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Category Archives: Higher Education Generally
From Affirmative Action to Cancel Culture: Americans, You Were Warned
Slightly over 30 years ago, some of us warned anyone who would listen that the political correctness then emerging was dangerous and would spread to every institution in the country if it was not opposed. We were ignored, or called racists. Now, everything we predicted has happened, and we find not just historical monuments but history itself being canceled little by little Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture, Higher Education Generally, Language, Media, Political Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged affirmative action, antifa, Bakke decision, Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter Marxism, cancel culture, Christina Hoff Sommers, Civil Wrongs, feminism and Marxism, gender feminism, George Soros, globalism, Griggs decision, political correctness, post-truth, race realism
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Thomas Sowell Revisited: Constrained versus Unconstrained Visions
Back in 1987 Thomas Sowell published his important book A Conflict of Visions which distinguished constrained from unconstrained visions. With the unconstrained vision of the radical far-left in evidence everywhere in today’s “cancel culture,” never has the time been better for a rediscovery of this important work. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Culture, Higher Education Generally, Political Economy, Political Philosophy
Tagged A Conflict of Visions, affirmative action, antifa, Black Lives Matter, cancel culture, constrained vs unconstrained visions, liberal welfare state, systemic racism, Thomas Sowell, welfare state, white privilege
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A Case for Collapse Studies
A Case for Collapse Studies: we have Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and so on. Given the times we are now living in, why not Collapse Studies. Collapse is a process, not a singular event such as a major economic crash or a pandemic. Ours is underway. Can we turn things around in time? What does history teach us about collapse? Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture, Higher Education Generally, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged Age of Decadence, collapse, collapse and philosophy, Collapse of Complex Societies}, collapse studies, Comte, Dmitry Orlov, Glubb Pasha, Jared Diamond Collapse, John Bagot Glubb, Joseph A Tainter, Law of Three Stages, philosophy and collapse, stages of collapse, The Fate of Empires, The Saker, theory of collapse
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The West’s Ongoing Collapse at the Hands of Identity Politics and Neoliberal Ideology: 2019 Update
The free fall of contemporary academia into speech & thought totalitarianism continued … & likely to progress further given the unwillingness of those with resources to use them to oppose this ongoing juggernaut. Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture, Higher Education Generally, Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged basket of deplorables, Bret Weinstein, collapse, comfort college, Donald Trump, Evergreen State, Identity Politics, National Association of Scholars, Neoliberalism, political correctness, rural whites, Steven B Gerrard, Trump supporters, white population decline, Williams College
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The Deep Establishment
In the title of his recent Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) former Greek foreign minister Yanis Varoufakis introduces this phrase: The Deep Establishment. I like it! The … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Higher Education Generally, Media, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged Adults in the Room, Big Pharma, big tech, Carroll Quigley, central banks, Conspiracy Theories, David Rockefeller Sr, Deep Establishment, Deep State, fake news, military-security complex, new world order, privished, The Deep Establishment, The Deep State, the one percent, Tragedy and Hope, udo ulfkotte, world government movement, Yanis Varoufakis, Zbigniew Brzezinsky
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“Philosophy in Three & a Half Years”
Seen by accident, “ganked” off Colin McGinn’s blog this morning, this comment caught my eye. Writing back in April 2017 under the title “Philosophy in Five Years” he predicted: I think the field will be a complete shambles. It’s already … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Election 2016 and Aftermath, Higher Education Generally, Philosophy, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged academic philosophy, academic philosophy criticism, Colin McGinn, future of philosophy, Identity Politics, philosophy in five years, professional philosophy, tribalism
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“Should I Pursue a Doctorate in Philosophy These Days?”
Should you even consider getting a doctorate and going into academic philosophy today? Even if you find the subject endlessly fascinating, and you have talent for it? The question comes up occasionally on forums. Someone I am “friends” with on … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Higher Education Generally, Philosophy, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged academia in decline, academic philosophy, academic politics, Adjunct faculty, adjunctification of academia, bullshit jobs, conservatives in academia, doctorate in philosophy, education in decline, Hypatia controversy, marginalized groups philosophy, Neoliberalism, neoliberalism academia, PhD in philosophy, Philosophy, philosophy blog, pursue a doctorate, pursue a PhD, Rebecca Tuvel, social media addiction, Tuvel controversy
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“Anti-Intellectualism and How Fascism Works”: A Comment
I followed the link from here to IHE’s “Anti-Intellectualism and How Fascism Works,” an interview with Jason Stanley (Yale) who has authored a book entitled How Fascism Works. I’d been thinking of posting a comment, but discovered that the comments thread … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Books, Election 2016 and Aftermath, Higher Education Generally
Tagged anti-intellectualism, dominant narratives, Donald Trump, Donald Trump supporters, elitism suspicion, Fascism, How Fascism Works, Inside Higher Education, Jason Stanley, Koch Brothers, university business model
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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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Lost Generation Philosopher 