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Stupid conservative tricks

Back in 2004 the Duke Conservative Union (DCU) looked up the political party affiliation of 178 Duke faculty members in the humanities and then took out an ad in the Duke Chronicle announcing that the vast majority were registered Democrats. Only 8 were registered Republicans. A day later the paper ran a lengthy piece with […]

Also tagged Alan Kors, culture war, Duke lacrosse, Duke University, Erin O'Connor, intellectual diversity, KC Johnson, Michael Gustafson, stupid conservative tricks
2008 07 18 Academia
Duke Lacrosse Case
Duke University Comments (25)

The trouble with tribalism

The word of the day is “tribalism.” I’ve spent quite a bit of time in Kenya, where there’s no way to avoid the word—certainly not after the post-election violence at the beginning of this year. In a New York Times op-ed a few months ago, Roger Cohen takes the idea of tribalism on a whirlwind […]

Also tagged Alan Kors, Barack Obama, culture war, Duke lacrosse, Duke University, Erin O'Connor, KC Johnson, thefire.org, tribalism
2008 06 11 Academia
Duke Lacrosse Case
Duke University Comments (7)