The Return of the Canon Wars
By refighting the Canon Wars, there is hope that we can chart a more productive course than the one we have inherited.
Katherine Kelaidis
· 7 min read
Education
A collection of 398 posts
The Incentives for Groupthink
What is groupthink? It is the powerful mechanism through which groups reinforce.
Neema Parvini
· 12 min read
Who Will the Evergreen Mob Target Next?
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.
Debra Soh
· 6 min read
The Stifling Uniformity of Literary Theory
Many universities and colleges currently advertise literary theory courses which purport to introduce students to a range of different approaches to literary texts.
Neema Parvini
· 11 min read
Training the Masculinity Out of Children
Research also suggests1 that ‘metrosexual’ men can be understood as those engaging in a sophisticated dynamic of traditionally masculine characteristics.
Elio Martino
· 7 min read
How the Science Wars Ruined the Mother of Anthropology
Both revered and despised for the image of humanity she presented to the world, and for her conclusions about the Samoan people, in particular.
Matthew Blackwell
· 17 min read
Academia's Consilience Crisis
Consilience makes the case for epistemological inter-relation, put into practice by the congregation of diverse fields of inquiry.
Phil Theofanos
· 9 min read
Lost Down Social Constructionism's Epistemic Rabbit-Hole
Where they have raised both eyebrows and tempers among social constructionism’s growing number of critics.
Kåre Fog
· 11 min read
In Social Research Fields, Conservatives Are the Most Underrepresented Group
The lack of ideological diversity seems to be vastly more pronounced in social research fields than underrepresentation in terms of gender, sexuality, and race.
Musa al-Gharbi
· 4 min read
The Privilege Paradox
Even this cursory glance reveals two important facts about the usage of the word ‘privilege’ today.
Samuel Biagetti
· 10 min read
The Psychology of Progressive Hostility
This sort of my-way-or-the-highway mentality is now spreading well beyond the urban university and into even remote communities.
Matthew Blackwell
· 11 min read
Incomprehension 501: Intro to Graduate School
My last book purge found me deciding the fate of Slavoj Žižek’s Tarrying With The Negative, a book I read in a class on Shakespeare and political theory.
S. A. Dance
· 9 min read
The Academic Mob and Its Fatal Toll
“Academic Mobbing, Or How To Become Campus Tormentors,” Eve Seguin wrote, “Mobbing is social murder and, by definition, people cannot survive their own murder.”
Brad Cran
· 12 min read
Damore, Diversity, and Disruption at PSU
Organizing a student event to discuss any topic — including diversity — should not be a safety hazard.
Andy Ngo
· 6 min read
The Evergreen Meltdown
Evergreen’s prognosis is guarded at best, but it might explain what ails higher education in general.
Mike Paros
· 6 min read