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Category Archives: Academia
The rise of the “substackademic”
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
Problematic
“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
Max Weber and the Two Universities
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
Decoding Decoding The Gurus, Part Two
Part one. This decoding is a hard job because the podcast Decoding the Gurus (DTG) by academics Matt Browne and Chris Kavanagh is objectively impressive. Matt and Chris, however, seem unaware that they have their own subjective partisan left-wing hero … Continue reading
American Universities Began Asking For A Personal Statement Essay To Weed Out Jews
College admissions in America operate with the tools of the last century that were enacted to limit the admission of Jews. In most countries, admission to university is done on the basis of test scores, but American universities in the … Continue reading
The Last Intellectuals: American Culture In The Age Of Academe
Russell Jacoby writes in 2000: * A specter haunts American universities or, at least, its faculties: boredom. A generation of professors entered the universities in the middle and wake of the sixties, when campuses crackled with energy; today these teachers … Continue reading
The Critical Theory of Academia: A Companion to The Star Chamber of Stanford
This is a work in progress and the third of Rony Guldman’s trilogy. He writes: “I originally intended the content of this manuscript to form the second part of The Star Chamber of Stanford but later decided to make it … Continue reading
Decoding Decoding The Gurus
I love this center-left podcast by two center-left academics (Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Brown) decoding the new breed of secular gurus (such as Jordan Peterson, Ibram X. Kendi, Eric and Bret Weinstein, Joe Rogan) by examining their facts and logic. … Continue reading
The Star Chamber of Stanford: On the Secret Trial and Invisible Persecution of a Stanford Law Fellow
Read my review here. I’ve emailed every professor referenced in this new book by lawyer and philosopher Rony Guldmann with messages along these lines: I’ve been reading a hilarious new book… I’m trying to figure out for a blog post … Continue reading
The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (1998)
Here are some excerpts from this book sociologist Randall Collins: * The long-term tendency of an active intellectual community is to raise the level of abstraction and reflexivity. * Individuals who participate in IRs [interaction rituals] are filled with emotional … Continue reading