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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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  • The Disappearance of Average Joe

    The Disappearance of Average Joe0

    Here’s the answer to that question right off the bat: Joe didn’t go anywhere. Instead, our culture, our lawmakers, our pundits, and others made him invisible. They have erased Average Joe. And Average Josephine too, for that matter. Who today really speaks for the barber in Weaverville, North Carolina who just spent eight hours on

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  • The Dingbat Craziness of the Latest PETA Proclamation

    The Dingbat Craziness of the Latest PETA Proclamation0

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Each morning’s internet headlines bring a new version of crazy. This morning was no different. In her article “PETA: Using Animal Names as Verbal Insults Is Supremacist Language,” Catherine Smith reports that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is decrying the use of insults and anti-animal slurs

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  • The Difference Between Public Libraries and Public Schools

    The Difference Between Public Libraries and Public Schools0

    Plans for the Boston Public Library, the nation’s second-oldest public library, were approved in 1852, the same year Massachusetts passed the country’s first compulsory schooling law. Both public libraries and public schools are funded through taxation and both are “free” to access, but the similarities end there. The main difference between public libraries and public

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  • The Difference Between Guilt and Shame, and the Rise of Identity Politics

    The Difference Between Guilt and Shame, and the Rise of Identity Politics0

    In the digital age, there is always something to be outraged about. Whether it be the “infiltration” by fast food chicken restaurants; the LGBTQIA “plot” to overthrow the good, the true, and the beautiful; or a prom dress single-handedly (single-sleavedly?) wreaking more havoc on Asian culture than Genghis Khan, there’s something to anger everyone! In

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