I’ve been writing online for more than 20 years at jackhassard.org, exploring the places where science, education, politics, and democracy meet.

I’m an Emeritus Professor of Science Education at Georgia State University, where I spent much of my career teaching, writing, and working with teachers and students. My work took me well beyond the university—to schools across the United States and, through the Global Thinking Project, into classrooms and communities in Russia and other countries. Those experiences strengthened my belief in inquiry, evidence, humanistic education, and the power of people learning from one another.

Then came 2016.

As Donald Trump moved from candidate to president, my writing increasingly turned toward American politics. I began documenting what I was seeing: attacks on democratic institutions, science and expertise, public education, immigrants, political opponents, and the norms that had long helped sustain constitutional government.

I kept writing.

Those years of blogging eventually became The Trump Files, published in 2022. The book brought together my reporting, research, and commentary into a sustained critique of the Trump presidency and the political movement surrounding it.

I’m still writing because the story isn’t over.

On Substack, I continue to follow American politics and democracy through the eyes of a science educator and longtime teacher. I’m interested not only in what is happening, but in how we know what we know—and what history, evidence, and education can teach us about what comes next.

My Substack is free. My blog is free.

I hope you’ll read, question, disagree, share—and join the conversation.