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Category Archives: Academia
The War Against New Mysterian Philosophers
I’m not saying they’re innocent or guilty, or that they weren’t baited by ambitious females looking for a payday or to strike a blow to the patriarchy, but there seems to be an SJW War Against New Mysterian Philosophers! First … Continue reading
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Middlebury Mob Mayhem & Two Big Buts
Steve Sailer noted how the Middlebury Mob Mayhem incident didn’t make it into the NYT’s “This Week in Hate” column, just like the Berkelely Milo violence wasn’t (nor any other violence against conservative speakers). I guess that’s because the weekly … Continue reading
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3/6/17: JAPCAT
We have two JAPCAT entries today. In The American Scholar, William Deresiewicz aims at political correctness on university campuses (“On Political Correctness”): Let us eschew the familiar examples: the disinvited speakers, the Title IX tribunals, the safe zones stocked with … Continue reading
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This Sense of Exclusion
From an article in The New Humanist on the Derrida-Searle debates, back in the heady days when Postmodernism seemed unstoppable: Jacques Derrida, the third child of five, was born in Algeria, then still a French colony, to Sephardic Jewish parents. … Continue reading
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The Public Intellectual & The Dodo
In “Whatever happened to the public intellectual?” David Herman asks “Philosophy used to be a staple of television and the newspapers. Not any longer. So where did all the philosophers go?” Two of the better explanations discussed in the piece … Continue reading
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Tucker vs. UCONN Professor
Tucker reveals an angle (and polemical strategy) to white identitarianism I had never thought of, maybe you too. See if you can spot it. As Hunter Wallace notes: If we live in a “white supremacist” country, why is “racism” considered … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anti-White, Left
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The Doxing of Jorjani
Another day, another Alt Right person being doxed or otherwise persecuted for their beliefs. Inside Higher Ed has a piece on Jason Reza Jorjani, a humanities lecturer at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Editor-in-Chief of Arktos Media, one … Continue reading
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Sokal Affair: 20th Anniversary
It’s been 20 years since the infamous Sokal Affair, wherein Alan Sokal, an NYU physics professor, wrote a piece titled “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity” that was published in the pomo socialist journal Social Text … Continue reading
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Mark Lilla vs. Campus P.C.
Our latest installment of the JAPCAT phenom is “Campus Identity Politics Is Dooming Liberal Causes, a Professor Charges” by Evan Goldstein. The day after the presidential election, Mark Lilla had to get something off his chest. “I wrote in a … Continue reading
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Separatism & Discrimination at Alpha Epsilon Pi
The Daily Jewish Forward has a piece titled “Is a Jewish Fraternity Like AEPi Only for Jews?”, which begins: No one seemed to care that Eun Bae was Korean American and Christian. When the Ohio State University freshman started hanging … Continue reading