{"id":5260,"date":"2017-09-07T04:39:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T04:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/07\/the-decline-of-the-west-proceeds-apace-2\/"},"modified":"2017-09-07T04:39:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T04:39:41","slug":"the-decline-of-the-west-proceeds-apace-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/07\/the-decline-of-the-west-proceeds-apace-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decline of the West Proceeds Apace: Reed College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I arise from a blissful session on the black mat, 3:10 &#8211; 4:00 AM, only to log on and <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2017\/09\/06\/western-civilization-holdout\">find<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Under pressure from student protesters, Reed College in Portland, Oregon is considering whether or not to continue requiring freshmen to take a Western civilization course.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Once again, abdication of authority on the part of university admins. There is no coward like a university administrator. May they be treated rudely by the barbarians they enable. &#0160;Suggestion to the thugs: take a page from China&#39;s Cultural Revolution and force the admins and profs to clean toilets.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arise from a blissful session on the black mat, 3:10 &#8211; 4:00 AM, only to log on and find: Under pressure from student protesters, Reed College in Portland, Oregon is considering whether or not to continue requiring freshmen to take a Western civilization course. Once again, abdication of authority on the part of university &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/07\/the-decline-of-the-west-proceeds-apace-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Decline of the West Proceeds Apace: Reed College&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}