Notes on a University Student Questionnaire
What university ephemera can tell us about how academia sees itself.
Author: Rufus F.
“You must have no masters, for you are a master”
What do you say to your young aspiring writer friend who just wrote The Sun Also Rises?
Over at the Partially Examined Life
yours truly rereads Nietzsche and wonders if we suffer from too much or too little historical awareness…
My Friend with the Midlife Crisis
“With quiet men, it’s easy to forget that they have the same endless monologue of doubt and hope and sadness and fear running in their heads that the rest of us do.”
Please Lower the Authorial Voice
Rufus returns after a long summer of overwork to gripe about recent gripe-u-mentaries and rhapsodize on a beautiful piece of art disguised as a documentary about harvest paintings.
“A Tsunami of Instrumental Rationality”: Henry Giroux Interview Pt. 2
Continuing with our discussion of the market-driven university, we discuss whether the right and the left can be mobilized around this issue.
Lend a hand?
An old friend of the site’s best friend needs medical support and it probably won’t be cheap.
For your Partial Consideration…
Here’s “What Can this Lost Generation Learn from the Last One?” a piece I wrote for The Partially Examined Life, a highly recommended philosophy blog and podcast.
“An attack on the Social State”: Henry Giroux Interview (Pt.1)
A passionate discussion with critical theorist, writer, academic, and teacher Henry Giroux about his book “Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education” and what’s being done to universities in the age of “crisis” and “austerity”.
A Modest Proposal for the Police
Certainly, police work is stressful and dangerous. So is being arrested. Police officers need to experience being on that side of the equation.
How do Lawyers have Sex?
When we discussed Laura Kipnis’s article on “sexual paranoia” in academia here, most thought she was off base. Well, rest assured,
Punk Rock History’s Not Where I Wanna Be
The punk activist scene in DC of the heady 80s and 90s is apparently inspirational to many people today. I was there and I’m still trying to figure it all out. Passing into history is strange.
