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Category Archives: Academia
Challenges To Academic Freedom
Stephen Turner writes in this 2021 book: The present legal system produces an unequal conflict between academic freedom, which has only the most fragile and indirect legal basis, and employment law. The latter is backed by administrative law, which, in … Continue reading
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The Star Chamber of Stanford: On the Secret Trial and Invisible Persecution of a Stanford Law Fellow by Rony Guldmann
I asked AI: Please review, critique, analyze and assess for credibility this 2022 book by attorney-philosopher Rony Guldmann — The Star Chamber of Stanford. The antagonists in the book are the parents of Sam Bankman-Fried — Barbara Fried and Joseph … Continue reading
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Beliefs Are Like Possessions
When people most need to feel special, they are most likely to adopt special beliefs such as Holocaust denial or 9-11 truthism. Childless people are more likely to adopt exciting beliefs because their ordinary life does not provide sufficient excitement. … Continue reading
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Nathan Cofnas: ‘Podcast Bros and Brain Rot: The only thing worse than an expert is a non-expert’
One of the great things about psychotherapy is that you can get insights that end your petty obsessions. For example, after a year of therapy, in 1999, my therapist told me that the reason I was obsessed with writing about … Continue reading
Trump vs the Universities
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)
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”
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
“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
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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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
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