Tag Archive 'Universities'
Bookworm on Jan 05 2010 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Anti-war, Barack Obama, Education, Identity politics, Leftist morality, Morality, Multiculturalism
I’m reading a very enjoyable novel right now that is completely tuned in to the way in which the Left operates, especially when it comes to the media and academia.
The writer is completely tuned into the name calling that substitutes for informed debate. For example, when the book’s protagonist, Paul, learns that Leftists starting [...]
Bookworm on Nov 20 2009 | Filed under: California, Education, Identity politics, Taxes
The UC regents voted for a steep increase in tuition. Some have pointed to the unedifying spectacle of whining middle class students taking to the streets to protest the tuition increase, since they prefer to have California’s working class, most of whom will not attend the school, bear the financial burden. Although I agree in [...]
Bookworm on Aug 01 2009 | Filed under: Education, Hollywood
I went to NBC’s site looking for something else entirely, and got waylaid by a link to Hollywood brainiacs. I found it somewhat interesting, at least initially. Before I begin, though, let me say that I’m absolutely certain a lot of the actors and actresses profiled are indeed really, really smart. Having said that, there [...]
Bookworm on Mar 11 2009 | Filed under: Education, GBLT
I would love to see the recession cut America’s top universities, which have become intellectually polluted institutions that have nothing to do with education. Heather MacDonald — in a larger article about how Yale, even as it tightens its belt panders more deeply to the LGBT community — sums up perfectly the expensive grievance culture [...]
Bookworm on May 06 2008 | Filed under: Education
If you suspected that many professors at America’s top universities view their students at passive receptacles for the professor’s propagandizing, you thought rightly. When students at Dartmouth broke this unspoken compact, one that is antithetical to the traditional idea of a university as a place where students learn logical, analysis, and the ability to [...]
Bookworm on Apr 16 2008 | Filed under: Bush Derangement Syndrome, Education
Yesterday, Drudge had a headline that said something along the lines of: “98% of historians judge Bush’s presidency a failure.” I didn’t bother to check out the article. It didn’t matter to me whether someone polled 10 historians or 1000. I still knew with pretty good certainty a few underlying facts: if they’re historians for [...]
Bookworm on Mar 04 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’ve got a project, and pretty much exhausted myself writing this morning’s post (too much thinking, dammit!), so I’ll just give you links to some stories that caught my eye today.
1. John Hawkin’s writes about five top conservative female bloggers and discusses how they face different challenges from their male peers (not that they’re whining, [...]
Bookworm on Mar 04 2008 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Education, Feminism, Women
If you haven’t already read Heather MacDonald’s debunking of the “Rape Epidemic” on college campuses, you must. The whole article is replete with gems such as this one:
The campus rape movement highlights the current condition of radical feminism, from its self-indulgent bathos to its embrace of ever more vulnerable female victimhood. But the movement [...]
