conversation and equality
When I spoke at Duke a couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to visit with some of the students of Walter...
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“major collegiate disorders”
A follow-up to yesterday’s post… Of course it’s possible to reach too far into the past to get...
getting context, and a grip
Several long quotations coming. Please read them in full. James Kirchik writes, Of the 100 or so students who...
on Social Justice U
Jonathan Haidt explains “Why Universities Must Choose One Telos: Truth or Social Justice.” When my friend Chad...
Kathleen Fitzpatrick and “generous thinking”
As I’ve mentioned before, I have been working with colleagues for some time now on a document about the future of the...
the defilement thesis, expanded
In a recent post I spoke of what we might call the Defiling of the Memes, and suggested that Paul Ricoeur’s work on...
two visions of higher education?
Kwame Anthony Appiah on the two visions of American higher education: One vision focuses on how college can be useful...
an imaginary student replies to Freddie deBoer
Freddie deBoer imagines a kind of universal trigger warning, perhaps to be issued to students on their arrival at...
the humanities and the university
A few years ago, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences commissioned a report on the place of the humanities and...
think locally, act globally
I was drafting this post before Freddie deBoer’s recent post on the subject, so this isn’t really a response to...