Andy Smarick

Get my new novel COMMUNITY DAY now. The tragic comedy about our time. amazon.com/Community-Day-…

I've been writing about CST and governing for a while now. I've been writing regularly about the dangers of AI for the last year. So you can imagine how excited I am about reading Magnifica Humanitas. I appreciate that this is a niche tweet.

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The Madness of Covid: Chapter 10 Describing all the things and letting the future decide what's important

"Though a few elite private universities get enormous attention, almost three–quarters of all undergraduates attend public institutions. Governors have the authority to reshape these schools." bit.ly/3QUwuyN

Harvard’s top GPA prize used to identify one or two students. Last year, it identified 55.

Read it here: governingright.substack.com/p/the-surprisi…

Did you know that there's been LESS turnover in the Republican conference of the US Senate during the decade-long Trump era than during the two preceding decades?

"The membership of the GOP conference has been less changed during the 10-year Trump era than either of the previous two decades." governingright.substack.com/p/the-surprisi…

"During this period, governors on the left and right demonstrated that education improvement could be marked by bipartisanship and workable fixes instead of partisan rancor. bit.ly/3QUwuyN

Only you can right this injustice. Buy it now. Show them. amazon.com/Community-Day-…

Where does COMMUNITY DAY rank among the 100 greatest novels of all time?? theguardian.com/books/ng-inter…

“Learning is seldom about swiftly generating a final product. It’s about the slow, arduous work necessary for getting to a final product.”

AI in the Classroom Is Our Most Senseless Education Experiment Yet via @NRO (paywall) nationalreview.com/2026/05/ai-in-… #edtech #GenAI #ailiteracy #aiready #aifluency #edpolicy @smarick

COMMUNITY DAY begins as an earnest comedy about the relationships and happenings in contemporary small-town America. By the end, it is a tragedy about the costs—mistrust, conspiracies, selfishness, loneliness, and violence—when community disappears. amazon.com/Community-Day-…

The state boards that oversee public universities are the linchpins of higher education reform. Governors control most of these appointments. Red-state Governors who install feckless seat-warmers instead of stalwart reformers are blowing it. Read @smarick in @CityJournal on how red-state Governors can rescue higher ed. city-journal.org/article/gop-go…

Fantastic piece on therapy gone wrong--making individuals brittle in personal life and in democratic life. thefp.com/p/therapy-cult…

Great stuff from @smarick in @CityJournal: "87 percent of students in public four-year institutions attend schools whose boards are controlled by governors. These boards can hire and fire university presidents and set policies on everything from tuition and academic programs to athletics and graduation requirements. Moreover, nearly two-thirds of these students reside in states won by Donald Trump in 2024." Red-state Governors who appoint milquetoast time-servers to their state board of education, instead of committed reformers, are dropping the ball. city-journal.org/article/gop-go…

"The telescope revolutionized our understanding of space, but it didn’t jeopardize students’ learning of physics. The microscope revolutionized our understanding of cells, but it didn’t jeopardize students’ learning of chemistry or biology. AI, as currently used, DOES jeopardize students’ capacity to read, write, calculate, study, and create." nationalreview.com/2026/05/ai-in-…