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Category Archives: Academia
Leaving Academia: Loss Grief and Healing
Lisa Munro writes in 2017: I’ve been out of academia for two years, having finished my PhD in 2015. I think I’m finally on the road to healing. I often joke that leaving academia feels like the worst break up … Continue reading
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Beyond The Academic Ethic
Philosopher Stephen Turner published this essay in 2019: * the German academic system of the late nineteenth century, which became the model for the modern research university… * Harvard University, for the first three centuries of its existence, was essentially … Continue reading
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Academic Horror Stories
From the New York Review of Books: * Among the best known involves an adjunct at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh who taught French for twenty-five years, her salary never rising above $20,000, before dying nearly homeless in 2013 at the … Continue reading
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That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession
Here are some excerpts from this 1988 book: “Historical objectivity” is not a single idea, but rather a sprawling collection of assumptions, attitudes, aspirations, and antipathies. At best it is what the philosopher W. B. Gallie has called an “essentially … Continue reading
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Dumb & Dumber II
Comments at Steve Sailer: * I get the impression Mr. Sailer was making that point obliquely. He also said some sweet and flattering things about how campus Jews made life better for us all. Lots of spoonfuls of sugar to … Continue reading
Dumb & Dumber
Steve Sailer writes: Back in the 1960s, campus leftism was in part a product of the lifting of quotas on the number of high-IQ Jews admitted. Harvard dropped its quota on Jews in the mid-1950s, and Yale in 1965. Before … Continue reading
The Jewish Edge
Adults with post-secondary degrees (global) according to Pew: Jews 61% Christians 20% Unaff 16% Buddhists 12% Hindus 10% Muslims 8%
WP: Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges
Washington Post: U.S. applicants to elite schools are largely unaware of the growth of international enrollment and what it could mean for their chances, said Bruce Vinik, an admission consultant in Montgomery County, Md. He said the subject could draw … Continue reading
Andrew Gelman: What has happened down here is the winds have changed
Andrew Gelman writes: To understand Fiske’s attitude, it helps to realize how fast things have changed. As of five years ago—2011—the replication crisis was barely a cloud on the horizon. Here’s what I see as the timeline of important events: … Continue reading
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Campus PC: It’s the Dumb Students
Robert Weissberg writes: The Social Justice Warriors and thin-skinned “communities of color” among others will continue to throttle lively classroom conversations and any professor who insists that matters have improved, still risks his career. The reason for this dismal prognosis … Continue reading