🚨 How UVA Launders Politics as Pedagogy and Actively Empties the Humanities

Academic freedom means a professor can design a course around almost anything. But that freedom isn’t a substitute for intellectual substance.

A seminar on “Movies and the Make-up of Trump,” taught by… pic.twitter.com/joqiaxDDQk

— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) December 28, 2025

This is an actual UVA course description for Spring 2026: students will “listen across species” and rethink the Anthropocene as the “Plantationocene” or “Colonialocene,” while reading ecofeminist theory and poetry that makes visible how chattel slavery, imperialism,… pic.twitter.com/GC4gYW5np4

— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) December 28, 2025