How to Be an Effective Teacher in a Polarized Environment?

In some states right now, we're having law laws being passed about teachers that don't just hint of McCarthyism but are more extreme than many of the kinds of book bandings and rule setting that happened under McCarthyism. So I have no single advice because I'm extremely respectful terrified even of what it would mean to teach in an environment like that. The last time there was a culture war is way long ago when I first started where I had people being paid to come in and my classes and take notes on my on my classes and report me. This is this was like at mission when I taught at Michigan State as an assistant professor back in like the 80s. We're not in