OK, I promise that this blog will not turn into “I Make Jokes About the University of Austin All the Goddamn Time”. Probably. But, hey, this is funny: Exactly a week after former New York Times opinion columnist Bari Weiss unveiled the creation of a hypothetical new “university” stacked with advisers united by “a common…
Tag: academic freedom
Michael S. Roth, president of Wesleyan University, giving a remarkably convincing impression of a pompous ass
Yeah, Pres Roth has a post up in Politico, commenting on the plans for a new school “the University of Austin”, whose perhaps not overwhelming prospects I commented on here last week. Yet I gave a pretty hearty thumb’s up to new Austin pres Pano Kanelos’ harsh words regarding the curse of political correctness that…
I invented that! Well, sort of.
Over at Bari Weiss’ substack blog, Common Sense, Pano Kanelos, former President of St. John’s College and now newly minted President of the newly minted University of Austin, explains his game plan: We Can’t Wait for Universities to Fix Themselves. So We’re Starting a New One. There is a gaping chasm between the promise and…