Adrian Daub

San Francisco

Professor and Writer at Freelance

Host at The Feminist Present

Zeitgeistprof. @stanford, Director @clayman_inst, Podcast @inbedrightpod, Bylines @zeitonline, @newrepublic, @guardian.

Articles

Inside a Campus Crackdown Over Wokeism in France

1 month ago | newrepublic.com | Adrian Daub

On the morning of March 4, 2021, at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Grenoble, France—colloquially known as Sciences Po Grenoble—a group, probably of students, put up a poster on the side of the main building, a bright, modern structure with a view of the French Alps. The poster called for two professors, Vincent T. and Klaus Kinzler, to step down: “Fascists in Our Lecture Halls [T.] and Kinzler Resign. Islamophobia Kills.”The poster was up for only a short while.
Inside a Campus Crackdown Over Wokeism in France

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Adrian Daub

On the morning of March 4, 2021, at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Grenoble, France—colloquially known as Sciences Po Grenoble—a group, probably of students, put up a poster on the side of the main building, a bright, modern structure with a view of the French Alps. The poster called for two professors, Vincent T. and Klaus Kinzler, to step down: “Fascists in Our Lecture Halls [T.] and Kinzler Resign. Islamophobia Kills.”The poster was up for only a short while.
Adrian Daub: Ihr wolltet, dass queere Kids die Schnauze halten? Jetzt tun sie’s

2 months ago | freitag.de | Adrian Daub

Warum ist es auf den Campussen der US-Universitäten derzeit so still? Adrian Daub ist Professor in Stanford und erinnert an die Vorbereitung der rechten Repression: Wer Listen von „Universitätern“ erstelle, solle sich nicht wundern Von Inmitten von historischen Verwerfungen sind es manchmal die Fragen eher als die Antworten, die uns ein Bild vom Geschehen bieten.
(S+) Meinung: USA unter Donald Trump: Gleichschaltung der Unis erinnert an 1933

Mar 25, 2025 | spiegel.de | Adrian Daub

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(S+) Meinung: USA unter Donald Trump: Gleichstellung der Unis erinnert an 1933

Mar 25, 2025 | spiegel.de | Adrian Daub

Freier Zugriff auf alle S+-Artikel auf SPIEGEL.de und in der AppWöchentlich die digitale Ausgabe des SPIEGEL inkl. E-Paper (PDF), Digital-Archiv und S+-Newsletter52 Wochen rabattierte Laufzeit
Make Meta Great Again: Warum Mark Zuckerberg sich Trump anbiedert

Jan 16, 2025 | freitag.de | Adrian Daub

Meta präsentierte sich lange als fortschrittliches Unternehmen. Nun sucht Mark Zuckerberg die Nähe zu Donald Trump und fordert im Podcast von Joe Rogan wieder mehr „männliche Energie“ in Unternehmen. Was steckt dahinter? Von Eine frappierende Erkenntnis der letzten Jahre lautet: Die Superreichen sind in vielerlei Hinsicht so wie wir.
Joan Didion and Mike Davis understood LA through its fires. Even they didn’t predict this week

Jan 11, 2025 | theguardian.com | Adrian Daub

Talking about fire and Los Angeles is an exercise in repetition. Southern California does have seasons, Joan Didion once noted in Blue Nights, among them “the season when the fire comes”. Fire in Los Angeles has a singular ability to shock, with its destruction that takes “grimly familiar pathways” down the canyons and into the subdivisions. The phrase comes from Mike Davis’s 1995 essay The Case for Letting Malibu Burn, and it is as true for the fires as for our talk of the fires.
The Forgotten Book Genre That Explains a Lot About Today’s Culture Wars

Jan 4, 2025 | slate.com | Adrian Daub

History Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When it comes to our moral panics, it sometimes feels like the 1980s and 1990s never ended.
Cars, Climate and Self-Certainty

Nov 29, 2024 | adriandaub.substack.com | Adrian Daub

A few years ago, I had a conversation with a German visitor to Stanford. He was quite friendly, it was a beautiful California day, and he seemed genuinely curious about the place and its denizens. At some point I mentioned in passing that I drove an electric vehicle.
The Campus Controversy Complex

Oct 24, 2024 | thepenngazette.com | Adrian Daub

Collegiate speech rules are not as dystopian as some would have you believe. By Adrian DaubOnce upon a time, students at the University of Illinois were required to attend a morning service in the university chapel, listen to a faculty member read “a portion of the New Testament,” “repeat the Lord’s Prayer,” and “sing religious hymns.” A student named Foster North objected; the university (a state institution) expelled him.