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“That the discipline of philosophy trains students in highly transferable skills is evidenced by the fact that philosophy majors perform exceptionally well on the LSAT, GMAT, and GRE.”
Most modernists could be classified as centrists (either left or right-leaning), classical liberals and libertarians.
Most of the praise comes only from Classics teachers, or others easily impressed by a thin veneer of learning.
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.
Tuvel was criticized for not citing enough black or transgender scholars. Such a complaint could be leveled at virtually any philosophy paper.
These alterations would ostensibly bolster my chances of being accepted to and receiving funds for graduate programs.
When companies demand more and more degrees for very basic jobs, they cut off access for unskilled workers to break into the job market.
Just to be clear, most of my faculty colleagues are well-educated, bright, and dedicated teachers. Some are also worthy scholars or creative authors.
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.
“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?”
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.
Then institutions of higher learning will again be a place for what they were originally meant, the exchange of ideas and verifiable knowledge.
The curricula of sociology departments are so deeply flawed that they will need to be revised from the ground up.
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.
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters is finally out this year.