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Liberal Arts: The End of the Line? A Media Case Study | Anand Kini | TEDxWesleyanU
What are the benefits of a Liberal Arts education? Is the scope of modern television as we know it going to change forever? What does it take to make the nex...
Thank you my friend MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. for posting the powerline perspective who or what killed liberal arts :-)
Liberal Arts: The End of the Line? A Media Case Study | Anand Kini | TEDxWesleyanU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa01pVjUUkU
"To be sure, back in those days the liberal arts faculty tilted left, and occasionally quite radically left, but the liberal arts enterprise was more grounded in a body of serious, if mistaken, ideas that could be contested. I’m not joking when I say I wish our universities actually still had classical Marxists on their faculties instead of postmodern nihilists. At least Marxism was based on an accessible philosophical and economic critique, and you could have a rational argument with a Marxist. Today’s postmodern academic leftists attack reason itself as a tool of power (and “white supremacy” itself), thus justifying their essentially tyrannical desires and acts. (The roots of all this is going to be the subject of this week’s Three Whisky Happy Hour podcast. Tune in tomorrow!)
And in response to my item yesterday about the cuts starting to happen to tenured faculty in the liberal arts at several universities, another reader passes along two current job ads in political science from Butler University that make the rot explicit:
The Butler University Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor with expertise in contemporary political theory. The candidate should have a strong commitment to excellent, inclusive undergraduate teaching and an active scholarly agenda. We are particularly interested in candidates whose scholarship and teaching engages critical, transnational, or global political theory beyond the conventional Western canon such as indigenous, decolonial, modernity/coloniality, Black, or Latin American political thought, and who can offer one or more courses suitable for Core Curriculum Social Justice and Diversity designation.
The Department of Political Science at Butler University invites applications for a full-time non-tenure-track lecturer for a two-year appointment with possibility of renewal. Applicants should have a strong commitment to excellent, inclusive undergraduate teaching. We are particularly interested in candidates whose teaching and scholarship engages intersectional, abolitionist, or critical historical institutional perspectives on race/ethnicity/indigeneity, gender/sexuality, and politics in the United States and potentially beyond it. The successful candidate will teach lower-level and upper-level undergraduate political science courses (including an introductory American politics survey), will contribute to the Core Curriculum, and will help build an inclusive learning environment for our increasingly diverse student population. This faculty member could choose to affiliate with the International Studies; Peace and Conflict Studies; Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and/or Science, Technology, and Environmental Studies interdisciplinary programs."
FYI LTC (Join to see)SGT Steve McFarland SFC William Farrell MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi SMSgt David A Asbury PO1 H Gene Lawrence PO2 (Join to see) SPC Nancy Greene Maj Robert Thornton SSG Robert WebsterSSG Franklin Briant TSgt David L. Sgt (Join to see) SFC Chuck Martinez PO2 Frederick Dunn SSG Michael Noll MSgt Paul Connors PO3 Phyllis Maynard SPC Diana D.
Liberal Arts: The End of the Line? A Media Case Study | Anand Kini | TEDxWesleyanU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa01pVjUUkU
"To be sure, back in those days the liberal arts faculty tilted left, and occasionally quite radically left, but the liberal arts enterprise was more grounded in a body of serious, if mistaken, ideas that could be contested. I’m not joking when I say I wish our universities actually still had classical Marxists on their faculties instead of postmodern nihilists. At least Marxism was based on an accessible philosophical and economic critique, and you could have a rational argument with a Marxist. Today’s postmodern academic leftists attack reason itself as a tool of power (and “white supremacy” itself), thus justifying their essentially tyrannical desires and acts. (The roots of all this is going to be the subject of this week’s Three Whisky Happy Hour podcast. Tune in tomorrow!)
And in response to my item yesterday about the cuts starting to happen to tenured faculty in the liberal arts at several universities, another reader passes along two current job ads in political science from Butler University that make the rot explicit:
The Butler University Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor with expertise in contemporary political theory. The candidate should have a strong commitment to excellent, inclusive undergraduate teaching and an active scholarly agenda. We are particularly interested in candidates whose scholarship and teaching engages critical, transnational, or global political theory beyond the conventional Western canon such as indigenous, decolonial, modernity/coloniality, Black, or Latin American political thought, and who can offer one or more courses suitable for Core Curriculum Social Justice and Diversity designation.
