
Dan Morrison(@danielrmorrison.bsky.social) interviews Jared Yates Sexton (@jysexton.bsky.social), a former faculty member and current independent thinker, writer, and creator. Sexton is author of several books, including The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People, and The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making. They spoke about the role of academics as a group and higher education as a sector in responding to the coming Trump administration.