The first Marist Mindset List is set to drop Wednesday, August 21.

Marist College picked up the Mindset List after Beloit College dumped it a year ago for lack of alignment with the college’s “brand attributes.”

Marist College is home to the Marist Institute for Public Opinion and Marist Poll so one would hope they might incorporate some actual data into the list. We’ll find out soon whether they managed to do that this year.

This “sneak preview” featuring Tom McBride suggests more of the same. The list’s “launch,” McBride says, will be on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

After Marist took over the list, McBride stopped posting his strange video rants on the Mindset List Facebook page. However, two months ago he began posting new rants but with the same poor production values and paucity of views on a Mindset List Moments YouTube page. In one of them he claims, bizarrely, that James Buchanan was “asexual.”

You have assume that Marist is hoping McBride’s involvement won’t last much longer.

If anyone has any information on the details of the arrangement between Marist and Mindset List triumvirate, please send us a line.