon!11 Jun 2026 17:07 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnzpn7mjp22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mncrzombus2pBetween the spike in suicides in ICE concentration camps and the outbreak of Ebola enabled by the dismantling of USAID, I'd say the Musk-Miller agenda is proceeding precisely as planned02 Jun 2026 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mncrzombus2phttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mmx25f4p4s2mIn the history of big media, has there ever been a bigger grifter than Bari Weiss?28 May 2026 22:12 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmx25f4p4s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mmeslbeudc2eBREAKING: Supreme Court issues shadow docket ruling holding that Trump's $1.776B slush fund for J6 insurrectionists is unconstitutional unless Alito and Thomas get a cut21 May 2026 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmeslbeudc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mmbp6ircwc2mHey, remember ten years ago when Trump destroyed the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts?20 May 2026 10:30 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmbp6ircwc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mm5j46ab2s2kMaybe it's just me but I have the funny feeling that yesterday's Christian nationalist rally in DC was way more antisemitic than a bunch of college students concerned about human rights in Gaza https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2026/05/17/thousands-expected-rededicate-250-prayer-jubilee18 May 2026 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm5j46ab2s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mlt6fdurc22iI wrote about academic freedom and democracy for the Pittsburgh Review of Books, but I didn't say the usual things you would expect a person to say about academic freedom and democracy. I said other things instead. Hence the title of the essay! tinyurl.com/2skc3aum Thanks to Ed Simon for the gig. https://pghrev.com/some-counterintuitive-things-about-academic-freedom-and-democracy/14 May 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt6fdurc22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mjndzg7wks23Pete Hegseth's next prayer will be from the Book of Armaments, chapter 2, verses 9-21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ashgP4YMdJw16 Apr 2026 21:27 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjndzg7wks23https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mh7chfahzk2bI would sit down with my granddaughter for six hours and teach her how to use the can opener [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Mar 2026 20:31 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh7chfahzk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mguoncavyc2sThis is judiciously phrased [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Mar 2026 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mguoncavyc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mgslncbplc2kRug-on-Face-Man trying to compete with Dinesh D'Souza's famous line, "The American slave *was* treated like property, which is to say, pretty well." It's a high bar to clear. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Mar 2026 19:11 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgslncbplc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mgskvwhd4k2kWatching "The Secret Agent" and remembering watching "I'm Still Here" and wondering whether we will have to wait 40 years for movies to be made about what ICE and DHS are doing right now11 Mar 2026 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgskvwhd4k2khttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mgpth3wqks25Good to know we cancelled all those wasteful NEH grants and USAID so that the money could go to 5% of a missile aimed at a girls' school10 Mar 2026 16:53 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgpth3wqks25https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mgn2ku5tdk23Pretty sure that Timothée Chamalet made that remark about opera and ballet simply to distract us from the fact that he did a Willy Wonka movie that can be watched for twenty minutes max09 Mar 2026 14:22 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgn2ku5tdk23https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mgauvjnwvs2eMany thanks to @publicbooks.bsky.social for publishing this piece, in which Urmila Seshagiri and I discuss (a) del Toro's idiosyncratic (to put it kindly) adaptation of "Frankenstein," (b) adaptations of "Frankenstein" in general, and even (c) adaptations in general. All in under 3000 words! [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Mar 2026 18:09 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgauvjnwvs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mfrmta36i225Finally a law that will protect girls from having to compete with trans women driving cars tiny.cc/9wiz001 http://tiny.cc/9wiz00126 Feb 2026 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfrmta36i225https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mfkhj3b4sk2hNot the worst thing about this video but just gotta say that OF COURSE it's Matthew Tkachuk putting that medal on Patel [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Feb 2026 20:10 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfkhj3b4sk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mfcyuq5mlk2nHive mind question: does anyone have contact info for Kathryn Allan, the writer on disability and science fiction, who used to tweet as @BleedingChrome?20 Feb 2026 21:00 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfcyuq5mlk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mf5xwdadrs2cJust as Donald Trump tempts us to be nostalgic for the wisdom and eloquence of Dan Quayle, and Pam Bondi tempts us to be nostalgic for the sagacity of Alberto Gonzales or the rectitude of John Mitchell, the culture vacuum on the American right is almost enough to make us nostalgic for Allan Bloom. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Feb 2026 20:59 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5xwdadrs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mf3fgvnlps24It's almost as if Bari Weiss's "free speech" thing was a grift from start to finish [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Feb 2026 20:23 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf3fgvnlps24https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3mf3ferawmc24Seems odd that the dudes who want to smash the administrative state are also the dudes who want to build concentration camps throughout the US17 Feb 2026 20:22 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf3ferawmc24https://bsky.app/profile/michael-berube.bsky.social/post/3meqnf6pgh22mSteven Miller is going to appear under a banner reading "Mission Accomplished" [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Feb 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:boaml3nti2qkd4glouvcdwe3/app.bsky.feed.post/3meqnf6pgh22m