Category: Academia
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Camille Paglia on Free Speech and the Modern Campus
A rich, historically informed article. Excerpt: Let me give just one example of political correctness run amok in campus women’s studies in the U.S. In 1991, a veteran instructor in English and women’s studies at the Schuylkill campus of Pennsylvania State University raised objections to the presence in her classroom of a print of Francisco…
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An Exception to the Rule that University Admins are Cowards
Roger Kimball, Safe from "Safe Spaces": This is where things got interesting, and President Michael Drake came into his own. He sent osu Senior Vice President Jay Kasey as his ambassador to the protestors. Speaking in calm, measured tones (the video clip is widely available on the internet), Kasey explained that he was not there…
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Jason Riley, Conservative Black, Disinvited from Campus
For a long time now, leftist termites, aided and abetted by cowardly administrators and go-along-to-get-along faculty members, have been busy undermining the foundations of the West, including the universities. Here Jason Riley reports on an outrage that affected him personally. Excerpts: Nor is it merely classroom instruction that leftists tend to control. Liberal faculty and…
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Has Political Correctness Gone Too Far?
Apparently not for the cry bullies and cowardly administrators at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst: UMass-Amherst students this week threw a mass temper tantrum to derail a forum that challenged the speech police. “The Triggering: Has Political Correctness Gone Too Far?” featured three guests: American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, journalist Milo Yiannopoulos and…
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Mugged by a Philosopher
The Thinking Housewife: THE greatest academic gig is that of the black philosopher. Spout hackneyed and malicious political slogans and you will be treated as a paragon of wisdom. George Yancy is a professor of philosophy at Emory University. In addition to being a rising star in the field of “body politics, ” he specializes in Critical…
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Get Real, Bernie!
My only objection to the image below is to the filtered cigarette. Real men smoke unfiltered Camels.
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Conservatives in Academia
Virginia Postrel: A few days after the 2004 election, Gabriel Rossman went for a job interview with the UCLA sociology department. Rossman was finishing a doctorate at Princeton, and his research on how ownership affects mass-media content was a good fit for a school in the entertainment capital. He got the job as an assistant…
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PC Claims Another Victim
One good thing about leftists is that they eat their own. So here is a leftist professor who is attempting to confess her 'white privilege.' She mentions the word 'nigger.' She is not using it any more than I just used it: she is not applying it to anyone. She is talking about the word. …
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Bad Teachers and Lousy Colleagues: The Upside
If I had had outstanding teachers, perhaps I would not have been able to gain and sustain the self-confidence that saw me through. And if not for lousy colleagues I might not have been hired when I was pretty lousy too.
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The A. P. A. Statement on Bullying and Harrassment
The American Philosophical Association has issued a statement that condemns bullying and harrassment. Who could disagree? But the following paragraph needs a little more work: Abusive speech directed at philosophers is not limited to responses by the public to published op-eds. A look at some of the anonymous philosophy blogs also reveals a host of…
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The Latest Low in Liberal-Left Lunacy
Via Breitbart: Students at Lebanon Valley College (LVC) in Pennsylvania are demanding Lynch Memorial Hall on campus be renamed, due to the potential traces of racism associated with the word “lynch.” [. . .] Michael Schroeder, an associate professor of history, said about LVC, “We’re not an island but sometimes it feels like an island…
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From the Mailbag: Campus Madness
Dear Bill, I know you've been following the insane protests that have been occurring at places like Missouri, Yale, and Ithaca. I had wondered how long it would take for them to reach Rochester. Sure enough, they made it here two Fridays ago, culminating in students handing the university president a list of DEMANDS (as…
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Recognizing Microagressions and the Messages They Send
A remarkable document. Tell me what you think. To understand the Left you must understand that central to their worldview is the hermeneutics of suspicion which is essentially a diluted amalgam of themes from Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. Thus nothing has the plain meaning that it has; every meaning must be deconstructed so as to…
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Leftist Insanity Update
Every day brings further evidence that contemporary liberals have lost their minds. A yoga class has been cancelled at the University of Ottawa on the ground that participants are complicit in 'oppression' and 'cultural genocide.' By the way, we are talking about hatha yoga here which is essentially just stretching. So you might think that…
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So You’re Getting a Ph.D.?
Welcome to the worst job market in America. Extracts: As late as 1970, more than two-thirds of faculty positions at U.S. colleges and universities were tenure-line, but now the percentages are reversed, with 1 million out of the estimated 1.5 million Americans teaching college these days classified as “contingent” faculty, the overwhelming majority of them…