by Micah Towery Academia
Humanities programs aren’t being attacked because the voters are cretinous philistines (though we poets & writers prefer to stroke our own egos in thinking so). The humanities are suffering an identity crisis and are being picked off as the weakest competitors for state funding.
Tagged as: culture wars, democratic societies, Ezra Pound, Fascism, Faustian Economics, German Research University, Harper’s, Hell Hath No Limits, individual freedom, liberal democracy, multiculturalism, myself am hell, naivety, neil postman, Patrick Deneen, Philosophers Stone, political philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, Robert Pippin, Stanley Fish, state of nature, suny albany, technopoly, The New York Times, Wendell Berry
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by Micah Towery Academia
I followed Strunk religiously until I read Geoffrey Pullum’s extensive bitchfest in the Chronicle of Higher Education about Strunk & White, and in recent years I have reconsidered my devotion.
Tagged as: comma splices, ESL, Joseph M. Williams, Korean, Mandarin, Mortimer J. Adler, Stanley Fish, Strunk & White, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace
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