so many questions
I have many questions — real, deep, sincere questions — about this. Does Katherine Dettwyler really believe that a...
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“major collegiate disorders”
A follow-up to yesterday’s post… Of course it’s possible to reach too far into the past to get...
getting context, and a grip
Several long quotations coming. Please read them in full. James Kirchik writes, Of the 100 or so students who...
Frederick Barbarossa won’t be around to save you
In the Boston Globe, Kumble R. Subbaswamy writes, More than 850 years ago, the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire,...
the defilement thesis, expanded
In a recent post I spoke of what we might call the Defiling of the Memes, and suggested that Paul Ricoeur’s work on...
on microaggressions and administrative power
Let’s try to put a few things together that need to be put together. First, read this post by Jonathan Haidt...
don’t just quit, quitpiece!
I think Ian Bogost is correct about the essential boringness of quitpieces — essays or articles or posts by former...
presentism
No surprises here, of course, but when you ask people who teach creative writing in American universities what books...
an imaginary student replies to Freddie deBoer
Freddie deBoer imagines a kind of universal trigger warning, perhaps to be issued to students on their arrival at...
an academic farce
Peter Conn is right about one thing: college accreditation is a mess. But his comments about religious colleges are...