Obran's banning of gender studies & expulsion of Central European University has excited the right to think big: what if we get rid of the humanities altogether? https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1134841341907734529 …
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Lol I teach the Renaissance which these people are absolutely obsessed with. My sense is they think the classical heritage has seeped into the culture, and if you can just protect the culture from inimical influences, you don't need liberal professors at all.
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Most conservatives have never heard of Edmund Burke
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The true cost of eliminating the study of the humanities is that people will make worse decisions earlier and more often. We study Hamlet, Dickinson, or Achebe not just as art but as wisdom.
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Fortunately there are plenty of modern "thinkers" willing to step up and replace conservative canon in exchange for a speaking fee and a chance to market their brain pills.
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Sales of Leo Strauss will go through the roof!
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Unintended consequences.
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People will still find Atlas Shrugged, and does modern conservative thought really need more than Ayn Rand?
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The backbone of conservative thought is
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One does not read those writers already in the conservative movement, it is a religion, one merely cites them without understanding them.
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I don’t know what angers me more: the idea of getting rid of the humanities, or the Pinker-led move to “scientize” them.
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