"Donald Trump's election forced academics to confront the inadequacy of promoting social change through the traditional academic work of research, writing, and teaching. Scholars joined crowds of people who flooded the streets to protest the event. The present political moment r…
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"Willmoore Kendall was a man against the world, a "maverick," an "iconoclast," a man "who never lost an argument or kept a friend." He co-founded National Review, helped turn the word liberal into an insult, and became the chief theorist of conservative populism. Understanding K…
"Willmoore Kendall was a man against the world, a "maverick," an "iconoclast," a man "who never lost an argument or kept a friend." He co-founded National Review, helped turn the word liberal into an insult, and became the chief theorist of conservative populism. Understanding K…
"Willmoore Kendall was a man against the world, a 'maverick,' an 'iconoclast,' a man 'who never lost an argument or kept a friend.' He co-founded National Review, helped turn the word liberal into an insult, and became the chief theorist of conservative populism. Understanding K…
"We live in uncertain, troubled, inequitable, and unjust times. Threats, such as authoritarianism, oppression, and State-sponsored violence, can feel so overwhelming and daunting that students-and their professors!-may not know where to begin in confronting those threats. Mindfu…
"We live in uncertain, troubled, inequitable, and unjust times. Threats, such as authoritarianism, oppression, and State-sponsored violence, can feel so overwhelming and daunting that students-and their professors!-may not know where to begin in confronting those threats. Mindfu…
This collection immerses scholars of communication and related disciplines in narratives of and conversations about social-justice-focused activism. Through autoethnographic essays, Mindful Activism chronicles the authors' experiences as activist academics challenging and seekin…
What should be the role of our institutions of higher education? To promote good moral character? to bring an end to racism, sexism, economic oppression, and other social skills? To foster diversity and democracy and produce responsible citizens? In [the book] Stanley Fish argu…
"To promote good moral character? To bring an end to racism, sexism, economic oppression, and other social ills? To foster diversity and democracy and produce responsible citizens?" "In Save the World on Your Own Time, Stanley Fish argues that, however laudable these goals might…
What is the purpose of higher education? Here, Stanley Fish argues that, however laudable goals of fostering diversity and democracy might be, there is but one proper role for the academe in society: to advance bodies of knowledge and to equip students for doing the same.
"To promote good moral character? To bring an end to racism, sexism, economic oppression, and other social ills? To foster diversity and democracy and produce responsible citizens?" "In Save the World on Your Own Time, Stanley Fish argues that, however laudable these goals might…
If you attended a Canadian university in the past eighty years, it's possible that, unbeknownst to you, Canadian security agents were surveying you, your fellow students, and your professors for 'subversive' tendencies and behaviour. Since the end of the First World War, members…
If you attended a Canadian university in the past eighty years, it's possible that, unbeknownst to you, Canadian security agents were surveying you, your fellow students, and your professors for 'subversive' tendencies and behaviour. Since the end of the First World War, members…
If you attended a Canadian university in the past eighty years, it's possible that, unbeknownst to you, Canadian security agents were surveying you, your fellow students, and your professors for 'subversive' tendencies and behaviour. Since the end of the First World War, members…