Rodney St Cloud Exclusive [upd] Jun 2026

Rodney St. Cloud is a pseudonym. His legal name is Dennis Ray Toland, a former philosophy lecturer who was dismissed from a small liberal arts college in Oregon in 2019. Contrary to rumors of a dramatic scandal, his dismissal was quiet: he refused to use the college’s mandatory course management software. “He argued that grading via an algorithm was a form of intellectual violence,” a former colleague told us, speaking on condition of anonymity. “He wasn't wrong. He was just… inconvenient.”

“That I’m not asking for sympathy. I’m asking for attention — the real kind. Watch what I do next, not what they said I did. And if you still don’t believe me? That’s fine. Just don’t pretend you know the whole story until you’ve heard this one.” rodney st cloud exclusive