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Category Archives: Academia
The New Academic Celebrity
There’s a decent, much-discussed piece in The Chronicle (“The New Academic Celebrity“) that discusses the increasing Kardashianization of public intellectuals (ala TED talks and the like.) Think (ironically) Stanley Fish, Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Sandel,l Cornel West, etc. In a famous … Continue reading
Working at the Intersection
Sometimes, life imitates parody. Here’s how a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education begins: As a critical theorist working at the intersection of Continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, and feminist and queer theory, I make observations about human life that … Continue reading
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Mr. Chairman
From the Ivy-worthy UNC/Chapel Hill: HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. – A former professor at the center of an academic scandal involving athletes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been charged with a felony, accused of receiving $12,000 in … Continue reading
Detail
From the hilariously leftist and pomo world of academia, as reported by the NYT: The philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, known for his wide-ranging and accessible writings on cosmopolitanism, identity and global ethics, will be leaving Princeton for New York University … Continue reading
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PoMo Article on Black Sexuality
Sometimes, reality is more absurd than parody. “Who’s Afraid of Black Sexuality?” is a Chronicle article chock full of standard-issue, postmodernist, race/class/gender language: Marlon M. Bailey rose to give a talk at a meeting this year to celebrate Ph.D programs … Continue reading
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Are You A Racist If You Own A Gun?
This one is great: Racism and guns go together. That’s the finding of an international study released Thursday that says the two are linked. More specifically, odds are greater that a racist white American also keeps a gun at home … Continue reading
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Academia
“Duke student after my speech last night incredulous at my assertion that half of the population will always be below average in IQ.” — recent tweet by Charles Murray
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Anti-Science Teabaggers
Prof Kahan surprises himself: A finding in a study on the relationship between science literacy and political ideology surprised the Yale professor behind it: Tea party members know more science than non-tea partiers. Yale law professor Dan Kahan posted on … Continue reading
The Professor & The Student
I refer to Thomas Nagel often in this blog, and his seminal “What Is It Like To Be A Bat? article singlehandedly launched the New Mysterians movement in philosophy of mind, but my absolute favorite New Mysterian philosopher is Colin … Continue reading
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Bring Back Existentialism
Before the Humanities became all-consumed with literary ‘theory’ and then become trapped, still so today, in a cesspool of politicized postmodernism (race/class/gender), genuine issues of life and death were the focus. In “Let’s Bring Back Existentialism“, Peter Lawler argues for … Continue reading
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