Mischief Maker wrote:

At Duke, you can take "American Dreams/American Realities" (No. 11), a history course on American myths such as "a city on a hill."

So much for Ronald Reagan.

OOOOOOH!!!! DID THEY BESMIRCH REGANS NAME??? DO NOT "GO THERE," GIRLFRIEND!

Even the Shakespeare course at Occidental this semester focuses on "cultural anxieties over authority, race, colonialism and religion" during the age of the Bard.

I assume the shakespeare classes this dude took back in the good old days did not include "The Merchant of Venice," "Titus Andronicus," or, I dunno, "Othello?"

On a related note, one of my favorite undergraduate classes was my ethnic studies requirement, "history of black music." I listened to great songs, learned all about the history of jazz, funk, and hip hop, and the "text" was a huge boxed set of CDs that I still listen to.

The bigger problem is that too much of American higher education has lost any notion of what its students ought to know about the ideas and people and movements that created the civilization in which they live: Who Plato was or what happened at Appomattox.

Oh, so they've removed EVERYTHING from their philosophy department except cocks? These aren't just niche electives like "Objectivism?"

The problem that the Young America's Foundation list, first issued in 1995, highlights isn't simply the hollowing-out of the traditional humanities and social sciences disciplines at colleges and their replacement by crude indoctrination sessions in whatever is ideologically fashionable — although that's a serious issue.

This guy is totally overstating the liberal conspiracy. He makes it sound so much more pervasive and organized than it actually is. I consider myself a veteran of liberal causes, and this christmas I was SO trying to do my part in the glorious war against christmas. But every time I went up to one of my old contacts and said, "Happy Holidays, WINK!" They just responded in kind without any secret gestures or handshakes. What? It's not like I can't help. I'll kick the shit out of a salvation army santa, just give me the signal! Jeez!

And in keeping with my endless supply of cartoon responses: