Nolan Higdon is a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. Higdon has authored numerous books including United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It) (2019); The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education (2020); Surveillance Education: Navigating the conspicuous absence of privacy in schools (2025); and MAGAcademy: How Corporatism Paved the Way for the Hostile Takeover of Higher Ed (2026).