Monks in High Towers: A Plea to Our Fellow Academics
We should remember that the creation of knowledge is generally a positive sum game. When practitioners in one field make progress and gain insight, all fields stand to benefit.
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We should remember that the creation of knowledge is generally a positive sum game. When practitioners in one field make progress and gain insight, all fields stand to benefit.
There’s a solution, but it’s not one that most feminists want to hear.
To all who value academic freedom, tolerance, and human dignity, weaponized diversity should be as abhorrent as the Total University it supports.
To have a chance at solving our problems we must not condemn each other for openly stating our ignorance.
If the lessons of the past 50 years are to be learned, policymakers will need a much broader course of instruction than can be provided by human capital theory.
For every article published highlighting a case of students being taught this ideology, there are dozens of other instances that aren’t covered by the news.
The first thing to note in this context is that PTSD is extremely rare, even among trauma victims.
Overreliance on slides has contributed to the absurd belief that expecting and requiring students to read books, attend classes, take notes and do homework is unreasonable.