The following is an addendum to my Guest Post, “Bibliography: Implicit Bias.” It’s designed to serve as a segue to my next bibliography, on EDI and research excellence, to be released tomorrow, March 7, 2022. Here, find three considerations concerning… Read More ›
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SAFE SPACES (Repost, 26/02/2020)
I’m not sure that academia attracts heresy. Rather I suspect it’s tenure that generates it. In fact since we’re all, by definition, catholic, without the threat of hell – or in our case unemployment – we’d probably all think unclean… Read More ›
DIVERSE DOES NOT MEAN UNORTHODOX
Here’s a little known fact about human beings. They compete for resources, certainly, but also for higher positions in the social pecking order. That is, I could have made more money in the private sector – still could, in fact… Read More ›
REQUIEM FOR THE UNIVERSITY
Universities are like any other institution. They evolve, they devolve. Sometimes they rise out of the ashes, and sometimes they go the way of the dodo bird. But they always morph. So though I’ve recently come to co-awfulise with my… Read More ›
MY BELOVED MARJORIE
For those of you who’ve been following this blog long enough to have detected a gradual drift from my erstwhile Marxist roots towards the Alt-Right, be advised that I’ve just taken leave of both my wife and my senses and… Read More ›
DIVERSITY AND ORTHODOXY
Scene One: Five friends walk into a bar. Each is a fundamentalist pro-Life Trump-supporting Republican who’s never disagreed with the other four about anything. But one is white, another black, one brown, one yellow, and one red. Scene Two: Five … Read More ›