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  • The Doctor of Deconstruction: Who Is Jacques Derrida?

    The Doctor of Deconstruction: Who Is Jacques Derrida?4

    It seems that words today change meanings every day. For instance, the words “man” and “woman” are now taken to mean a variety of mutually exclusive realities. What was clear and simple is now conflicting and confusing. How did we arrive here, why does it matter, and who is responsible? Enter French philosopher Jacques Derrida.

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  • The Diversity Staff at the University of Michigan Is Nearly 100 Full-Time Employees

    The Diversity Staff at the University of Michigan Is Nearly 100 Full-Time Employees0

    Year after year, media note and sometimes bemoan the ballooning cost of higher education. There is no doubt that the human costs of this rise are severe: Some 44 million Americans currently carry nearly $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, and the delinquency rate is 11 percent.    There are various reasons for surging costs,

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  • The Diversity Division at the University of Texas Has 8 Vice Presidents

    The Diversity Division at the University of Texas Has 8 Vice Presidents0

    American Enterprise Institute scholar Mark Perry recently wrote about the impressive size of the University of Michigan’s diversity staff, which is nearly one hundred full-time employees. We noted that more than a quarter of these “diversicrats” earn annual salaries north of $100,000. The revelation generated a bit of a stir on Twitter. Not to be

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  • The Disturbing End of Our Modern ‘Me’ Culture

    The Disturbing End of Our Modern ‘Me’ Culture4

    In his popular work Culture of Narcissism, Christopher Lasch wrote: To live for the moment is the prevailing passion—to live for yourself, not for your predecessors or posterity. We are fast losing the sense of historical continuity, the sense of belonging to a succession of generations originating in the past and stretching into the future.

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  • The Disenchantment of the Modern Professor

    The Disenchantment of the Modern Professor0

    As demonstrated by some of the responses to my blog post—“Why Professors Are Writing Crap That Nobody Reads”—today’s academics can be a sensitive bunch. Most professors seemed to agree with me that much—not all—of academic research today is poorly written, obscurantist, and of dubious merit. Other professors, however, were furious that someone would dare make that

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  • The Disappearing Valedictorian: Another Victim of the Participation Trophy Generation?

    The Disappearing Valedictorian: Another Victim of the Participation Trophy Generation?0

    One of the central plots in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables concerns the fractious relationship between Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe. This friction primarily plays out in the classroom where Anne determines to get ahead of Gilbert in every subject even if it kills her: “Now Gilbert was head of the spelling class;

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