In this uncertain time of global conflict, some professors believe it is time to teach students to reevaluate and deconstruct America’s real enemies—conservatives, science, democracy, and capitalism.
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Donor Intent Endangered
In the academic world, the subversion of grants and gifts remains a problem, even when the benefactors are alive and kicking.
Children of a Lesser Lessing
Believe it or not, the Nobel Prize authorities and the academic elite lionize a writer who denounces both communism and feminism. That’s because they honor her for the opinions that she held before she changed her mind.
Church and State Selectivity
While the “separation of Church and State” crowd has been noticeably mum on the opening of charter schools such as the Kahil Gibran Academy in Brooklyn, the efforts of other religions can still provoke their ire.
Chambers Farm To Open
A library featuring the personal
papers of anti-communist hero Whittaker Chambers will be opened on the site of
his farm.
The Joy Composition Club
College English professors are trying to teach students how to write when some of these same pupils haven’t read much.
Dickens Deconstructed
One of the unfortunate effects of the interdisciplinary approach to education is that it encourages English professors to regard themselves as astute on subjects on which they are clearly not, such as economics.
CINO Travel Advisory
Another religiously affiliated university trying to be diplomatic may be in danger of becoming Catholic in Name Only (CINO).
Composition without Writing
Among college English professors, the passing on of literary traditions and literacy has gone from avocation to afterthought to alien concept, as can be seen in the annual conventions of the Modern Language Association.
Brokeback University
Philadelphia is not just a place where Broadway shows go on out of town tryouts. When the Modern Language Association meets there, Ph.D. candidates test their theses there too.