Category: Academia
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Rate My Professors
I just now came across this comment: PH112A Nov 16th, 2005 Very into Philosophy, too bad he's the only one in the class that is . . . good guy, but the subject is just so boring, therefore you do horrible. Related: Former Students Do You Really Want to Teach at a University?
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Jews, Muslims, Science and Technology
Which group has contributed more to science and technology? Jews or Muslims? And why? Question prompted by this: Today, Jewish and Israeli MIT students were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students that call themselves the CAA [Coalition Against Apartheid, apparently].
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Harvard Will Pay a Price . . .
. . . when its super-wealthy Jewish benefactors withhold their support. Mark my words. The most effective way to combat the preternaturally destructive Left is by refusing to fund them. For the common currency of human-all-too-human understanding is the lean green, the filthy lucre, money. Everyone, no matter how twisted, nihilistic, or demon-driven, understands it.…
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Why I will not Support my Alma Mater: An Open Letter
Top o' the Stack.
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The Professor-Student Non-Aggression Pact
Substack latest.
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The Left’s Destruction of the Universities
Said destruction is a special case of the Left's destruction of everything it touches. Here we read about a professor failing a student for refusing to condemn her Christian faith. This case is a few years old, but characteristic. Things are worse now. Since the Left has captured the Democrat Party in the USA, if…
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Why the English Department Died
A Quillette article. (HT: JIO) 'Institutional capture' by anti-civilizational wokesters is fait accompli and we are collapsing on all fronts. Imagine being a English professor facing the daunting task, not of Higher Education, but of Higher Remediation.
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Is Graduate School Really That Bad?
Top of the Stack.
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It Pays to Publish . . .
. . . but don't pay to publish. Leader of the Stack.
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Academentia in excelsis
DEI and the collapse of the universities. Substack latest.
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Do You Really Want to Teach at a University?
Substack latest. Do you want to feed the unhungry in a leftist seminary? Comments and replies: Tony: One of the best, and certainly the most concise, essays on the problem. The mild criticism when I was at NYU was that the universities were offering "higher skilling." Higher infantilization was right around the corner. Bill: Thanks,…
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Academentia in excelsis
It is fitting that a demented man should 'preside' over the decline and fall of our republic and in particular over the decline and fall of its once-great universities. No one other than Joey B among American pols could better represent a nation in steep decline by every measure, a nation that has lost the…
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Down with Tobacco, Up with Marijuana
Why down with the first (I allude to the menthol cigarette ban) and up with the second? Why the differential treatment and the misplaced moral enthusiasm? The locoweed I smoked with band members in the late '60s was tame stuff, poor in tetrahydrocannabinol as compared to the potent THC-rich product on the market today. Since…
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Not Everyone in Academe is a ‘Woke’ Coward
Some are displaying a bit of civil courage: We are faculty of the College of Science and Mathematics, and we are writing to you to express our extensive concerns about the first public draft of the Mission Statement and Vision Statement that was recently presented to the faculty. . . We believe this document is…
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Which is Worse?
A former colleague of mine published one lousy book, a teacher of mine, many.