Category Archives: Education

Don’t Go To College, Create Your Own For $4,000

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: One of the most fascinating spectacles of 2015 was the hilarious and horrifying student protests across American universities. The Red Guard hysteria spread from one campus to another with a voraciousness that would make the Bubonic plague jealous: Mizzou, … Continue reading →

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Listing Books: Anti-Modernism

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: It’s funny how after over a century of a near-stranglehold on elite sensibilities, modernism refuses to give an inch in the art world. Whether in novels, gallery art, architecture, fashion, or music, the implicit (or even at times, … Continue reading →

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The Real Problem of Sexual Assault on Campus?

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Fenster

Fenster writes: The conservative Jewish publication Commentary has an article running here on the “real problem” with sexual assault on campus.  It’s a neocon mag with something of a Victorian scold temperament on cultural matters so while the readership here, … Continue reading →

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Triggers Again

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Thankfully, the trigger warning idea is getting some strong pushback.  The faculty at American University has strongly endorsed free speech on campus.  Other prestige colleges, like Purdue, are following the lead of the University of Chicago in taking … Continue reading →

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Tempest in a Teapot?

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Fenster

Fenster writes: ere is a video on the subject of tea.  Oh, and sex, too, since they go together like love and marriage.  Check it out.

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Free College?

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Perhaps as punishment for having been a manager for so long, or maybe simply as a form of cosmic social justice, I find myself at a relatively advanced age a union member.  I got to be a faculty … Continue reading →

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Delayed Reaction X 2

Posted on September 17, 2015 by Fenster

Fenster writes: The Boston Globe front page tells two tales that, to me at least, reveal something about delayed reactions on the part of institutions. People are creatures of habit, and prone to both cognitive error and poor judgment of … Continue reading →

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More on Triggers

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Fenster

Fenster writes: I wrote about campus trigger warnings here.  The subject has staying power, fascinatin’ some, amusing others, outraging even more and bringing out the inner hero in all too many. There’s that article in The Atlantic by psychologist Jonathan … Continue reading →

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TNR on Trigger Warnings X 3

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Not content to let the matter rest after one go at the subject of trigger warnings, The New Republic has now published/posted three articles on the subject in less than a week.  The different approaches to the topic … Continue reading →

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“Cultural Literacy for Religion”

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: I enjoyed Mark Berkson’s hyper-basic (one-half to four lectures per major religion) Great Courses series very much. My beefs with it first, but only because complaining is so much more fun and easy than praising. It wasn’t the anthropological lecture … Continue reading →

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