Category Archives: Academia

Trump vs the Universities

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Luke Ford

I ask Grok: “Paint for me the most intense fears suffered currently by the leaders of America’s elite universities as they battle Trump. What are the keenest humiliations they are most eager to avoid?” Grok says: The leaders of America’s … Continue reading →

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Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation (1991)

Posted on March 8, 2025 by Luke Ford

Susanne Klingenstein wrote: Being a transnational philologist was for [Leo] Wiener‘s mind what being a farmer was for his body: it eased tension. And it rooted the self — in the soil and in humanity… He did not belong [at … Continue reading →

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The rise of the “substackademic”

Posted on December 4, 2024 by Luke Ford

Chris Bickerton writes: A successful academic entrepreneur must make themselves their primary focus. In an odd way, the academic entrepreneur is the realisation of Foucault’s call for a “cultivation of the self”. The constant curation of one’s status as a … Continue reading →

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Problematic

Posted on June 10, 2024 by Luke Ford

“Problematic” is a favorite word among academics but they feel insulted and retreat into silence when you ask them to describe their hero system that renders so much of reality “problematic.” According to the Merriam_Webster dictionary, the third meaning of … Continue reading →

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Max Weber and the Two Universities

Posted on June 1, 2024 by Luke Ford

Professor Stephen P. Turner published in January 2024: No sooner than the ink had begun to dry (or should we say the pixels stopped changing) on the publications written to celebrate the centennial of Weber’s ‘Science as a Profession and … Continue reading →

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