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Apparently the centrist dream is a university where academic ideas can be banned by the state but racial slurs can't be complained about. *NB This is also the fascist dream.
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History often reveals the specificity and contingency of social, cultural, intellectual or political arrangements that appear natural or universal. At the same time, historical contextualization and comparison often undermine categorical
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Enjoy this slow-motion shell game, wherein the whiteness of the canon is obfuscated only so that it can be insisted upon as the only *safe* option... which is somehow also
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Maybe if you don't find the idea that "next gen" university education means basing courses on lectures recorded by long-deceased profs troubling -- whether legal or not -- your expectations
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When you cite a book to support a claim, don’t do thishttps://twitter.com/hitchcockian/status/1350098711934885892 Specifically: don’t make a specific quantitative claim and then cite a whole book (which may or may not
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A fear of books and a repellent personality are a pretty sad basis for a political worldview.https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/13/leftists-are-colonizing-red-towns-like-mine-and-local-republicans-are-clueless/#.YABcKoKaSF9.twitter As an avo
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Here is a thread on "bad Enlightenment takes" in the context of the culture war.This one is a few months old, but because it exemplifies a lot of problems with
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Some were surprised that culture-warriors who began by attacking humanities disciplines in the name of science ended up as Covid-deniers.But it only makes sense that people who want history without
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Quillette: in the intellectual tradition of CP Snow, we are trying to find a way to bridge humanities and sciencesAlso Quillette: studying science in social or historical context is the
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Now, you may or may not agree with the point the article and tweets make about gardening; you may be unable to get past their language. But it’s not really
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This is a good example of Quillette’s and the IDW’s style of engagement with ideas: rather than thinking, find the quickest way to a simplistic one-line dismissal, ideally putting a
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Something noticeable in current attacks on academia is that (besides professional culture warriors) they bring together a combination of people who've failed to get/keep TT jobs and people who've benefitted
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