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Said’s book became canonical in many Middle East Studies departments, pressuring students and professors to prove they were not Orientalists. Israel’s history was subjected to withering revisionism.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
The right had a Critical Race Theory-like talking point: the academic left is poisoning young minds; there are stable truths.
David Shields • How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon
At the same time, he argued, the desire to attract and satisfy students as though they are mere customers leads to academic coddling, in the form of easy grades and expensive facilities and entertainments, such as intercollegiate athletic teams.
Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
Whereas Buchanan’s views were informed by a sense of earnestness, humility, and respect, Rothbard’s every breath was laden with irreverence for authority. Buchanan was an Irish Catholic who regarded 1959’s liberalizing Vatican II Council as a surrender of the forces of good (meaning orthodoxy) to those of decadent modernism. Rothbard, on the other
... See moreMichael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Mill held that truth emerges from an unfettered competition of ideas and that individual character is most improved when allowed to find its own way uncoerced. That vision was insufficient for 20th-century American liberalism.
Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
mobilizing against Israel, and other reactionary pursuits, Ivy institutions are pursuing the fancies of a declining intellectual and business elite,