Truly and utterly depraved; IU Kinsey Institute and Vanderbilt University’s mutilation for moola “medical center.”

https://notthebee.com/article/depravity-beyond-measure-iu-erects-statue-to-honor-wicked-pedophile

Yesterday the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh used his formidable platform to draw attention to this bit of news coming out of Indiana University in Bloomington:
Bronze sculpture of Alfred C. Kinsey marks 75th anniversary of Kinsey Institute
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If you’re looking for definitive evidence of just how grotesque, corrupt, and depraved academia has become, this is it. It defies common sense, reasonable judgement, even sanity for an institution of higher learning to debase itself by honoring such a noted fraud and wicked pedophile. Of course they know they’ll get away with it – that isn’t the point. The question is why they even want to honor such perverse evil?

It’s an issue I’ve been writing about for over a decade, asking why a university culture that happily rode the wave of #MeToo, decrying everything from actual sexual violence to made-up, theoretical phenomenon like the “male gaze,” would channel hundreds of millions of dollars to an entire research center named after the godfather of sexual trauma.

Keep in mind, Indiana University is located in the same state as the plucky Indy Star journalists who worked diligently to expose former U.S. gymnastics doctor Larry Nasser for doing just a fraction of the things the disgraced zoologist-turned-self-proclaimed-sex-researcher Alfred Kinsey did.

Acknowledged in the New York Times, there exists a revolting record of in-depth reports on Kinsey’s sexual experiments on children as young as infants. Much of it came to light after the esteemed Dr. Judith Reisman blew the lid off Kinsey’s crimes. Just a warning, this is going to be graphic, but it’s important information.

Quantified by his own handmade charts and graphs, the man IU has now honored with a bronze statue facilitated the sexual violation of up to 2,035 infants and children
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In Kinsey’s landmark book, “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male,” Table 34 reveals sickening data that would make Larry Nassar, Harvey Weinstein, and the vilest pedophiles blush.

Not only does Indiana University feel no shame over all this, the school has historically done everything in its power to protect Kinsey’s reputation while attacking his accusers.

During her tenure as the head of Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute, documents now prove June Reinisch directed a relentless legal badgering of Dr. Reisman’s efforts to expose Kinsey’s crimes.

Dr. Reisman’s pro bono legal team initially filed a defamation lawsuit against Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute and Reinisch that was eventually dismissed not on merit, but because Reisman’s team could not afford competing with IU’s inexhaustible legal budget.

To this day, despite being a public institution, Indiana University keeps a lid on all contemptible records of Kinsey’s work, and reportedly refuses access to its files for those researchers whose efforts call into question the conduct or methodology of Alfred Kinsey.

It’s a remarkable commentary on the state of academia when you consider that in an era of statue-toppling, Robert E. Lee, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson can’t make the grade, but a child-molesting, fraudulent zoologist gets erected in bronze.

Moby Dick has a surprising amount of humor. The voice is strangely modern, considering how long ago it was written.

There is a non-fiction list as well.

Sure, not Fiction, but it said ‘Greatest Books’ not ‘Greatest Fiction Books of the Western World’

I decided, after this post, to try it yet again, but on audio. Holy Cow! The reader for the edition I got (William Hookins) has totally changed my ability to get through this. My voice for Ishmael was mostly Bob Cratchit (‘A Christmas Carol’), a genial guy down on his luck. Hootkins is reading it as a fop, deigning to sail because he was ‘bored.’

It is much funnier an peppier than I thought. My preconceived notions of a slog have been totally upended.

NOTE: The Hunger Games was “Avery Judd’s First Review” in 2008; I’m guessing that’s the child of one of the Brothers — it’s still a lousy book on lots of levels, but I can see why they would want to encourage the younger generation to read and comment on books they’ve read.

https://catholicexchange.com/the-brothers-juddthe-adventure-of-great-literature/

Anyone stumbling across their sprawling website (www.brothersjudd.com)—and over 20,000 people have, since it went up in 1998— will find over a thousand reviews on books ranging from Alexander Hamilton, American to North Dallas Forty to Slouching Towards Bethlehem to The Winter of Our Discontent. These statistics are even more amazing because the site was put up by two men, Orrin Judd, age 40 who writes the content, and his brother Stephen, 37, who does the Web design and Internet heavy lifting.

