The Culture of Cultural Studies: An Academic Bubble?
In his book Coming Apart, Charles Murray describes how the American upper and lower classes are increasingly living in separate cultures.
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Grievance Studies
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Why Conservatives Should Read Foucault
Michel Foucault has been a kind of godfather to progressive intellectuals since the 1960s, when he ousted Karl Marx as the de facto theoretical fountainhead for the academic left. According…
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The Anatomies of Two Academic Scandals
Recently, much attention has been drawn to several methodologically vacant papers in molecular and cellular biochemistry. They were all written by the same author, Dr. Yan Xin, and argue for…
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Should Universities Teach Conspiracy Theories as Knowledge?
Should there be university departments and courses, and should there be researchers and academic journals, devoted to conspiracy theories? I don’t mean this in the way you might immediately think.…
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Academic Freedom or Social Justice: What Kind of University is Portland State?
On October 2, 2018, the Wall Street Journal broke a story that detailed an unprecedented audit of certain sectors of academic research, specifically those we—its authors—called “grievance studies.” In that…
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A Response to Portland State’s Vanguard’s Anonymous Letter.
Prof. Boghossian and co-authors’ reception of the letter. On November 9th, Vanguard, Portland State University’s student newspaper ran a very strange article written not, it claims, by students but by…
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