Conservatives' insistence that they're unfairly marginalized from the academy is difficult to square with their conviction that multiple academic fields, emerging from sincere engagement with the social and material conditions of modern life, simply should not exist
Obviously it depends on the conservative critique; there is a range, to be sure. But the species of critique that would seek to more gender studies and critical race theory into traditional history/literature/sociology departments doesn't seem too different...
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...from the argument that Greek and Latin ought to have to share space, prominence and tenure-lines with a range of other pre-modern Mediterranean languages/cultures or (as I've seen proposed), all global 'ancient' cultures, however defined.
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Both plans would, in theory, involve unemploying quite a lot of scholars in the respective discipline with the sometimes tacit, sometimes explicit assumption that some small number of 'worthy' scholars in the discipline would survive by finding places in new combined departments.
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