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Also tagged Erin O'Connor, Minding the Campus, stupid conservative tricksMe: There is no reference to the behavior of the lacrosse players in the section you quoted. KC: I am pleased to see that you are no longer denying that Matherly’s post referenced the lacrosse players’ behavior. [Update below] There’s the essence of my latest exchange with KC Johnson in the Durham-in-Wonderland comments — as […]
Also tagged Duke lacrosseThe funny thing about the broadside KC Johnson fired in my direction about two months ago (yes, I’m finally getting around to it) is how noncommittal it is. Sometimes his defense is solid, other times not so much. For instance, urging Duke to conduct an “impartial investigation” may not “strike [him] as the response of […]
Also tagged Duke lacrosse case, Duke UniversityA quick note about one of the “… intriguing … items” that KC Johnson recently scrutinized, a “‘report’ produced by an entity called ‘Trinity Heights Action Committee’” and then faxed by Durham mayor Bill Bell to Duke president Richard Brodhead. I’ll admit it, I would have accepted that the document is an actual report written […]
Also tagged Duke lacrosse caseAs I’ve watched things appear on Durham-in-Wonderland lately I’ve been thinking that KC Johnson must finally be running out of material. Tonight’s post seemed to be more of the same, another episode in his recent fixation with Wahneema Lubiano, apropos of nothing. But then he totally outdoes himself by tacking on an impressive bit of […]
Also tagged Duke lacrosse case, Karla Holloway, William AndersonThere’s another rhetorical crutch at work in the conservative critiques of academia that I’ve been going over—the golden age. KC Johnson’s commentary (see the last post—this one is a close offshoot of that one) refers to “the alarming decline in intellectual pluralism,” and—here’s a coincidence—the site that ran it, Minding the Campus is “a project […]
Also tagged Alan Kors, culture war, Duke lacrosse case, intellectual diversity, Minding the CampusThere’s a simple question behind the things I’ve written over the past six months or so about the intersection between the Duke lacrosse case and the conservative critique of higher education. How can anyone who’s worried about the academic world’s low intellectual standards, who’s pushing to raise those standards, even, how can they not only […]
Also tagged Alan Kors, culture war, Duke lacrosse case, intellectual diversity, Minding the Campus, thefire.orgIn this post and the one before I’m looking at a couple of recent episodes in KC Johnson’s ongoing crusade against left-wing extremists in academia. Last time I wrote about his attempt to pursue two narrow agendas at once. One, the academic-culture crusade, he pursues with the usual rhetoric and agenda-driven reasoning while the other […]
Also tagged culture war, Duke lacrosse case, Rashid Khalidi, Tim Tyson, tribalismUntil a couple of weeks ago we were supposed to be stocking up on information for “Decision 2008” (a lot of the best stuff seemed to be on “Indecision 2008”, though). According to columnist William Kristol, Sarah Palin was doing her part, “helping the American people understand ‘who the real Barack Obama is’” by raising […]
Also tagged Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, bullshit, culture war, David Thompson, intellectual diversity, Rashid Khalidi, tribalismA few posts ago, a reader suggested that I’d “squeezed all the available juice out of DIW” (KC Johnson’s blog Durham-in-Wonderland, that is) and I might find some fresh material on David Thompson’s blog. The first thing I read over there was on an old familiar theme—liberal academics and their uncontrollable urge to indoctrinate. Not […]
Also tagged culture war, David Thompson, intellectual diversity