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No humanities curriculum has automatic, built-in moral or political results. A social justice-oriented curriculum could cause some students to recoil and become even more conservative or reactionary; a traditional curriculum
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The way people talk about "capitalism" is, perhaps unsurprisingly, not very clarifying. At times it seems to mean simply "having an economy at all," then it skips over to being
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In a Žižekian mode, I sometimes think that the problem with evangelicals is that they aren't authoritarian *enough*. There is no recognized authority that can say, "Okay, guys, this is
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I think we all agree that the moralistic arguments against student loan forgiveness are bullshit, as are the fake concerns about how "regressive" it would be. But I just had
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I think it was bad for the humanities when we all implicitly conceded that the cultural archives to which we had devoted our lives were just a disposable scratch-pad to
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Slavery was a world-historical crime unique in human history and uniquely severe and persistent in the United States. The Civil War was initiated by the South in order to maintain
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It's probably worth noting that there have been no significant attempts at vigilante justice against murderer-cops, nor is such a thing even really imaginable. By contrast, for a century or
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