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David Austin Walsh
@DavidAstinWalsh
Historian. Academic Advisor @UVA. Columnist @BostonReview || Book: TAKING AMERICA BACK (2024) https://t.co/Yx71HCV0wS
Jul 24, 2025 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Reading through the Columbia agreement and... wow. The university is now essentially a subsidiary of the Justice Department. Coming soon to my employer as well, no doubt. Hoos ready for a government takeover?
Apr 22, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The thing about Deborah Lipstadt is that she serves as a useful bellwether for liberal Zionist opinion.

In her 2019 interview with Chotiner she wanted to primarily focus on the right-wing antisemitism of the Trump administration and their European allies... Image
Image ...which was in keeping with liberal Zionism's concerns -- in this country and to a lesser extent in Europe -- with right-wing antisemitism after Charlottesville and Tree of Life.

But even then, Lipstadt made it clear that she thought criticism of Israel latently antisemitic... Image
Apr 21, 2025 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Reading through this Ross Barkan piece (h/t @MattPolProf) and it strikes me that there's enough "former anti-woke" people -- James Lindsay, Richard Hanania, Thomas Chatterton Williams, even perhaps Barkan himself -- to qualify as a movement worth studying on its own. Image Lindsay, to me, is the most interesting of this crowd, because he went further than pretty much any of them down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theorism and white nationalism -- even Hanania was more circumspect -- and now he's posting stuff like this...
Mar 11, 2025 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
In practical terms this probably right in terms of getting him out of jail, but the reason that Khalil was abducted by ICE in the first place is because people who despise pro-Palestine protestors spent the better part of a year cheering on state violence against them. Let me put it another way. I came across this interesting (and incredibly depressing) article from @Slate yesterday about women who were thinking about divorcing their husbands because they voted for Trump. slate.com/life/2025/03/d…
May 17, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
But her husband didn’t. The point of hypothetical thought experiments is lost when there are actual material examples to analyze.
May 7, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Fun fact: Meir Kahane started the JDL more or less explicitly as a goon squad to intimidate Black residents integrating Jewish neighborhoods in Boston and Brooklyn. A reporter for the JEWISH ADVOCATE even went a goddamn ride-along with a JDL "patrol car" in December 1970.
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May 1, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I was gonna vote for Biden in November -- for labor and also obviously to keep Trump out of office -- but after tonight...

Man, I don't know. As no less than Abraham Lincoln said:

"When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
Dec 22, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Just read @samuelmoyn in the NYT this morning and I think @ThePlumLineGS is fundamentally correct in this thread. Voters have already rejected Trump and Trumpism in multiple elections, the response to which *by* Trump was to attempt to subvert the peaceful transfer of power. In purely moral and ethical terms, the case for removing Trump from the ballot is a slam-dunk. I'm not a lawyer, so I can't speak definitively to the legal reasoning in the Colorado decision, but it does seem like a pretty airtight case.
Jun 4, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
I keep saying, the fascist threat in America was real in the 1930s and 1940s but it was New Deal social democracy that defeated it, NOT the national security state. I’m working on a paper for SHAFR that is putatively about the John Birch Society’s stance on the Algerian War, but is rapidly turning into liberal coup anxieties during the Second Brown Scare.
Jun 4, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Trying to convince Claire to let me wear a bow tie to the wedding this afternoon. It’s… not going well. Don’t think I’m going to win this one.
Jun 3, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
God help me, I’m seeing IT’S PABLO-MATIC today. Haven’t seen the exhibit yet—saving it for the end of the visit to the Brooklyn Museum, which I have never been to before—but seeing some of the other exhibitions, at least part of that review has to based on how didactic political art centered on identity has been done to death.
Jun 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Maybe the lesson to take away from these articles is just that New York City generally sucks? They wrote exactly fly the same kind of profiles of annoying left parties in Manhattan and Brooklyn five years ago, and annoying popularist parties in Manhattan a year ago.
Jun 2, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
I’m trying to think through the effects on university culture with the looming affirmative action ban.

If I’m understand the intent of its architects correctly, the idea is to use this as a cudgel against DEI and drive its proponents out of higher education entirely. This is predicated on “diversity” as a supply-side phenomenon—it comes from liberal/left institutional capture of the university—and agitation from minority students who would not otherwise be in college without affirmative action.
May 17, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
AI is predictably being treated as a magic bullet by managers and investors to almost completely eliminate labor costs. All of this is reminiscent of the conversations around Hollywood's use of CGI and how CGI has actually gotten *worse* over time, because it's a non-union part of the entertainment industry that is easy to cut costs with.
May 17, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Angry Baseball Man’s “thorough” debunking boils down to “yeah Reagan gave the state’s rights speech at Neshoba but it wasn’t really THAT big of a deal.” Seriously. His “debunking” consists of insisting that Reagan did not launch his campaign at the Neshoba County Fair, it was merely his first general election campaign appearance…. Image
May 16, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Just met with a landlord who informed me that he will not rent to me because I am married.

When I told him this is a Fair Housing Act violation, he said “I own it, I make the rules.” Well, I managed to talk him into at least considering me and to be fair the apartment looks super nice, but… red flag.
May 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The obvious solution to this is to start actually giving out Cs, Ds, and Fs widely in the humanities again. Chatbot can write *maybe* C-quality work, from what I can tell.
May 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Alright, New Haven pizza lives up to the hype. Combines the New York slice with the Chicago tavern cracker-thin crust. Fucking amazing.
May 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I was reflecting today on why I am so hostile on an emotional level to anti-anti-fascism, and being present at Charlottesville in 2017 and out in the streets in 2020—and seeing the two as very much interconnected—is the reason why. Intellectually I think it’s bunk anyway, but there’s also an element of “c’mon, you’re gonna tell me what I saw isn’t what I saw?”
May 13, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Heading up to New Haven tomorrow to apartment hunt and landlords have gotten even worse since the pandemic huh. “Before agreeing to show you the apartment let me ask you a series of questions that skirt up to the line of a Fair Housing Act violation to assure myself that you’re not Black.”
May 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Klippenstein got a lot of shit for posting about Feinstein’s staff, but here’s a POLITICO story about one of her staffers who concluded that Feinstein is senile and her CoS is acting as a shadow senator and quit by taking a selfie of himself smoking a joint in her office. ImageImage The full story is glorious. politico.com/news/magazine/…