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By Mary Grabar, Posted December 28, 2012: Dissident Prof has nothing to say directly about the gunning down of 20 children and 6 adults in a school in Newtown, Connecticut. Philosophers and theologians have debated the question of evil since time immemorial, but as they have been replaced by ideologues in the academy, our national conversation has degenerated apace. Politicians and news anchors exploited the tragedy for their own benefit. Cable news programs covered it for 24 hours days on end.
In this climate of anti-intellectualism emanating from the very places where one once expected intellectual and moral guidance, real discussion--especially about the Second Amendment--becomes impossible. No wonder such an ill-educated electorate is accustomed to an increasing role for the federal government--one that assumes the role of parent.
Dissident Prof was back in the pages of Townhall this week and was heartened to see that her readers followed and enjoyed her article about the Center for American Progress's piggybacking onto the Tea Party's attention to the founding fathers and the Constitution, but by devious means.
Conservative professors and students continue to face challenges in the academic industrial complex.
Paul Derengowski, an adjunct professor at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas, quit after two Muslim students disrupted and frightened his world religion class and then walked out.
"Kink on Campus" by Mary Grabar, posted on December 10, 2012: For all the Bill O'Reilly of Fox News-watching, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals who believe that a student club for kinky sex is another sign of the end times, we have Inside Higher Ed that explains it all. You see, Harvard students need a BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Sadism and Masochism) club for their emotional health and intellectual development.
Besides, other cool Ivies, like Yale and Cornell, have had these for a while. These groups provide students with "a safe space during informal lunch or dinner meetings to talk about kinky sex and self-awareness."
By Mary Grabar, posted August 24, 2012 Today is the birthday of Howard Zinn who would have been 90, Bill Bigelow at the Huffington Post, reminds us. And so does Anthony Arnove at AlterNet. (Amazing, says Arnove, that Zinn would have been picked to introduce Henry Wallace at a presidential campaign event at the tender age of 26. Of course, if you might think that this is because Zinn was a Communist you are just a paranoid McCarthyite.)
The commie's spirit still lives, though, in books assigned to innocent students and in the anarchists and occupiers intent on destroying the legitimate political process in Tampa next week. Here's another tribute to him in The Boston Occupier.
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