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One pile after another: building a bullshit Wonderland

In the middle of my last post I promised a list of some of the bullshit I’ve come across in Durham-in-Wonderland (DIW). It’s only, what? three weeks later? not quite a month? Anyway, here it is, a collection that lends credence to Harry G. Frankfurt’s comment that the “normal habit of attending to the way […]

Also tagged bullshit, Duke lacrosse case, Duke University, Karla Holloway, KC Johnson, Kerry Haynie, Mark Anthony Neal, Richard Brodhead, Wahneema Lubiano
2008 08 28 Duke Lacrosse Case
Duke University Comments (20)

Alan Kors and the unbearable sadness of educating

It’s a culture-war commonplace that the Left has dumbed-down higher education with its namby-pamby political correctness, hostility to the Western canon, race- and gender-obsessed pseudo-scholarship, etc. What I’m finding, though, is that nothing dumbs down a professor like the culture war. Exhibit A is KC Johnson’s Durham-in-Wonderland (DIW), where a facade of PhD-quality analysis masks […]

Also tagged Alan Kors, culture war, Duke lacrosse, Duke University, intellectual diversity, KC Johnson, thefire.org
2008 05 20 Academia
Duke Lacrosse Case
Duke University
Teaching Comments (6)

Gossip and banter from all over

The criticism KC Johnson posts to Durham-in-Wonderland (DIW) can be a lot like gossip—a sanctimonious account of foolishness, outrage, and scandal. I guess it’s appropriate for it to circulate like gossip, too. Lately the hatchet job he did on the Social Text paper by Duke professors Robyn Wiegman, Wahneema Lubiano, and Michael Hardt (“In the […]

Also tagged culture war, Duke lacrosse, Duke University, KC Johnson
2008 05 17 Academia
Duke Lacrosse Case
Duke University Comments (2)

The latest adventures in Wonderland

Over the past few weeks I’ve been sticking my nose into web forums here and there, trying to generate some feedback for my recent posts about KC Johnson and his blog, Durham-in-Wonderland (DIW). No doubt I’ve been too pushy and opinionated about it—that’s always the temptation on the net. My bottom-line issue at the moment […]

Also tagged Duke lacrosse, Duke University, KC Johnson, Kerry Haynie, liestoppers
2008 05 01 Duke Lacrosse Case
Duke University Comments (7)