How to Get Fired at Duke: Publishing fake history is fine, but don’t make students feel uncomfortable

How to Get Fired at Duke: Publishing fake history is fine, but don’t make students feel uncomfortable..

Another of the many sad statements about the state of intellectual affairs in higher ed today.

There’s a particular irony if Duke is sacking Mr. Charney for offending some students by addressing a topic related to race. Regular readers may recall that this is the same university that employs Nancy MacLean, who published the bogus claim that the late Nobel Prize-winning economist James Buchanan, who contributed to an anti-segregationist newspaper, was the author of a “diabolical” plan to favor rich white people. One of her own colleagues on the Duke faculty called her book containing this smear “a work of speculative historical fiction.”

Submitted April 24, 2019 at 04:17PM by CarboElectricBike http://bit.ly/2DziLou