But very feasible if the supernatural elohim are real and have given them the use of higher powers.

Yea, I too sort of thought this was, uh, rather strange. I tend to strongly think that higher education, or just education in general, looks at the world as it is in order understand.

No returns on that deal.

The way the intellectuals view “the world as it should be,” yes. When “the world as it should be” includes things all the laws of physics disallow, like teleporters and transwarp drives and perfectly functioning socialism, it is in fact diametrically opposed to “the world as it is,” and support for the former must necessarily call for the latter’s destruction.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-684-84445-9

“The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past

Keith Windschuttle, Author Free Press $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-684-84445-9
The deliberately provocative title of this latest entry in the ongoing culture wars belies a reasonable, subtly argued if wide-ranging and at times unwieldy critique of contemporary historical theory. Australian author and lecturer Windschuttle contends that the introduction of fashionable academic “”history”” courses under such rubrics as cultural, media and gender studies are agenda-driven and have undercut the practices of history as a discipline. Windschuttle clearly subscribes to Roger Kimball’s “”tenured radicals”” thesis, and places much blame for the decline in traditional history on postmodernist French literary and social theorists–above all, Michel Foucault. In the introduction of theoretical approaches like structuralism, poststructuralism, deconstruction and semiotics, he says, contemporary radical theorists posit a cultural relativism that denies an objective, knowable truth about the past. The author argues that history is inherently empirical: that historians draw conclusions by inductive reasoning based on research, rather than by the application of preconceived theories. Each of the nine chapters examines a particular episode or issue and analyzes current trends in scholarship. For example, a chapter on the conquest of Mexico presents a fascinating overview of this event and various historians’ interpretations of it. The author warns that “”cultural relativism will never serve the real interests of indigenous peoples if it denies them access to the truth about the past.”” While these views will scarcely endear Windschuttle to the academics whose theoretical approaches he attacks, he largely succeeds in shedding more light than heat on some contentious issues.”
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I tried to post a link to an excellent review by Roger Kimball in New Criterion, but the comment got lost last night somehow.

Lots of socialists and Marxists who don’t get the real world. And they control funding and hiring, so guess what happens if you study military history or don’t buy into their toxic worldview?

Twice in recent weeks, French courts have refused to prosecute men for rape after they had sex with 11-year-old girls because authorities couldn’t prove coercion. Amid the public disbelief over the situation, the French government is drafting a bill to say that sex with children under a certain age is by definition coercive.

Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet provoked consternation among feminist groups Monday by saying a legal minimum age of 13 for sexual consent “is worth considering.”
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If the accusations against Judge Moore are actually true, he might want to consider Making America France Again.

IQ is a bitch.