Who Wants These Professors?

By Mark Bauerlein| January 24th, 2019

Last year, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the industry periodical for academia, published a commentary under the title “The Whitesplaining of History Is Over.” The first sentence went like this:

When the academy was the exclusive playground of white men, it produced the theories of race, gender, and Western cultural superiority that underwrote imperialism abroad and inequality at home.

The rest of the commentary cited women and minority historians who are steadily correcting that white male supremacist record compiled by white male scholars in the past.

The author, a historian at Stanford, wanted to present the revision work taking place as a story of triumph. But as you can see from the denigrating first sentence, there is no joy in her expression. She can’t get past her own bitter resentment. As I read the piece, I didn’t quibble with the thesis. Instead, I wondered, “How many 19-year-olds want to spend 14 weeks in a class with her?”

The year before, the classics web site Eidolon published a commentary by a professor at Denison University with the headline, “We Condone It by Our Silence: Confronting Classics’ Complicity in White Supremacy.” In one paragraph, citing the “Greek Miracle” that produced the extraordinary burst of genius in the arts, philosophy, and literature, the author terms it a myth and adds:.........To Read More...

My Take - The question I have is this:  Is college revelant any longer?  The costs and the debt that follows is obscene, and that's based on corruption of the system and outright greed.  The cultural foundation is solidly leftist, irrational, misanthropic and morally defective.  Does the nation really need "higher education" any longer?  Only if it can be fixed.

The Frankfurt School mentality must be eliminated.  The leftists must be driven out.  That can only be done by ending all further funding by the public and end student loan programs.  Think about this.  What bank would loan a 17 year old kid $100, 000 dollars for anything, let alone education, especially since so many of these kids choose courses that can't earn them the money to pay it back?