Bald Men Fighting Over a Comb: Arguments About the Classical Tradition
Most of the praise comes only from Classics teachers, or others easily impressed by a thin veneer of learning.
Sandra Kotta
· 19 min read
Education
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Bald Men Fighting Over a Comb: Arguments About the Classical Tradition
The Culture Wars and Beyond is an exemplary study: thorough, balanced, judicious, elegantly written, and all the better for its notably even tone and scrupulous sense of fairness.
Sandra Kotta
· 20 min read
A Line in the Sand for Academic Philosophy
Tuvel was criticized for not citing enough black or transgender scholars. Such a complaint could be leveled at virtually any philosophy paper.
Oliver Traldi
· 10 min read
The Crucible of the Application Process
These alterations would ostensibly bolster my chances of being accepted to and receiving funds for graduate programs.
Dillon Bowen
· 14 min read
Companies Shed Degree Requirements to Promote Merit Over Qualifications
When companies demand more and more degrees for very basic jobs, they cut off access for unskilled workers to break into the job market.
Joshua Krook
· 4 min read
The De-Professionalization of the Academy
Just to be clear, most of my faculty colleagues are well-educated, bright, and dedicated teachers. Some are also worthy scholars or creative authors.
Alex Southwell
· 10 min read
Conservatives Aren't the Only Voices Silenced by Academia's Intellectual Orthodoxy
The problem isn’t simply one of political imbalance, an absence of parity between Left and Right voices, but the extent to which humanities departments have become politicized.
James Walker
· 5 min read
A Raft of Books
“Let’s not have any political correctness here. If characters can’t think and talk like people—if writers can’t—then what’s the point of literature?”
Ryan Blacketter
· 11 min read
Why British Academics are Guilty of Groupthink
But anti-Brexit academics no longer appear able to differentiate between their own personal investment in the EU and the progressive social values they also claim to uphold.
Paul A Taylor
· 4 min read
Methods Behind the Campus Madness
Then institutions of higher learning will again be a place for what they were originally meant, the exchange of ideas and verifiable knowledge.
Sumantra Maitra
· 7 min read
Sociology's Stagnation
The curricula of sociology departments are so deeply flawed that they will need to be revised from the ground up.
Brian Boutwell
· 11 min read
Negotiating Standpoints Outside the University Classroom
If universities made this negotiation route available to students as a matter of policy, campus activists won’t have to wave their signs and tread on the grass as their default action.
Daniel Tippens
· 6 min read
Make Expertise Great Again
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters is finally out this year.
Sumantra Maitra
· 7 min read
Stereotypes Can Hold Boys Back in School, Too
These expectations can work both ways: When researchers told children that boys and girls would perform the same, boys’ academic performance improved.
David Miller
· 5 min read
Diversity for the Sake of Democracy
Diversity is the celebration of individuality and nonconformity, and democracy is most precious when it allows three hundred million individuals to reach a compromise out of love for their country.
Carrie Pritt
· 4 min read