Conversations about politics and the humanities, as they crumble around us.
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Here's the video of @AnikaFreeindeed delivering our annual Lincoln Scholars lecture at AU. Anika, thank you!youtube.com/watch?v=KipdpMXd…
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I have been called a “weak man” and a “cuck” and various other things by people in those orbits on this platform but I think I’m kind of winning here.
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SPA Prof. & Dir. of @pcd_au @Lara_Schwartz spoke to @universitybiz about the importance of encouraging civil discourse on campus. “Colleges are supposed to exist to help people get good at new college-level skills, & one of them is civic engagement.” Read: bit.ly/3BKXPpO
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Is there a term for someone who thinks:
- it is indeed a problem that conservatives are underrepresented in academia
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- complaints about 'wokeness' in academia are mostly nonsense
Is that a position we are allowed to have?
Paul Ludwig of St. John's College, Annapolis, joins Tom Merrill and Sarah Marsh to talk about The Clouds, Aristophanes' irreverent parable about how liberal education can go bad.
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Tom Merrill and Sarah Marsh discuss Jonathan Kramnick's essay "The Humanities After Covid-19" and Andrew Kay's essay "Academe's Extinction Moment: Failure, Whiskey, and Professional Collapse at the MLA."
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Leon Kass talks with Tom and Sarah about his new book Founding God's Nation: Reading Exodus. We discuss the difference between Egypt and Israel and the meaning of the plagues & the seminar as a ritual or form and the meaning of the seminar table.
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Michael Grenke joins Tom and Sarah to discuss Nietzsche and Lise van Boxel's remarkable study of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, Warspeak: Nietzsche's Victory over Nihilism, (published soon after her untimely death).
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Nick Buccola joins Tom and Sarah to talk about his book, The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, Jr, and the Debate over Race in America.
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Melvin Rogers and Jack Turner are the editors of African American Political Thought: A Collected History. Tom and Sarah talk to @MRogers097 and Turner about why American political thought is essentially bound up with African American political thought.
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David Brostoff, a student in Lincoln Scholars, the program I direct, published this essay in Compass. It started out as David's final paper for his first year seminar. Way to go, David! compassjournal.org/the-tale-…
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Sarah Marsh and Tom Merrill are joined by Michael Weinman of Bard College, Berlin to talk about why "great books" are not only for conservatives.
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Higher education is in crisis. Majors in the humanities have been in decline for many years, and universities are often criticized for being dominated by political correctness and student activism. But are these two things related?
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What did the New York Times's 1619 Project get wrong, and what did it get right? Sarah Marsh and Tom Merrill review the controversies about the 1619 Project and talk about the real complexities around slavery and race in the American founding.
What is the social tyranny of the majority and is there any way to escape it? Does Mill's Harm Principle give us useful guidance on how to resolve the tension between individual freedom and the needs of the community?
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What's working and what's not working in efforts to teach antiracism on college campuses today? Tom and Sarah discuss with Amna Khalid (author, "How Students Are Furthering Academe's Corporatization")
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@JPfefferMerrill calls for campuses that encourage civil dialogue and space for disagreement. @AmnaUncensored adds the distinction may be polarization is not the problem but the lack of space for dialogue between polarized people. Listen now at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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.@ptiatau @AmericanU Monday, Sept. 16 at 5:30 EDT
@publius57 on "The Political and Constitutional Thought of Alexander Hamilton"
Click here to learn more: american.edu/spa/pti/
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I wrote for @the_point_mag arguing that general education is the key to reviving the liberal arts. But why is it done so badly and how can it be done better? Honored to write alongside @AgnesCallard, @cwellmon, @jennfrey, @jonnythakkar and others. thepointmag.com/symposium/wh…