Category: Academia
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Against Academentia
This is a good article! Its actual title leaves something to be desired.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Death of the University
The universities have been under assault from the Left for decades, but now advanced A. I. has its destructive role to play. A recent article by James D. Walsh in New York Magazine, widely circulated among academics, reported that “just two months after OpenAI launched ChatGPT [in 2022], a survey of 1,000 college students found that nearly 90…
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Should Calvin University Divorce its Denomination?
This will interest our friend Trudy, a graduate of Calvin College.
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Academentia Update: Harvard and Hillsdale
We of the Coalition of the Sane and Reasonable are rejoicing at Trump's treatment of Harvard. Once a great institution at the very top of the academic world, it has become a sick woke joke and a haven for antisemites and destructive DEI nonsense. VERITAS (truth) remains emblazoned upon its seal, but truth, which has…
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The Editor as Besserwisser
We need editors, but too many an editor is a Besserwisser. The editorial know-it-all knows better than the author what he wants to say and how it ought to be said. At this point I hurl choice epithets. I offer a more measured response in The Paltry Mentality of the Copy Editor.
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Peak Academic Absurdity Unlocked
I hadn't known until now that Steven F. Hayward of Power Line was a Stack man. (HT: J.I.O) Don't conclude, however, that every academic is academented. I oppose the anti-intellectualism too often found among populists and conservatives just as strenuously as I oppose the pseudo-intellectualism of lunatic leftists.
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Kimball on Kolakowski on Marxism as a Bogus Form of Religion
I have argued time and again that Marxism is not a religion. But many have a burning need so to misunderstand it. What the great Kolakowski says below reinforces me in the correctness of my opinion. As for Fredric Jameson, whom Roger Kimball discusses in his Guilt of the Intellectuals, I haven't read him and…
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Victor Davis Hanson on the Higher Infantilization and its Cost
Is it not folly to go into deep debt to buy something wildly overpriced of little value? And does it not contribute to an unravelling of the moral fiber of the people for a morally obtuse grifter such as Joseph Biden to forgive debts freely incurred, thereby forcing sensible taxpayers to foot the bill? Here's…
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Historians Need Not Apply
At the intersection of academia and wokery lies academentia. I have one quibble with Hinderaker. He writes, But the phenomenon at work here–a huge cadre of well-educated people who think they are entitled to make good money, be treated with deference, and play a significant role in public life, but who in fact are not…
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On Relevance in Philosophy Education
Substack latest.
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Sabotage Anyone?
Should a state university add "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" to its curriculum? This is an undoubtedly interesting time to be alive. How could anyone be bored? Should I rename my Academia category, Academentia? Demented POTUS, demented polity. Madness spreads and the fish stinks from the head. Update (3:39 pm): More academentia at UCLA…
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More Plagiarism at Harvard
Christina Cross, Sherri Ann Charleston. How many decades will it take before Harvard regains its reputation? Will it ever? With a serial plagiarist as POTUS, what can you expect? The fish stinks from the head. The case for Trump grows ever stronger. Here it is made succinctly and devastatingly.
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America, You Don’t Understand Us Academics!
I am too busy now to comment on this self-serving piece, but it is not surprising that people who fill their bellies from some job or profession have no trouble finding reasons in justification of it. A vegetarian once asked a man who worked in a slaughter house whether he had any moral reservations about…
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The Racism of Reduced Expectations
To tolerate and excuse Harvard president Claudine Gay's plagiarism has been cited by some as an example of the so-called 'racism of reduced expectations' (RRE). For what you are then doing by your toleration and excusal is lowering the standard for blacks when, or rather on the assumption that, they are as capable as any…
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Academic Credentials
How important are they? Top o' the Stack.