Category: Table-Thumping

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On Presentism and History; Or, We’re Doing This Again, Are We?

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There are so many urgent—one could argue, dire—issues which members of the community of historians face. The ongoing right-wing war against public and higher education…

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The Summer of Magical Thinking

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What’s your college or university doing about the fall semester? This question seems more urgent now then ever, given how Dr. Anthony Fauci told a…

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Each Against All: Neoliberalism and Higher Education, Part 3

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For Part One, click HERE. For Part Two, click HERE. In the first two parts of this series, I looked at both the larger philosophical…

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Each Against All: Neoliberalism and Higher Education, Part 2

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[Click here to read Part One] In the 1970s, neoliberalism came into its own as a coherent ideological platform and political-economic policy toolkit. As politicians,…

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Each Against All: Neoliberalism and Higher Education, Part One.

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Which things, tell me, are yours? Whence have you brought your goods into life? You are like one occupying a place in a theater, who…

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How Is It “Being Silenced” When You Won’t Shut Up About It?

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A pernicious conspiracy against The Truth™ exists in higher education, riddled as it is with politically-correct snowflakes unable to reckon with the cold hard facts…

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