Sisyphus and Higher Education
Those of us laboring for academic reform often feel like Sisyphus, rolling a rock up the hill only to have it come crashing down again. The gods of academe seem to have condemned higher education to inevitable decay. That thought came to me as I read about the demise of an institute (at Hamilton College) that did everything right, yet the overlords of Political Correctness purged themselves of enemies and “deviationists.” I use these terms because the notion that all-is-political, enemies-must-be-destroyed is linked so strongly to communism and its close cousin national socialism. In the above unhappy story, Mark Bauerlein...
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Tags: Academe, Academic Reform, Communism, Cousin, Decay, Demise, Hamilton College, Higher Education, Mark Bauerlein, National Socialism, Notion, Overlords, Political Correctness, Political Enemies, Rolling Rock, Unhappy Story