For some reason a few days ago my blog came to the attention of the Liestoppers forum. The referrer links prompted me to take a look at their new digs for the first time since the old forum imploded a couple months ago. Those forums were a copious record of the grim and wacky world […]
Tagged Duke lacrosse, Duke University, KC Johnson, liestoppers, Robert Perkinson, William AndersonA few weeks ago I wrote about Tim Tyson’s answers to a reporter’s questions about the lacrosse case, and about KC Johnson’s response (the interview with Tyson, originally on a News & Observer blog, made it into print a few days later). Among other things I was disappointed that Tyson wasn’t willing to think more […]
Tagged Duke lacrosse, Duke University, KC Johnson, Tim TysonThe 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 […]
Tagged Alan Kors, Barack Obama, culture war, Duke lacrosse, Duke University, Erin O'Connor, KC Johnson, thefire.org, tribalismIt’s interesting to see how bits of news reverberate through the blogosphere. Thanks to some saved searches in my Google reader, I’ve seen a number of lacrosse-case stories make the rounds. The bigger ones have generated some lasting buzz—the motion from Duke’s side to shut down the Duke Lawsuit website, the surreal news the accuser, […]
Tagged Duke lacrosse, Duke University, KC Johnson, Tim TysonIt’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 […]
Tagged Alan Kors, culture war, Duke lacrosse, Duke University, intellectual diversity, KC Johnson, thefire.org, Wiegman-Lubiano-HardtThe 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 […]
Tagged culture war, Duke lacrosse, Duke University, KC Johnson, Wiegman-Lubiano-HardtOver 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 […]
Tagged Duke lacrosse, Duke University, KC Johnson, Kerry Haynie, liestoppers, Wiegman-Lubiano-HardtI’ve already written twice about this episode of the Duke lacrosse scandal. Check the first of those posts for details. I touched on it again to make some points about people jumping to conclusions in a heated controversy that’s bound to have some nastiness on both sides. But there was an important piece of the […]
Tagged Duke lacrosse, Duke University, KC Johnson, Kerry Haynie, liestoppers, thefire.orgThis post about the Duke lacrosse case is the last of three parts about how KC Johnson produced his cast of extremists—you can go back to the introduction or the part about Karla Holloway. Most of Mark Anthony Neal’s (disclaimer) appearances in Durham-in-Wonderland (DIW) are pinned to one of three things. The first is his […]
Tagged Duke lacrosse, Duke University, KC Johnson, Mark Anthony NealThis post about the Duke lacrosse case is the second of three parts about how KC Johnson produced his cast of extremists—you can go back to the introduction or skip ahead to the part about Mark Anthony Neal. Karla Holloway (disclaimer) is one of the “listening” statement endorsers with the highest profile on Durham-in-Wonderland (DIW). […]
Tagged Duke lacrosse, Duke University, Karla Holloway, KC Johnson