Category: Academia
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Two Excellent Substack Articles
Keith Burgess-Jackson, The Abortion Pendulum Michael Robillard, How I Left Academia, or, How Academia Left Me
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Ex-Leftist Tells All
I have mentioned Michael Rectenwald (yes, that is how he spells his name) here and here. Tom Woods today tells the story of Rectenwald's move from Marx to Mises. I thank Tony Flood for the link. Michael Rectenwald, formerly a professor at New York University, spent his life as a leftist — a self-described Marxist,…
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“Not Hung Up on the Completion Thing”
In grad school I knew people who fit the above description. I used to joke about them ending up graduate student emeriti. Desultory and undisciplined, and allowed to take incompletes in their courses, they took them in spades. And so the above line from The Big Chill (1983) stuck with me. William Hurt has died…
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The Erasure of History at the University of Leicester
Another incident in the suicide of the West. And in England of all places. The battle appears to be lost in the mother country and in the rest of the Anglosphere with the exception of the United States of America. Here is where the West will make its last stand, or else begin to turn…
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Why I Will not Support my Alma Mater: An Open Letter
2 November 2021 Cheryl Mott Smith Executive Director Gift Planning Loyola Marymount University cheryl.smith@lmu.edu Dear Cheryl Mott Smith, I am an LMU graduate, class of '72. I am now in a position to make substantial monetary contributions to causes I deem worthy. LMU will not be on my list. As a classical…
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Not All Academic Philosophers are Leftists!
Dissident Philosophers Voices Against the Political Current of the Academy EDITED BY T. ALLAN HILLMAN AND TULLY BORLAND The book consists of sixteen essays (and an introduction) from prominent philosophers who are at odds with the predominant political trend(s) of academic philosophy, political trend(s) primarily associated with leftism. Some of these philosophers identify explicitly with the…
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Facebook Latest: Princeton Drops Greek and Latin Requirement for Classics Degree
Here I've been saying it for years: A 'LIBERAL' IS ONE WHO HAS NEVER MET A STANDARD HE DIDN'T WANT TO ERODE. I suppose it is all in pursuit of that beautiful thing they call 'equity,' that is, equality of result or outcome. Mathematics is called 'racist' because blacks as a group are not good…
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It Pays to Publish, but Don’t Pay to Publish
This came over the transom a while ago: Dear Colleague, British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science (ISSN: 2278-0998) is an OPEN peer-reviewed INTERNATIONAL journal. We offer both Online publication as well as Hard copy options. Article Processing Charge is only 100 USD as per present offer. This journal is now publishing Volume 10. Only 100 semolians? …
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Do I Miss Teaching?
I am enjoying classroom teaching quite a bit now that I no longer do it. With some things it is not the doing of it that we like so much as the having done it. One day in class I carefully explained the abbreviation ‘iff’ often employed by philosophers and mathematicians to avoid writing ‘if…
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On the Academentia Front: You Have to Read This
Bari Weiss: If you don’t know about Brearley, it’s a private all-girls school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It costs $54,000 a year and prospective families apparently have to take an “anti-racism pledge” to be considered for admission. (In the course of my reporting for this piece I spoke to a few Brearley parents.) Gutmann…
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In Praise of a Lowly Adjunct
The entry below was written on 18 May 2009 and posted the same day. I had meant to send it to Dr. Loretta Morris, Richard's widow, but couldn't find her e-mail address. The other day I discovered her obituary. So here is another case of too late again. …………………………………. The best undergraduate philosophy teacher I…
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My PhilPapers and PhilPeople Pages
I have been hard at work sprucing up these pages, adding content and links for the download of some of my papers, and correcting errors. I still have a lot of work to do. Take a gander if you care to. Most of my reviews are substantial review articles, not book reports. There are a…
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The Joshua Hochschild Affair
The Decline of the West proceeds apace as leftists infiltrate all of our institutions. The universities, for example, have devolved into leftist seminaries in which groupthink reigns and the traditional purposes of the university have been forgotten. Large numbers of contemporary collegians seem to have no appreciation of the classical values of open inquiry and…