… this is from March of 2020, I would guess that more of the “enlightened” in the academy have declared their allegiance to Chinese policies since last year …
I used to think I missed my calling by not getting a Ph.D. and going after a job in academia way back when. Now I feel like I dodged a bullet!
Just heard an interview of Peter Boghossian, who has now resigned from teaching philosophy at Portland State (of all the frightening places…). I don’t share all his views, but I agree with him on this: our academic institutions are irredeemably broken, and we need to build new ones.
He says he’s going to be part of some new non-woke school in Austin – a left-wing organization, I presume, but I don’t know. Regardless, I was encouraged to see somebody trying to build something new. I hope classical liberals, conservatives, and everybody else gets a move on and starts building new institutions of higher education in this country.