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Category Archives: Academia
Are Ghettos “Safe Spaces” for Blacks?
From The College Fix: California State University Los Angeles recently rolled out segregated housing for black students. The arrangement comes roughly nine months after the university’s Black Student Union issued a set of demands in response to what its members … Continue reading
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U-Chicago vs. Safe Spaces
This is good development. The University of Chicago has issued a letter to all its incoming freshman, part of which reads: Welcome and congratulations on your acceptance to the college at the University of Chicago. Earning a place in our … Continue reading
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The New Yorker: Martha Nussbaum
In The New Yorker, Rachel Aviv (ahem) has a large profile on the incredibly prodigous, but hopelessly liberal, moral philosopher Martha Nussbaum. I’ve read some of her literary criticism and once, about 20 yrs ago, attended an informal lecture of … Continue reading
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Postmodern Parodies – Pt. 4,192
Here is the opening of “Michel Houellebecq: The Ecstasy of Disgust”, by one Nancy Huston, writing in Salmagundi, No. 152 (Fall 2006). Needless to say, she’s not a fan of MH: By way of an introduction, let me tell you … Continue reading
Lack of ‘Diversity’ in Philosophy
Peter Levine (ahem) bemoans the lack of diversity in philosophy: Philosophy is a remarkably un-diverse discipline. Compared with other scholars who read, interpret and assign texts, philosophers in the United States typically choose a much higher percentage of their sources … Continue reading
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Jacobs: JAPCAT
In National Affairs, the latest JAPCAT entry is ‘Renewing the University’ by Alan Jacobs, professor of the humanities at Baylor University: For the past several years, American universities have been buzzing with protests and counter-protests, charges and counter-charges. These have … Continue reading
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Ring the Butler
As I’ve noted before, oftentimes it’s difficult to tell apart a real pomo article vs. something spit out by the Postmodern Generator (simply refresh the page for a new pomo abstract.) NY Mag has a profile of Judith Butler, the “radical theorist … Continue reading
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Paglia on PC’s Origins
In her own inimitable and highly erudite style, Camille Paglia opines on the P.C. menace across campuses, focusing on the decades-long complacency of the professoriate as a contributing factor (“Free Speech & The Modern Campus”). What is political correctness? As … Continue reading
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Harvard’s Eugenics Era
In Harvard Magazine, Adam Cohen writes of Harvard’s awful, racist, legacy and the prominent role progressives of all stripes played in working with the awful, racist movement’s assumptions (“Harvard’s Eugenics Era”): In August 1912, Harvard president emeritus Charles William Eliot … Continue reading
Raising My Hand
Campus P.C. overreach outdoes itself every day, making instances of increasingly indistinguishable from The Onion. When, o’ when, will this bubble finally pop? From The Telegraph: A university student was threatened with being thrown out of a meeting after being … Continue reading
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