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  • Prophetic Fiction: Literary Accounts of Woke Academia

    Prophetic Fiction: Literary Accounts of Woke Academia4

    I have a very fat file in my computer of crazy things that have happened in my professional life as an academic. Colleagues saying and doing stuff no one outside of academia would believe; encounters with students convinced they knew more about my work than I do; and classes, speakers, and other campus events so

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  • Proper Matches, Romantic Elopements, & True Love in Jane Austen’s Novels

    Proper Matches, Romantic Elopements, & True Love in Jane Austen’s Novels0

    Readers of Jane Austen’s novels recognize the plot that informs every story, the business of marriage that determines the future happiness of each eligible woman. Whom will Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Emma Woodhouse in Emma, Anne Elliot in Persuasion, Fanny Price in Mansfield Park, and Elinor and Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility

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  • Propaganda: The Accusation is More Important than the Verdict

    Propaganda: The Accusation is More Important than the Verdict0

    If we’re truly honest with ourselves, we would recognize news ultimately as a form of gossip. Who’s having business trouble? Which actress embarrassed herself? What do the elite think about fashion? Some of it is valuable, but most of it is merely entertainment for us. As such, salacious accusations of misdeeds get “clicks”. Beyond generating

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  • Propaganda: Are Americans Being Taken In By It?

    Propaganda: Are Americans Being Taken In By It?0

    After taking a hiatus from watching news programs for a while, a friend of mine recently turned on MSNBC. Following this experience, he said something along the following lines: “I’m done. I just can’t take it. The news cycle is continual repetition over and over again.” His statement recalled something I read while paging through

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  • Propaganda: 4 Tips to Fight It

    Propaganda: 4 Tips to Fight It0

    Edward Bernays, considered by many to be the father of modern propaganda, opens his famous book Propaganda by stating: We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. Of those men “we have never heard of”, Bernays writes: “Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of

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  • Propaganda Looney Tunes

    Propaganda Looney Tunes9

    I remember my history textbooks explaining the use of cartoonish figures as propaganda during the two World Wars. Imagine, for a moment, the inspiring Rosie the Riveter and Uncle Sam contrasted against the overbearing, dull, and cartoonish displays of the fascists and communists. I was inspired by Rosie, and at the same time, I viewed the cartoons of our

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