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Category Archives: Academia
What Then Shall We Do
The unfinished work of: Allan V. Horwitz Carl Schmitt Clinton Rossiter David Myers Marc B. Shapiro Paul Bloom Stephen P. Turner Yitzchok Adlerstein Yitzhak Etshalom
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The Empathy Myth: Literature, Status, and the American English Department
Teaching literature gets sold as expanding our empathy. But empathy did not evolve to reach strangers. It evolved to manage coalitions. When English professors claim their discipline makes students more ethical, they are making a resource argument dressed as a … Continue reading
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The Corpse Who Writes the Autopsy: How the American University Authors Its Own Decline
The mournful-American-university genre is not scholarship. It is a terminal signaling equilibrium, a compressed competition over the meaning of a failing institution, conducted under legacy pressure, before an audience that rewards emotionally calibrated alarm, through institutional channels that select for … Continue reading
The Convenience Machine: How Elite Academic Cultures Justify Themselves
Every advanced society faces the same problem. It needs institutions that claim to pursue truth, but it also needs those institutions to reproduce status hierarchies, allocate jobs, justify funding, and maintain legitimacy with the broader public. The beliefs that dominate … Continue reading
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The Two Regimes
The most misleading way to describe elite universities embedded in high-crime cities is to call them hypocritical. That framing assumes a single institution with inconsistent beliefs. What actually exists is a stable dual system with different jurisdictions, different audiences, and … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For The Leaders Of The Middle East Institute
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are working overtime in the Middle East Institute’s offices on N Street, the program rooms, the development strategy sessions, and the quiet briefings for Gulf donors and State Department officials right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of Imperial College London Now
Imperial College London leaders believe their institution’s singular focus on science, technology, engineering, medicine, and business, which distinguishes Imperial from the broader universities whose humanities and social science commitments dilute their scientific identity, represents a principled intellectual commitment to the … Continue reading
Ten Elite Academic Programs Working Overtime On The Iran War Now
With the U.S.-Israeli campaign now in its second month, these are the university centers and departments producing the most emergency panels, rapid-response papers, private briefings for policymakers, op-eds, media hits, and (in some cases) managing campus fallout. They’re the ones … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Academics In America Today
Peer review is the gold standard for distinguishing reliable knowledge from unreliable knowledge. This belief protects the guild’s gatekeeping authority while framing what is essentially a coalition credentialing system as an epistemic achievement. Academic freedom requires tenure, and tenure requires … Continue reading
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Video: ‘The Craft of Writing Effectively’
This Youtube video was produced by the University of Chicago Social Sciences: “Do you worry about the effectiveness of your writing style? As emerging scholars, perfecting the craft of writing is an essential component of developing as graduate students, and … Continue reading
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