The Capacity to Resist

Focused on the impact of the Musk-Trump onslaught on science and higher education from a retired physics professor.

Einstein on the Sidewalk

Lessons from a class three decades ago that may be still relevant to academic physics today

Sep 15, 2025

The Department of Energy Borrows a page from Bobby Kennedy Jr

Much like Kennedy's vaccine panel composed of anti-vaccine quacks, the "blue ribbon" panel assembled by Energy Secretary Chris Wright to assess climate change is made entirely of climate change 'skeptics' recycled from past execrable panels.

Daniel Cox

Jul 18, 2025

Golden State of Science

Action items to preserve the state of federally funded scientific research in the Golden State

Daniel Cox

Jun 05, 2025

Trump's Demolition of American Scientific Research

The proposed NSF, DOE, and NIH budgets are out. NSF and NIH get butchered, while DOE for unclear reasons remains relatively unscathed. All of it is horrific.

Daniel Cox

May 21, 2025

Science Activism Surges!

An overview of some grass roots (by scientists) activism and proposed (California) legislation

Daniel Cox

May 08, 2025

University Mutual Academic Defense Compact

The number of university faculties supporting a NATO-like "mutual academic defense compact" to protect against attacks by the Trump administration is growing. Whether university administrations will sign on is questionable.

Daniel Cox

Apr 28, 2025

Strength in Numbers

Perhaps the Trump Administration Didn't Count on This Much Legal Pushback

Daniel Cox

Apr 23, 2025

The Face of Trump's Assault on Academia

It's becoming clear that Chris Rufo, who led the assault on Critical Race Theory, is the leading architect of the attack on higher education.

Daniel Cox

Apr 15, 2025

Fascism is alive and well at the state level, too

Ohio's SB 1, signed into law by Gov. DeWine two weeks ago, is trying to do to state universities what the Trump administration is aiming for with the elite private universities: control over classroom speech.

Daniel Cox