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Here's the video of @AnikaFreeindeed delivering our annual Lincoln Scholars lecture at AU. Anika, thank you!youtube.com/watch?v=KipdpMXd…
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I have been called a “weak man” and a “cuck” and various other things by people in those orbits on this platform but I think I’m kind of winning here.
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SPA Prof. & Dir. of @pcd_au @Lara_Schwartz spoke to @universitybiz about the importance of encouraging civil discourse on campus. “Colleges are supposed to exist to help people get good at new college-level skills, & one of them is civic engagement.” Read: bit.ly/3BKXPpO
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Is there a term for someone who thinks:
- it is indeed a problem that conservatives are underrepresented in academia
AND
- complaints about 'wokeness' in academia are mostly nonsense
Is that a position we are allowed to have?
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David Brostoff, a student in Lincoln Scholars, the program I direct, published this essay in Compass. It started out as David's final paper for his first year seminar. Way to go, David! compassjournal.org/the-tale-…
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@JPfefferMerrill calls for campuses that encourage civil dialogue and space for disagreement. @AmnaUncensored adds the distinction may be polarization is not the problem but the lack of space for dialogue between polarized people. Listen now at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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.@ptiatau @AmericanU Monday, Sept. 16 at 5:30 EDT
@publius57 on "The Political and Constitutional Thought of Alexander Hamilton"
Click here to learn more: american.edu/spa/pti/
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I wrote for @the_point_mag arguing that general education is the key to reviving the liberal arts. But why is it done so badly and how can it be done better? Honored to write alongside @AgnesCallard, @cwellmon, @jennfrey, @jonnythakkar and others. thepointmag.com/symposium/wh…
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Nick Buccola joins Tom and Sarah to talk about his book, The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, Jr, and the Debate over Race in America.
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For more than a decade, Ch'nel Duke has been a linchpin of the Madison Program. The JMP wouldn't be what it is today without her. She is the indispensable woman. Please join us in thanking Ch'nel for all she's done, and wishing her Godspeed as she begins a career in UX design.
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"We’re seeing in a number of fields, especially in the humanities & social sciences, demands that the disciplines themselves take on particular political priorities. If there is one thing good science should not be, it’s politicized" @jon_rauch @chronicle
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“General education programs, more than anything one can find in a school’s promotional literature, tell the actual story of what an institution thinks a college education is ultimately about.”
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TONIGHT, August 5, at 5:30 p.m: Join SPA’s @ptiatau & Prof. Borden Flanagan (@Blahbliptyblah) for a virtual conversation on “Progressivism and the Successor Ideology" w/ Author Wesley Yang (@wesyang), columnist for @tabletmag. Register here: bit.ly/3BXad7q
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Just discovered that the 1989 Gene Hackman film “The Package” has a scene in the tiki bar, a legendary joint in Chicago’s Hyde Park/university of Chicago neighborhood. Of blessed memory. @UChicago @UChicagoAlumni
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The biggest illusion in academia is that research, rather than teaching, is the domain in which most people can make their most valuable contribution.
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Interesting conversation between Marian Tupy, advocate of progres, and Matthew Slaboch, historian of critics of the idea of progress. The Human Progress Podcast Ep. 8 Transcript humanprogress.org/matthew-sl… via @HumanProgress
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Join SPA’s @ptiatau & Prof. Borden Flanagan (@Blahbliptyblah) for a virtual discussion on “Progressivism and the Successor Ideology" w/ Author Wesley Yang (@wesyang), columnist for @tabletmag, on Thursday, August 5, at 5:30 p.m. Register today: bit.ly/3BXad7q
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Austen is thought to have modeled Northanger Abbey after Charlotte Lennox's 1752 novel, The Female Quixote; Or, The Adventures of Arabella. Here's a recent article from Persuasions that might be of interest: jasna.org/publications-2/per….