The Washington Examiner interviewed Prof. Jack Pitney about Gov. Ron DeSantis’s recent TV ad attacking Trump. “Here is the message: ‘Trump is stealing pages from the Biden-Pelosi playbook.’ Do the DeSantis people really think that they can convince Republicans that Trump is too much like Biden and Pelosi? That seems pretty unlikely.”

Prof. Henri Cole’s latest sonnet collection, “Gravity and Center” was reviewed in The New York Times.

“Each of Henri Cole’s sonnets is a little workshop of language,” the Times wrote. “Cole’s sonnet is a form both economical and maximal, which, through both artifice and resistance to artifice, feels and makes you feel, thinks and makes you think.”

Prof. Jack Pitney commented on a claim that the recent Nashville protest is comparable to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He stated that the two events in question were not the same due to the January 6 events involving “violence and death.”

In an interview with CNN, Prof. Esther Chung-Kim explained how a scene in Netflix’s new show Beef speaks to the Korean American Church experience, “One attractive feature about Asian American evangelicalism is that the focus is more on deemphasizing racial minority status and emphasizing more the primary identity as Christians. So this also explains some of the sociological benefits of joining ethnic-specific churches.”

Prof. Jack Pitney commented on the upcoming trial centered on former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll who is suing Donald Trump for battery. He explained that the case is unlikely to “change anything dramatically” in relation to elections, but it is “a meaningful small shift” that impacts our divided country.

In an interview, Prof. Hilary Appel said it would be “very difficult if nearly impossible” for Ukrainian forces to succeed in Crimea on military force alone.