“Eschewing any false humility”, Orrin says, “I think we have the best book site on the web. Even someone who disagreed with every word I’ve ever written could use the links at our site to find out more about a book, author or topic. We’re very nearly unique in that regard; most other sites don’t have links because they’re afraid you won’t make it back to their site.”

So who are the Brothers Judd and what makes people make it back to their site? They are two family men living in New Hampshire. Stephen is a Local Area Network Manager at the University of New Hampshire and Orrin works for a business geographics company. They each have two kids, and Orrin has a third on the way.

In the summer of 1998, Stephen was finishing his doctoral studies at the University of New Hampshire, and had room available on a Web server, so he put up a home page, featuring content by the two brothers. Prior to that, he was stationed in Bosnia, as an officer in the Army Reserves. Orrin says, “I sent him boxes of books to read during his rather considerable down time.” The two brothers thought that since Orrin was such a voracious reader, it would be fun for him to recommend books as content for the site.

At about the same time The Modern Library had just come out with their 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century, and since Orrin had already read many of them, he decided to read them all and then review them. He says he was perplexed by some of the Modern Library’s choices. “I was particularly bothered by them putting Ulysses by James Joyce at the top of the list and by the inclusion of Finnegan’s Wake. As I reviewed the books from that list I was struck by how many of the books were neither enjoyable nor edifying. It really seemed to me that to make a list of the Top 100 a book should be at least one of those things, preferably both.”

Judd critiques books “on the basis of whether they contain messages that could help us to understand the human condition and hopefully leave us a little bit wiser than before we read them.”

As a result of Orrin’s critiques, eventually the Brothers Judd’s site began to take on a definite flavor: a firm grounding in Western Culture, Judeo-Christian ethics, and American conservative values. “I don’t necessarily want an author to share my precise viewpoint,” Orrin says, “but I do expect them to engage issues like good and evil and the struggle for freedom and Man’s relationship with God in serious ways.”
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Once he’s completed a book that he feels is worthy of review (good or bad), Judd begins to assemble his review, usually beginning with a summary of the plot of a novel or the overall themes from a work of non-fiction, and some quotes from the work, so that people can get a sense of an author’s style. “Then I try to write an essay that will spin out at least one idea from the book, preferably an unusual idea or one that might not have occurred to other readers, maybe not even to the author. I hope to leave anyone who reads the review with something to think about, some thought that will nag at them as they read the book I’m reviewing or any other book.”

Judd then chooses a collection of relevant links to complement (and often dispute) his review. Finally, he assigns each book a letter grade. (And sometimes multiple grades, for books such as the controversial Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris, which Judd gave an A/F grade—A for excellence as a novel, and F for ineptness as a biography. For Annette Curtis Klause’s Blood and Chocolate, he gave an “A to F” score, depending upon the age of the reader.)

[NOTE: I totally agree with the grade for “Dutch” – AF]

As the reviews piled up, Judd has increasingly made an effort to demonstrate the struggle between freedom versus security, two conflicting ideas that he thinks ultimately define the human condition.
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Judd believes that much of the animosity between the Left and the Right, as well as between Fundamentalists and non-literalist believers comes from the failure to see why the other side has chosen one or the other of these ideals.
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So with that sort of conservative background, are there liberal authors Orrin respects? Judd says that one of the best books he read in 2001 was Rick Perlstein’s Before the Storm, about Barry Goldwater’s presidential candidacy. Perlstein writes for leftist publications like The Nation and The Village Voice, but Judd felt that “he brought an openness of mind and a generosity of heart to the subject that led to a very fair book. I think those qualities are far more important than political affiliation. I don’t much enjoy reading conservative authors who are blinded by ideology either.”

Judd also enjoyed Jim Sleeper’s Liberal Racism, because “the writer is trying to come to grips with an aspect of the Left that isn’t working. And David Denby’s Great Books re-examined the value of the Western Canon. I think books like these are very interesting, even if I don’t agree with everything the authors have to say.”