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Posted by Mary Grabar, July 25, 2016: Recently, we talked with Mark Zunac, editor of Literature and the Conservative Ideal, which features eight essays covering the state of the academy, the conservative critical tradition, reviving the canon, and non-canonical texts (including one by yours truly on George Schuyler), as well as an introduction by Mark Bauerlein, Professor of English at Emory University and author of The Dumbest Generation.
Mark Zunac, Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (Marquette University Ph.D. 2008), teaches multiple levels of composition as well as early modern and Victorian British literature. His primary research interests are "writing, revolution, and the rise of intellectual conservatism following the French Revolution."
How did your interest in literature and conservatism begin?
My interest in literature and conservatism stems in part from my general research area of the British counterrevolution during the 1790s and early 1800s. Yet having worked in higher education for nearly a decade, I have noticed with more frequency the influence of politics on the humanities, as well as on higher education generally.
Read more: Literature and the Conservative Ideal: An Interview with Editor Mark Zunac
Posted February 1, 2013: By Mary Grabar (and Norman Berdichevsky) Dissident Prof is happy to be picked up by Watch Dog Wire and The Tea Party Tribune, both great sources of information. This Saturday, February 2 at 9:30 a.m., she will be on WLAQ 1410 in Rome, Georgia, on the Tea Party Talk program discussing Common Core and other issues in education. Programs are accessible online here. Then make your plans to join the Lunch Bunch meeting of the Rome Tea Party on February 20, for a talk by yours truly. There was so much more to talk about with my excellent radio hosts, Mike Morton and Diane Coker, and I hope to have the time to do that on the 20th.
Read more: Common Core and Has It Happened Here? (Berdichevsky)
On Contemporary Academic Discourse by Ewa Thompson, Rice University
In 1990 the American philosopher Alasdair Macintyre published Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopedia, Genealogy, Tradition.[i]The last chapter of this book is titled “Reconceiving the university and the lecture,” and it ends with a proposition: in academic discourse we should “introduce” ourselves before we start speaking.
“Let her and Falsehood grapple; whoever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?” John Milton Areopagitica
The War Lovers: A Critical Review by Brian E. Birdnow, Posted August 8, 2012
In The War Lovers (Little Brown, 2010), Evan Thomas, of Newsweek, the troubled bastion of mainstream liberal journalism, tries his hand at popular history and produces a sprightly, readable and well-written volume. Most members of the historical profession resent the journalists poaching on our game preserve. As a historian, I, however, welcome outsiders into the game and believe that new perspectives can be helpful and that journalists who write well often improve on the ponderous, pedantic, and pretentious pronouncements of the academic historians. So the historians need to hold their water when the so-called amateurs invade their field…provided that the history the amateurs write is good and credible. Unfortunately, in the case of Evan Thomas and The War Lovers, this is not true.
Editor’s Note: Once again, I have to thank NAS for providing the opportunity for meeting contributor Will Fitzhugh. Will has an AB in English Literature and Ed.M. in Guidance from Harvard. After a number of years in industry, he taught high school for ten years in Concord, Massachusetts. In 1987 he started The Concord Review, the only journal in the world for the academic papers of secondary students, which has now published 987 history essays from 44 states and 38 other countries.
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