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Identity Politics Has Nearly Destroyed the Humanities; Now It Is Threatening the Hard Sciences
This article by Heather MacDonald is a must-read! If you thought you could escape identity politics by going into the sciences, or possibly even into engineering, think again. The article’s opening paragraphs spell out clearly what is happening in scientific … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture, Higher Education Generally, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged affirmative action, Bret Weinstein, C. Wright Mills, Evergreen State, Griggs Supreme Court, Heather MacDonald, Identity Politics, National Association of Scholars, National Science Foundation, original civil rights vision, Patreon, power elite, STEM education, truth-telling, white male cultural constructs, white male social construct
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Is Higher Education Undergoing a Long-Term Structural Collapse?
Is higher education in the U.S., and almost surely in the West generally, undergoing a long-term structural collapse? The question sounds histrionic, perhaps even hysterical and would be treated as such in many (most?) mainstream academic circles. But if we … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Higher Education Generally, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged #MeToo feminism, Adjunct faculty, Black Lives Matter, black professors, corporatization, Frankfurt School, Griggs decision, Herbert Marcuse, higher education collapse, higher education decline, Kevin Carey, neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, neoliberalism neoconservatism, part-time faculty, political correctness, Powell Memo, Powell Memorandum, precarity, racial discrimination, student loan debt, student loan debt crisis, Udemy.com, why teachers leave, YouTube
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Does a Technology-Driven Civilization Need Liberal Arts Learning?
To say higher education in the U.S. is in poor shape may be the understatement of the century. Whether it is due to outrageous and still-rising tuition payments now made by undergraduates and students in professional programs who will graduate … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture, Higher Education Generally, Philosophy, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged adjunct crisis, bloated administrations, conservatism, conservative speakers disrupted, culture wars, foundations of morality, future of higher education, future of philosophy, higher education, higher education defunded, Identity Politics, indentured servitude, liberal arts, political economy of higher education, real education, Steven Yates, student loan debt, traditionalism, vocationalism
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Of Climate Change, Science, and Experts: A Meditation
[Author´s note: co-posted on NewsWithViews.com but has yet to appear there. I have added and deleted a number of lines here and there and in general tried to increase clarity wherever possible.] A few months ago, a friend of mine, his … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Books, Election 2016 and Aftermath, Higher Education Generally, Philosophy of Science, Political Economy
Tagged American stupidity, anomalism, anomaly hunting, Charles Fort, climate change, climate change denialism, climate change hoax, climate change online, Climategate, experts, how we lost our minds, John Cook climate change, Man-made Climate Change, nature of science, parallel institutions need for, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy of science, Thomas S. Kuhn
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Academia Embarrasses Itself Again: the Hypatia Affair
The last time I wrote a piece of this sort, an exposé of academic philosophers embarrassing themselves, it caused me some problems. I try to learn from my mistakes, and what I learned from that occasion could be set down … Continue reading
