Moscrop, David. "Jacobin Writer Jailed 5 Days for Criticizing Israel". Jacobin. 8 March, 2025.
Moscrop, writing in the radical left magazine Jacobin, cites Weinstein and Heather Heying's resignation "under pressure" as a prime example of 'censorious excess' by 'social liberalism'. Moscrop's short description is better than most while lacking context: he writes that their resignation followed their "questioning the race-based 'Day of Absence,”\' which urged white students and faculty to stay off campus." The NYT article he links to for more information is one of the better journalistic accounts, at least referencing the voluntary nature of The Day of Absence and the role of other issues. Moscrop's is the 2nd article this week to reference the Evergreen protests as emblematic of a 'wokeness' that is said to be responsible for the backlash we see embodied in MAGA and beyond today. Among publications that have some level of identification with the radical left, this may be the first that evinces a somewhat more balanced critical perspective on the protests: The nuanced reporting in the Socialist Worker was broadly sympathetic towards the protests, while Spiked mirrored the cruder attacks from the right.
Vedder, Richard. "The Anti-Woke Counterrevolution Begins". Minding the Campus. 5 March, 2025
Vedder connects the 2017 protests to a broader movement of "ultra-woke expressions" at the time, which he argues are now contributing to an "anti-woke" backlash, now exemplified by the ending of many DEI initiatives, attacks on administrative bloat in universities, and new limits on 'overhead' payments that have come with federal grants.
Leef, George. "Another Progressive Grasps the Truth about the Democratic Party". National Review. 29 August, 2024.
Leef recycles common misunderstandings and exaggerations about the flipped Day of Absence at Evergreen:
"Readers might remember the turmoil at Evergreen State College in Washington State back in 2017, when a white professor defied a demand by militant black students that all white people take a day off from campus . . . That professor was Bret Weinstein, a devoted social-justice advocate who could not see how depriving students of a day of learning could possibly do anything to improve the situation of blacks. "
Leef cites a Forbes article on the protests, but that article, which barely discusses the Day of Absence, is relatively accurate so far as it goes (although it states without evidence that "a safety threat forced [Weinstein] to teach his class in a public park)" .. Leef's incorrect understanding of the event must derive from elsewhere.
Sances, J. Mitchell. "My Decision to Leave Academia". California Globe. 16 May, 2024
In an opinion piece in the rightwing news site California Globe, Sances writes that student protestors threatened Weinstein's life. There is no evidence for this, and so far as The Bibliographer knows, Weinstein has never claimed this.
Pinsky, Drew. "Bret Weinstein: Unprotected US Border Is Creating A Humanitarian Crisis At Darien Gap, As “Military Age” Men Disguised As Refugees Enter and Disappear" Ask Dr. Drew. 5 March, 2024.
Evergreen protests are discussed beginning at about the one hour mark.
Singal, Jesse. "Bret Weinstein Sure Has A Lot Of Theories" Singal-minded. 22 February, 2024
Brief mention of Evergreen, but mostly a critical summary of relatively recent claims that Weinstein has made having to do with covid vaccines, immigration, HIV, insinuation of murder, and a hypothesis that "That the Chinese one-child policy is a lineage adaptation to generate a conquering army of males that can be sent to the U.S. and become a fifth column in the military, replacing the independent-minded and principled soldiers who lost their jobs for refusing to get vaccines"
Sexton, John. "Teacher Critical of 'Woke Kindergarten' Training Gets Suspended". Hot Air. 10 February, 2024.
The last paragraph reminisces about Weinstein’s first appearance on Tucker Carlson at the end of the week of the Evergreen-protests.