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Category Archives: Academia
CFP: (Un-)Boundedness: On Mobility and Belonging
It’s time for a little CFP humor. This one is so full of impenetrable language and pomo cliches — especially the liberal use of conspicuously-placed hyphens, bracket[s], and (odd) parentheses. It’s almost indistinguishable from something spit out by the Postmodern … Continue reading
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Jacques Derrida’s Life as an Algerian Jew
I just finished Kevin MacDonald’s remarkable The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements (1998). I’ll write a longer review in the future. MacDonald’s thesis is that, from the perspective of group … Continue reading
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CFP: Post-Black but not Post-Race. Got that?
It’s time for CFP, where we check-in to see what trendy claptrap our contemporary Humanitites professoriate are preoccupying themselves (and young college kids) with. Today’s installment: 50 Years after the Civil Rights Act: Post-Black but not Post-Race Event: 04/03/2014 – … Continue reading
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Diversity in the Classroom
Inés Hardoy & Pål Schøne. “Does the Clustering of Immigrant Peers Affect the School Performance of Natives?” Journal of Human Capital, Spring 2013, Pages 1-25. Abstract: We analyze whether the proportion of immigrant students affects the school performance of natives … Continue reading
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Food Desert Research Pt. 2
Alison Hope Alkona, Daniel Blockb, Kelly Moorec, Catherine Gillisc, Nicole DiNucciod, Noel Chavez. “Foodways of the urban poor.” Geoforum, August 2013, Pages 126-135. Abstract: In the past decade, progressive public health advocates and food justice activists have increasingly argued that … Continue reading
Food Desert Research
Lorraine R. Reitzel, Seann D. Regan, Nga Nguyen, Ellen K. Cromley, Larkin L. Strong, David W. Wetter, and Lorna H. McNeill. (2013). “Density and Proximity of Fast Food Restaurants and Body Mass Index Among African Americans.” American Journal of Public … Continue reading
23 Groups
The open letter that 23 ethnic student groups (and/or groups promoting other favored ‘identities’) at Harvard have written (referenced by Richwine in his recent NR piece) is a case study in politically-correct, ethnic warfare taking place against both whites and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Cultural Marxism, Political Correctness
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Within academia today, the Calls For Papers (CFP) in humanities areas are still as hilariously pomo as they were in the early ’90s. It’s still difficult to tell apart a real pomo abstract vs. something spit out by the Postmodern … Continue reading
Donald Kagan: “Democracy May Have Had Its Day”
80-year old Yale classics scholar Donald Kagan gave his ‘farewell’ lecture this past Thursday. He is of a generation that cherished the Western tradition: Universities, he proposed, are failing students and hurting American democracy. Curricula are “individualized, unfocused and scattered.” … Continue reading
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