Should there be “trigger warnings” for artwork?
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Traditionalists like Edward Feser and David Bentley Hart often disagree, but respectfully. The rest of academia should take note.
Located just north of Atlanta, Kennesaw State University is a school enrolling some 35,000 students. Arguably, the most noteworthy thing about it is the fact that its officials keep making decisions that land it in court.
The real difference the large suburban school brings about is a general flattening of the culture. Everything that gives an individual a community becomes superficial.
You can tell the campus free-speech crisis is breaking into mainstream consciousness by the increasingly frantic efforts to deny it exists. Recent pieces by Matthew Yglesias, Jeffrey Sachs, and Andrew Hartman say the so-called campus free-speech crisis rests on a series of isolated shout-down anecdotes contradicted by opinion surveys showing broad student support for free speech. Besides, we’re told, today’s controversies aren’t much different than the ones that stirred public concern at the start of the campus “culture wars” three decades ago.
The Left need not depend on sociology and women’s studies faculty to radicalize our children; it’s being done quite effectively in student centers and residence halls.
Privilege talk forms an integral part of the worldview that contemporary colleges propagate, and that students often fiercely advance and defend on their campuses — and the more elite the college, the more aggressive the defense.
With roots dating back to our Founding, America’s urban-rural split is wider than ever.
By now, most Americans are aware of the widespread waste and decadence at many private and public universities… But those well-publicized cases, problematic as they are, can be easily addressed by parents and students who pay tuition and by legislators who control the purse strings.
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