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  • Academic Writing is Becoming a Caricature of Itself

    Academic Writing is Becoming a Caricature of Itself0

    Much of modern postsecondary intellectual discourse emblematizes a regressive displacement of phraseology toward loquacious amalgamations intended to subvert intelligibility. Which is academic-speak for “Most academic writing these days is crap.” We’ve written on this subject before. In no other time in history have so many professors written so much that is unintelligible to the public,

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  • Academic Research is in Danger of Becoming a Joke

    Academic Research is in Danger of Becoming a Joke0

    What do a gay man expressing his voyeuristic fantasies about intercourse with Dominican sex workers, Pumpkin Spiced Lattés demonstrating inherent White Supremacy, a doctoral thesis on ethical implications of ghosts and scary stories on the internet, and the need for a Feminist epistemology of glaciers have in common? They’re all the topics of academic papers

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  • Academic Publishing Is a Total Mess. Here Are 6 Ways to Fix It.

    Academic Publishing Is a Total Mess. Here Are 6 Ways to Fix It.1

    The world of scholarly communication is broken. Giant, corporate publishers with racketeering business practices and profit margins that exceed Apple’s treat life-saving research as a private commodity to be sold at exorbitant profits. Only around 25 per cent of the global corpus of research knowledge is ‘open access’, or accessible to the public for free

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  • Academic Nonsense and Biases Have a Long History

    Academic Nonsense and Biases Have a Long History0

    The United States had a population of 1.5 million postsecondary faculty members in the fall of 2016. This ivory tower army produces volumes of written material so lofty that it’s rarely read by anyone. The content that is read can be hard for every day Americans to take seriously, for with 10.4 registered Democrats for every registered Republican, the political bias is strong

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  • Abstaining from Sex Until Marriage Helps Marriages Last

    Abstaining from Sex Until Marriage Helps Marriages Last0

    Virginity gets very little press or screen time these days and that’s a shame. As a new American study confirms, a woman who enters marriage as a virgin has the best chance of still being married five years later – and probably beyond that. In fact, the odds of her marriage lasting have got better over

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  • Absolute Comfort Corrupts Absolutely

    Absolute Comfort Corrupts Absolutely0

    My men went on and presently met the Lotus-Eaters, nor did these Lotus-Eaters have any thought of destroying our companions, but they only gave them lotus to taste of. But any of them who ate the honey-sweet fruit of lotus was unwilling to take any message back, or to go away, but they wanted to

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