Taki's Daily Blog
What did I learn from 8.5 years of graduate school in Creative Writing and English? Apart from useful stuff like how to structure a commercial screenplay, I realized that literature departments are where bad ideas go to die. That’s what I read between the lines of Russell Jacoby’s recent lament in the Chronicle of Higher Education: How is it that Freud … [Read More]
On July 3 the New York Times published a feature article by Patricia Cohen bearing the provocative title “The’60s Begin to Fade as Liberal Professors Retire.” It seems, according to this report that professors are beginning to view themselves as “moderates.” This underscores their distance from their predecessors of the late 1960s, when my own academic career was launched. Back then … [Read More]
I’ve written elsewhere about the gut-wrenching smugness of Stanley Fish, who after having spent a career destroying the study of the humanities at major American universities (especially Duke), has now established himself as an avuncular observer of the education scene at the New York Times. And he wears a different mask; emulating the studied “objectivity” of the Times, he now makes … [Read More]
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