What’s Wrong with the American Academy
A colleague of mine in the economics department once said, “when the price of bullshit is zero, demand is inelastic.
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A colleague of mine in the economics department once said, “when the price of bullshit is zero, demand is inelastic.
But the virtue of The Case Against Education is that Caplan synthesizes many lines of research that approach the question with different methods.
It’s true that being very smart and scoring very well on the SAT is the only way most people can have a chance of getting into an Ivy League school
The solution seemed to be clear: educate the public and they will accept the science.
Faculty in continental Europe already overwhelming lean left in the social sciences and humanities
The liberal-to-leftist makeup of the discipline significantly influences the questions historians ask, the answers that we privilege, and the ways we teach and engage with the public.
The idea of bringing traditional ways of knowing together with empirical data and science is important.
Postmodernism is devouring the liberal arts. Such a deeply entrenched cultural problem cannot be solved by top-down intervention.
Activism and ambition can conflict so that students must choose between writing what they think and getting the grades they want and need.
If it is permissible to link whiteness and depravity, why is it not permissible to link blackness and criminality?
The claim that intersectionality can be fully separated from radicalism and opposition to free speech remains unconvincing.
We also have our separate ‘facts,’ often the result of what different media outlets consider newsworthy.”
By refighting the Canon Wars, there is hope that we can chart a more productive course than the one we have inherited.
What is groupthink? It is the powerful mechanism through which groups reinforce.
An Evergreen professor of biology, Bret Weinstein, wrote an email in which he expressed opposition to the idea that self-segregation was a useful exercise.