6 thoughts on “Dispatches From Academia”

  1. “We’re asking to be reflected in our education,” Adams cuts in. “I literally am so tired of learning about Marx, when he did not include race in his discussion of the market!”

    Actually I think Oberlin performs a valuable service. There’s a scene in one of the greatest American movies of all time: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. They’ve used a ruse to lure the vampires onto a train, and when the lead vampire asks incredulously “Why?” the response is: “To get you all in one place, to finish you off.” Why Oberlin? To put them all in one place, to condense the entertainment value.

    you’d be equally a fool to borrow money as an undischargeable debt to do so as well.
    Well, the solution is obvious. Make it dischargeable. Problem solved.

  2. This is slightly off-topic, but the link sparks my curiosity. The webstite. When I clicked the link to the article, I got, in addition to the article, a pop-up for THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE, saying “Real conservatism is back!” I left the conservative “church” decades ago, after the bigwigs in the movement read libertarians out of it (and after a bunch of them rushed to the defense of Nixon’s wage and price controls, I was ready to leave), so I’m probably not up on all the more recent schisms and internecine quarrels. Has there been a phony conservatism that this group is fighting against? Would it have something to do with Trump? (Most things do, these days, it seems.)

    1. TAC changes regimes and consequently opinions more often than a West African kleptocracy but usually if The Weekly Standard is for something TAC is against it.

  3. I wonder where Oberlin and other such universities will get future students and future alumni donations from. At some point, the damage from these anti-intellectual ideologies will harm anyone with a degree from this university, past or future.

  4. To quote the ever-quotable Bill Whittle, Oberlin College is where reason and logic go to die.

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