Western Civ, the Economics of Slavery, and Intellectual Diversity
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February Newsletter
Western Civ, the Economics of Slavery, and Intellectual Diversity
** Featured Articles
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January 24, 2020
** The Lost History of Western Civilization ([link removed][UNIQID])
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Stanley Kurtz
The Lost History of Western Civilization is a wide-ranging consideration of the academy’s role in producing America’s contemporary political and cultural divisions. The report traces the ways in which the 1988 controversy over the teaching of Western Civilization at Stanford set the pattern for today’s “Cold Civil War.”
The report is also an extended case-study in the follies and limitations of deconstructionist, multiculturalist, postmodern, and intersectional thinking. The report refutes a landmark scholarly “deconstruction” of Western Civilization, throwing new light on American history and exposing the incoherence of academic postmodernism in the process.
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February 20, 2020
** The Economics and Politics of the 1619 Project ([link removed][UNIQID])
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Peter Wood, Phil Magness, Robert Cherry
Robert Cherry and Phil Magness join Peter W. Wood to discuss the 1619 Project, including its dubious portrayal of the economics of American slavery.
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February 19, 2020
** The Economist Tries to Mislead about Liberal Bias in Academia ([link removed][UNIQID])
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Sumantra Maitra
The Economist claims that "There is scant evidence to suggest that academic elites push a left-wing agenda onto their impressionable young pupils"—Sumantra Maitra disagrees.
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February 14, 2020
** Missouri and Iowa Legislators Introduce Campus Intellectual Diversity Bills ([link removed][UNIQID])
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Two more states have joined Arizona in introducing campus intellectual diversity legislation modeled after Stanley Kurtz’s Campus Intellectual Diversity Act.
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February 14, 2020
** The Thousand Traitors Program ([link removed][UNIQID])
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John David
Harvard's Charles Lieber is suspected of accepting millions from China in exchange for secret research and then lying about it to the FBI.
** Announcements
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** Job Posting: Associate Professor or Full Professor Department Chair, Communication Studies at TTU ([link removed][UNIQID])
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Texas Tech University’s Department of Communication Studies is seeking applicants for the position of chair of the department. This is a full-time tenured position at the rank of associate or full professor status.
** Events
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** Event: “All the King's Horses and Men: The Royal Stables of Renaissance Spain” ([link removed][UNIQID])
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Join us for a lecture and Q&A with First Things magazine on Thursday, March 19, at their editorial offices in Manhattan.
** Member Publications
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** Jacob Howland
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"Odysseus Against the Matriarchy. ([link removed][UNIQID]) "
Claremont Review of Books 19.4. Fall 2019, 98-102.
"Borges’s Mirror. ([link removed][UNIQID]) "
The New Criterion. October 2019, 13-18.
"‘Love Between Writers’: Saul Bellow and Bette Howland. ([link removed][UNIQID]) "
Jewish Review of Books 10.2. Summer 2019, 39-41.
"Corporate Wolves in Academic Sheepskins, or, a Billionaire’s Raid on the University of Tulsa. ([link removed][UNIQID]) "
The Nation. June 2019.
"Storm Clouds Over Tulsa: Inside the Academic Destruction of a Proud Private University. ([link removed][UNIQID]) "
City Journal. April 2019.
"Prophecies of Democratic Leveling. ([link removed][UNIQID]) "
The New Criterion. March 2019, 19-25.
** Philip Carl Salzman
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"The Campus Tendency to Extremism ([link removed][UNIQID]) "
Minding the Campus. December 2019.
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