The Department of Political Science at Butler University invites applications for a full-time non-tenure-track lecturer for a two-year appointment with possibility of renewal. Applicants should have a strong commitment to excellent, inclusive undergraduate teaching. We are particularly interested in candidates whose teaching and scholarship engages intersectional, abolitionist, or critical historical institutional perspectives on race/ethnicity/indigeneity, gender/sexuality, and politics in the United States and potentially beyond it. The successful candidate will teach lower-level and upper-level undergraduate political science courses (including an introductory American politics survey), will contribute to the Core Curriculum, and will help build an inclusive learning environment for our increasingly diverse student population. This faculty member could choose to affiliate with the International Studies; Peace and Conflict Studies; Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and/or Science, Technology, and Environmental Studies interdisciplinary programs."
FYI LTC (Join to see)SGT Steve McFarland SFC William Farrell MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi SMSgt David A Asbury PO1 H Gene Lawrence PO2 (Join to see) SPC Nancy Greene Maj Robert Thornton SSG Robert WebsterSSG Franklin Briant TSgt David L. Sgt (Join to see) SFC Chuck Martinez PO2 Frederick Dunn SSG Michael Noll MSgt Paul Connors PO3 Phyllis Maynard SPC Diana D.
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PO1 John Johnson said it so well, I don't have much to add except that our employment needs have also changed and are much more tech/science than they used to be
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We did; after allowing the Saul Alinsky hippy type '60's activists, who spent 10 years in "College" learning Marxism as a way to avoid the Vietnam-era draft, to take over the higher education system and teach our children America is a terrible country. Their brainwashed disciples now teach at every level of schooling in the US, from Pre-K on up.
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SSG Robert Webster
PO2 David Dunlap - You are the one that made the comment. Interestingly it appears that you can not make the correct attribution. What is even more telling, is that you attribute the comment to a Russian General that came here to the US; it is interesting that the individual that is credited with this statement did not come to the US as a Russian General, so in that part of it you are definitely incorrect. As to that individual actually saying the statement that you are referencing, there is no direct evidence that he even said that publicly.
Like I stated-- Which Russian General was it that made the statement?
Like I stated-- Which Russian General was it that made the statement?
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SSG Robert Webster
MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi - At least you stated who made the comment that you are quoting. Isn't that also the title of one of his books?
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SSG Robert Webster
PO2 David Dunlap - Pull your head out of your 4th point of contact. Your statement is actually false and it was not said, nor said by the person that you insinuate said it. It actually happens to be American propaganda started by Ronald Reagan in 1961.
So pull your head out of where ever you have it because stupid, ignorant comments that have no basis in fact make OUR side look like fools and idiots.
And for your information the individual that purportedly said it was the Russian Premier and supposedly at the United Nations. But what is also interesting about it no one can even find an actually reference to it and he did not even write about it in his memoirs, unlike the supposed shoe pounding incident, which is a combination of several events, which he did write about.
So pull your head out of where ever you have it because stupid, ignorant comments that have no basis in fact make OUR side look like fools and idiots.
And for your information the individual that purportedly said it was the Russian Premier and supposedly at the United Nations. But what is also interesting about it no one can even find an actually reference to it and he did not even write about it in his memoirs, unlike the supposed shoe pounding incident, which is a combination of several events, which he did write about.
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SSG Robert Webster
PO2 David Dunlap - No it did not happen in the 1930's. You are the one that needs to get a clue.
And if you are so positive that it happened in the 1930's then you should be able to easily name the General without having to look it up. I am very familiar with the quote that you are trying to state, but in the way that you are stating it, it DID NOT HAPPEN.
And if you are so positive that it happened in the 1930's then you should be able to easily name the General without having to look it up. I am very familiar with the quote that you are trying to state, but in the way that you are stating it, it DID NOT HAPPEN.
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