I have now been identified as a conservative defender of a conservative canon because I said that: 1) being actively engaged in a field via research was different, and deeper, than being able to pinch-hit in it by covering an undergraduate couse in it; 2) researchers and specialists were resources for the university, not just … More In Which I Am A Conservative Canon-Defender
You are incredibly rude and condescending to women. In fact, your behavior borders on the boorish. I need to remember to explain this you this clearly next time you do it to me, instead of talking back with my usual “Stop it, do not be so silly, listen to what I am saying, we have … More Dear Whiteman
The number of myths now masquerading as fact are very tiring to refute, so I am glad when other people help to do it. Right now I am glad the NYT has refuted a few myths about religion, the Founders, and the Framers. The article refers to Mitt Romney’s speech on the matter earlier this … More Refuting Myths
PZ: These students refuse to learn. WM: They do not share your views on the value of learning. PZ: But they are in school, so they are on the turf of learning. They should play by house rules. WM: Not necessarily. PZ: So the house rules no longer emphasize the value of learning? WM: … … More A Corporative Whiteman
… Interpretation of the Constitution to the Christian Right I thought that the way in which my academic freedom was curtailed was in the need to cater to the tendentious religions and politics of the students. I have long been aware, to give one very clear example, that I as a professor cannot criticize Creation … More On Outsourcing
1. We went to a mandatory meeting to watch a video in preparation for the flu pandemic the University foresees as a distinct possibility. We learned that in a pandemic, supplies and services will be hard to come by. We should always keep two weeks’ worth of food and clean water in our houses. The … More In Ideology
Travailler, c’est trop dur – work is too hard. From one of my better students’ compositions: “Neither Sor Juana nor Mary Wollstonecraft were feminist authors. To defend the rights of women, including their access to knowledge and ability to write and publish, is not feminist. To accuse these women of feminism for having spent their … More Travailler, c’est trop dur
“If y’all are losing, who’s winning? ‘Cause it ain’t us.” Meet Chris Rock, commenting on the situation of white people who, as we know, are suffering renewed oppression. We like to argue and speculate about race, but class – long a taboo topic in “A-merry-ca” (h/t Field Negro) where everyone can “pursue happiness” – has … More On Neoliberalism and the White Man’s Lament
I will help anyone, but I will not join an illusion. Illusion: The course Madame is taking with me, she failed with someone else, who discovered late in the semester, as I have just done, that the reason she needs so much tutoring and seems so incapable is that she has refused to take the … More Dear University Student #1
I need to write the journalistic article I discuss here and two academic articles, and I need to do these things very soon. But it is Sunday and everyone in town but my pagan self is in church confessing, so I will confess, too. I dislike a post to which I will not link and … More In Church
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