Trinity College Alum Writes Letter Calling on School to Sever Ties With Conservative
“Like many culture warriors, Kissel loves pointing out universities’ supposed grave violations of constitutional law to distract us from the current administration’s most glaring violations of fundamental rights”
This is personal for us because Adam Kissel is a research fellow at the Equal Protection Project.
The letter was published in the Trinity Tripod:
Adam Kissel: Trump’s Backdoor Into Trinity
This fall, Trinity welcomed the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy Fellow Adam Kissel to the faculty. Given the current political and educational environment, the potential for loss by Trinity is such that I call on the school to re-examine their decision to invite Kissel to campus.
A cursory look into Kissel’s online presence (his X account has been privatized in recent days) uncovers a sizable body of work dedicated to standard issue culture war frenzy. This activity is nothing more than a distraction that serves as bait for college students and a variety of ideological rivals. Kissel participates in the culture war to direct attention away from real issues such as plainly worsening inequality or the current administration’s rapid encroachment on constitutional freedoms—an administration whose first iteration Kissel worked for and whose second iteration he helped to provide with its authoritarian playbook. His politics also distract from the question of why Trinity’s formal organizations department (FOrg) decided to hire someone with minimal professorial experience and with degrees in English, American literature, and social thought to teach “Theory & Philosophy of Markets.” Kissel’s job is to twist and exaggerate perceived injustices to distract from the heinous crimes they are committing, and in this case, likely to open a backdoor into Trinity’s campus to bring a respected institution down a few notches.
Like many culture warriors, Kissel loves pointing out universities’ supposed grave violations of constitutional law to distract us from the current administration’s most glaring violations of fundamental rights—often with universities’ help. As he points out, “Far too many American colleges and universities make violating civil rights laws part of their daily routine,” his belief being that white students are consistently discriminated against on campuses. Yet, students like Rumeysa Ozturk, Mahmoud Khalil and thousands of others who have had their visas revoked and rights trampled—often with the help of their host institutions—seem to fly under his radar. Universities, such as Columbia, whose capitulation to the Trump administration Kissel celebrated and promoted the spread of to other campuses (potentially Trinity?), have taken the lead in silencing student dissent. We must ask if Kissel has arrived at Trinity to spread this troubling theme.
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Typical liberal projection. Everything they accuse Conservatives of is what they are doing themselves.
The Trinity Tripod is a “student newspaper”.
“Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, is a nonsectarian liberal arts college with a historical affiliation with the Episcopal Church. While its charter prohibits religious conformity for students and faculty, the college’s Episcopal heritage is still evident in its name and Chapel.”
Episcopal = almost certainly apostate
“prohibits religious conformity” – except for leftism
religions generally are lefty in their political approaches
Allah’s final revelation and its adherents kindz disagree.
But they’ll cooperate with Reds until they conquer the decadent West.
Then they’ll annihilate the Reds.
Typical pseudo intellectual prattle from a coward who would rather ban than debate in a competitive ideological marketplace of ideas.