Adam Kunz

Five years later, I’m excited to say that I’ve realized Wisconsin and I are committed to each other. Today, I was officially told that starting this fall, I will be tenured and promoted to associate professor at UW-Eau Claire!

Nationalize Starlink yesterday.

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Thank you to the students who participated in today's Campus Free Speech & Academic Freedom Workshop. Thank you also to our co-sponsor, the @universitieswi.bsky.social Office of Civic Engagement. Our facilitators included Ashley Nowak, @adamkunz.com, Phil Rechek, & @erictkasper.bsky.social.

I’m basically screaming into the void at the point because nothing will ever change, but allowing churches to get away with this is not a sign of a healthy society. www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

“Free Speech & Incitement in the 21st Century” will take place on Mon., Oct. 19 at 5:30pm in Centennial 1804 at UW-Eau Claire. Panelists for this event are @joannesweeny.bsky.social, @adamkunz.com, & @erictkasper.bsky.social. The event is free and open to the public. It is part of #FreeSpeechWeek

But not the Mormon church. They're too busy buying up real estate property and suing people who use the word "Mormon." www.cnn.com/2026/10/09/e...

The President of the United States

It must be a requirement of all higher ed admins to be the type of person who treats everything faculty do with suspcion. Just once in my career I’d like to have a conversation with a campus leader who doesn’t approach every new effort with hostility or like they’re trying to investigate a crime.

When your belief system is a hammer, everything is a nail.

This came to me in a vision last night, and the irony of my using AI to make it is not lost on me.

Whoopsies www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

It was a real pleasure hosting @radiofreetom.bsky.social this week for Constitution Day at the @uwec-menard-ccs.bsky.social. Come back and visit anytime, Tom! We’ll get a copy of “Command & Conquer: Red Alert” and fire up an old Packard Bell!

As someone who was a high school senior 25 years ago and has had my entire adult life defined by post-9/11 bullshit, I’m not *at all* looking forward to the endless, performative hot takes tomorrow.

I’m sorry, what fresh hell is this?

I know that AI-apocalypticism is the flip side of AI-utopianism, the two sides united in thinking this is the most important tech in the world of utterly transformative importance. And I know that a lot of us on here are allergic to both sides of that, me very much included. 1

Whoops.

Liberals say that our democracy is in a death spiral. They're wrong—our republic is in a death spiral.

Dr. Pepper is a woman and a department chair. She makes 90% less than Mr. Pibb, the newly hired football coach.

A government of ghouls www.cnn.com/2026/09/03/p...

Wendell never gave up on the good parts of Jeffersonian democracy.

Settle a debate for me: When you turn your phone horizontally to watch something in full screen, is the volume on the top or the bottom?

So much for ambition

Only analytic philosophers get to disparage analytic philosophy. When others do it it’s in poor taste.

It was a pleasure meeting and speaking with Jess for this article. Thanks to @noemamag.com for interviewing me!

In no real sense is the academy, especially the elite academy, "radical." Sure, there are radicals here. But it hews close to its longstanding function as a machine of class reproduction. The supposedly radical elite academy churns out finance & tech bros (of all genders), lobbyists, nice doctors.

keywords (so far): Natalie Harp, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Jon Ossoff, Zohran Mamdani, Gretchen Whitmer www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACfJ... join us, this is live right now

Which circle of hell is the annual college retreat?

That one business major who’s taking the IR class as an elective.

I just want to say this: @liberalcurrents.com unites both of these groups, understands that both concerns are interconnected, and in addition to our usual articles on the topics, has published a collection aimed at all of it www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

The contract period starts tomorrow, and I just don’t think I have it in me this year.

“I have to be blunt here: Our critics are really fucking stupid, and we’ve given them way too much leeway to conjure senile fantasies out of their own illiteracy. We need to stop taking their trolling in good faith, and we need to stop apologizing for our work.” This is exquisite on The Discourse.

The problem has never been the picture or picture taking. The problem has always been that Very Smart People spend all of their time trying to convince the public that the picture is a reliable way to decide where to park, when that is not the case.

More of this sassiness.

Sorry to the Kalshi bros.

Cooke had better have this playing behind her campaign ads until November, or I’ll lose it. youtu.be/k5hWWe-ts2s?...

I concur. Damn good book.

“A poll! A poll! My kingdom for a poll!” - some Dem politico in Wisconsin, probably

* SPACEX PLANS TO ESTABLISH "CHEESE MINES" ON THE MOON TO DISRUPT GLOBAL DAIRY MARKET * SPACEX ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH ANDURIL TO PROTECT CHEESE MINES FROM BIKER MICE FROM MARS * ELON MUSK CALLS LACTOSE INTOLERANCE A "WOKE LIE", DONATES $1.5B TO PRO-LACTOSE SUPER PAC

TFW the journal that desk rejected your manuscript (because it was "better suited for law review journals") is now hounding you for the review you agreed to do

Skeleton key accounts of history fall short

Update: Kornacki’s on TikTok Live, and I just saw a Perez Hilton skeet. So, my algorithm is the same regardless. I blame myself.

Abandoning all social media except Bluesky and TikTok is a wild experience. Tonight, it’s a choice between endless Dem primary hot takes or wading through the fallout of Perez Hilton’s psychotic break.