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Academic intolerance

• 11.22.07
  Liberal creationism
  Academic intolerance (0)

  Slate has an article by William Saletan on the topic of racial differences in intelligence -- the same topic that cost James Watson his job.  He argues that liberals are to this topic as Christians are (or were) to evolution.    That section is titled "Liberal Creationism." The comment section has some fascinating debate which demonstrates that Saletan has a point.    It was interesting how some debaters criticized Saletan saying there is no such thing as race, it's all a social construct of some sort.  Someone on the other side responded that the same people who deny there is ...
  
  
• 10.13.07
  Where to give your millions
  Academic intolerance, First Amendment (0)

  Naomi Schaefer Riley has an article at the WSJ about how rich people have trouble giving money to universities. Well, the universities will gladly take the money, but they are not willing to use it to fund educational programs that the leftwing establishment types don't like. Example: The Robertson family at Princeton has not been so lucky. In 1961, Charles and Marie Robertson (an heiress to the A&P supermarket fortune), donated $35 million to the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University to prepare students for careers in government service. The Robertsons' descendants now claim that the university has ...
  
  
• 10.11.07
  Henninger caught the wrong Fish?
  Academic intolerance, First Amendment (0)

  I hate being right so much of the time, like when I refer to Academic Intolerance, or when I say there are no more liberals (except for Nat Hentoff) because they've all become leftwing fascists. Or when I point out how I'll end my days in one of Hillary's internment camps. I hate it when she shows herself more and more to be the kind of person to prove me right. I'd rather be mistaken and be laughed at for being overly paranoid. So it was rather spooky to read Daniel Henninger's column ...
  
  
• 09.19.07
  Save the world on your own time
  Academic intolerance (0)

  From the History News Network: Tony Judt: Notes the downside to multicultural studies The historian Tony Judt, a self-described “old leftist” and the director of the Remarque Institute at N.Y.U., which examines Europe and European-American relations, said undergraduates often arrive unprepared from high school and seeking courses “in what we might have thought of as the old-fashioned approach” — broad surveys. But many young professors aren’t interested in teaching outside their narrow specialties, nor are they generally prepared to do so. And colleges are loath to reinstate the core curriculums they abandoned in the ’60s. “Because we lack cultural self-confidence, ...
  
  
• 09.13.07
  Bought and paid for
  Academic intolerance, First Amendment, Welfare-police state (0)

  I had thought it would come to this eventually. I didn't realize it was already here as a matter of official policy, and has been here for ten years already. Here is John Leo in a column at townhall.com In 1997, the National Association of Social Work (NASW) altered its ethics code, ruling that all social workers must promote social justice "from local to global level." This call for mandatory advocacy raised the question: what kind of political action did the highly liberal field of social work have in mind? The answer wasn't long in coming. The Council on Social ...
  
  
• 06.16.07
  Academic Intolerance
  Academic intolerance (1)

  Back in the very early 1980s I started a newspaper clipping file under the subject line "Academic Intolerance." At the time it seemed ironic to find occasional examples of intolerance in institutions that were supposedly devoted to freedom of speech and inquiry. Since then the quantity and ferocity of the intolerance have increased to the point where the term no longer sounds oxymoronic. I hadn't known about this one, though, until I read Fred Thompson's column today: The head of Marquette's philosophy department apparently didn't get it. He took down Barry's words and issued a statement that included the ...