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Good luck, Professor Abrams

The New Neo Posted on November 3, 2018 by neoNovember 3, 2018

Samuel Abrams is a Sarah Lawrence professor who has had the audacity to write about the lack of intellectual diversity among faculty and administrators on today’s college campuses, and of course the SJWs don’t like it and think he should … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Liberty, People of interest | 18 Replies

Pushback

The New Neo Posted on October 10, 2018 by neoOctober 10, 2018

There are quite a few interesting things about this incident. The first is that there are still Republican students and a Republican Club at Stanford these days. The second is that involves a male college student filing assault charges against … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Law, Liberals and conservatives; left and right, People of interest | 6 Replies

“Survivors” are the new sacred class in academia, and criticizing them the new heresy

The New Neo Posted on October 3, 2018 by neoOctober 3, 2018

The pattern is clear. Georgetown University refuses to sanction Professor Christine Fair for one of the most egregiously vile and violent comments I’ve ever seen on Twitter, whereas Catholic University comes down hard on Dean Rainford for merely stating a … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Liberty, Men and women; marriage and divorce and sex | 10 Replies

Meanwhile, Catholic University slaps down speech that criticizes self-described “victims”…

The New Neo Posted on October 2, 2018 by neoOctober 3, 2018

…no matter how illogical or implausible their stories. Earlier today, I wrote about how a disgusting and violent, racist and sexist tweet of Professor Christine Fair got no flak from her employer, Georgetown University. Meanwhile, Dean Will Rainford received some … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia | 27 Replies

Why is Christine Fair still a professor at Georgetown?

The New Neo Posted on October 1, 2018 by neoOctober 3, 2018

And I might add: why is she still allowed on Twitter? Those questions are rhetorical—I know the answer, which is that her vicious hatred is directed towards the correct people. Look at thus chorus of entitled white men justifying a … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Evil, Men and women; marriage and divorce and sex, Race and racism | 57 Replies

Ramirez, Mayer, and the Yale alum network

The New Neo Posted on September 26, 2018 by neoSeptember 26, 2018

In one of yesterday’s posts I pointed out that Ronan Farrow has made the following statement about Kavanaugh accuser Deborah Ramirez: She came forward because Senate Democrats came looking for this claim. She did not flag this. This came to … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Men and women; marriage and divorce and sex, Politics, Press | 19 Replies

Haidt’s latest offering

The New Neo Posted on September 6, 2018 by neoSeptember 6, 2018

This new book by Jonathan Haidt seems very promising. It’s entitled The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. Now, I’m not sure the people coddling the American mind … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Liberals and conservatives; left and right, Literature and writing | 5 Replies

#MeToo and the lesbian feminist lit prof

The New Neo Posted on August 27, 2018 by neoAugust 27, 2018

From The New Yorker: Ronell, who is sixty-six, is a literary scholar and philosopher at New York University and, by all accounts, one of the great academic minds of our time. Her accuser is Nimrod Reitman, her former doctoral student, … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Law, Men and women; marriage and divorce and sex | 19 Replies

Hungary’s Orban and government censorship of the academy

The New Neo Posted on August 18, 2018 by neoAugust 17, 2018

Hungary’s Viktor Orban is continually referred to as “far right.” And perhaps he is. For example, I saw this article describing how Orban has decided to ban gender studies programs in the two universities in Hungary that have offered them … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Liberty, Religion | 20 Replies

Facts vs. feelings: “Sarah Jeong’s tweets and blog posts are just a marker of the world we already live in”…

The New Neo Posted on August 9, 2018 by neoAugust 9, 2018

…writes Heather Mac Donald in National Review. Mac Donald also points out that Jeong holds opinions on white people that are typical of what passes for thought in academia these days. They are not unusual at all: …[Jeong’s] tweets are … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Race and racism | 17 Replies

It’s worse than you think with Ocasio-Cortez and her statement on unemployment

The New Neo Posted on July 20, 2018 by neoAugust 1, 2018

Even Politifact and FactCheck couldn’t parse Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s astonishing statement about the cause of unemployment in a way that made her look anything but ignorant on the subject. From the first site: During the interview, Ocasio-Cortez said, “Unemployment is low … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Finance and economics, People of interest | 1 Reply

A modern twist on stalking

The New Neo Posted on June 30, 2018 by neoJune 30, 2018

Stalking isn’t funny; it’s serious and frightening. And this University of Central Florida professor who stalked a PhD student sounds remarkably obsessive about it: Ali Borji, a 39-year-old assistant professor in the school’s Department of Computer Science, was arrested at … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Men and women; marriage and divorce and sex | 12 Replies

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