March 2017

The English Department attacks academic freedom again

A Faculty Senate report at Wake Forest University adopted the following resolution at a meeting last week: “Motion 2: To freeze current hiring by the Eudaimonia Institute, and cancel any internal (e.g. Eudaimonia conference) or external presentations related to the IE, and to restrict publication of material from EI until the COI committee is established

The English Department attacks academic freedom again Read More »

The Paranoid Style of the Illiberal Campus

In 1964 historian Richard Hofstadter wrote an essay for Harper’s Magazine entitled “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.” His thesis was a simple one – that American politics was “an arena for angry minds,” and that this anger often fomented “a sense heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy” among small but vocal groups of the

The Paranoid Style of the Illiberal Campus Read More »

Why are so many English & MLA faculty fomenting hostility to academic freedom?

Last Friday evening an angry mob of protesters disrupted a scheduled guest lecture by American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray at Middlebury College in Vermont. After interrupting the event and forcing Murray to deliver his talk by camera from a separate room, the mob turned physically violent. The protesters attempted to physically block Murray’s departure

Why are so many English & MLA faculty fomenting hostility to academic freedom? Read More »