Interesting thread. I confess that I'm too interested in ideas, books, and places beyond my hometown, and too disinterested in my hometown in the provinces, to be unreservedly against the things that this thread is against...but it's a good thread.https://twitter.com/HAHazony/status/1460590461224165379 …
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Replying to @MorlockP
I'm a conservative professor at a state regional in a conservative state -and we're still crazy lefty, despite being demographically the conservative school in the state. Parts of this seem like they might be good, but a lot of it is not quite right.
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Deracination? I wish my students were deracinated. They go home every weekend, frequently skip class for family events, and go home every time a grandparent gets the sniffles (yes, yes, finals week -most dangerous time for grandparents, we make the joke, too).
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Replying to @sabrdance @MorlockP
Cosmopolitan nature of Academia? We're the most parochial bunch you'll ever meet. Maybe we're a different type of parochial, but still parochial. Students trained to judge the Canon? Please -they barely read it, and I can't get them to recite it, let alone judge it.
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Replying to @sabrdance @MorlockP
The severing of meaning happens long before students get to my classroom, if that's even the problem. Maybe this is the problem at Harvard, but most people don't go to Harvard.
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I don't know if a liberal cabal is brainwashing my students -I suspect the actual issue is that so much of our classes are geared towards "usefulness" and "employable skills" rather than "understanding." It's a cargo cult mentality to information -and that feeds liberalism.
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I'm not convinced that many are capable of understanding...or want it
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