Columbia University — Fascism: Aesthetics & Politics. The election of President Donald Trump has renewed interest in the examination of fascism — as an ideology, as a political movement and as a form of governance.
Cornell University — Histories of the Apocalypse. From Nostradamus to Nuclear Winter Brexit, immigration, and the election of Donald Trump have all been recently heralded as signs of an imminent apocalypse.
Dartmouth College — Democracy in the Age of Populism. After the Trump campaign, national electoral politics in the US may never be the same.
Harvard University — Journalism in the Age of Trump: Workshop. President Trump’s declared war on ‘fake news,’ his attacks on the press as “enemies of the people” as well as secular changes in technology and the ways in which the news is produced and delivered have combined to undermine the very notion of truth.
Don’t say that with a “useless degree” in some Neo-marxist sociology field you can’t get a job. Young, indoctrinated Ivy League princelings are often still welcome into the halls of government and high finance.
I know two Ivy League kids, at Yale and Harvard, who studied gender studies and African-American studies, who both work on Wall Street.
Ironic and hypocritical on the surface, but if you understand what drives America’s elites today, its perfectly understandable
How does this translate into a job even at a lib think tank? In 8 years, Trump will be out of office and in another few years as forgotten in some ways as the great Reagan is. That is, if life in the USA continues normally.
Meanwhile, my husband is auditing classes at Faulkner University which has a Great Books program. The 18 year olds sit around quoting Locke, John Milton and Aristotle. He was seriously impressed!
I’m sure that spending four years at an Ivy League school learning to hate Trump will come in very useful to them thirty years from now.
All of these sound like one-evening sessions of classes you could attend for free at the community center, alongside wet-on-wet painting techniques and beginning macrame.
The kids don't even know what Fascism and the Nazis were REALLY and I doubt these classes teach what the facts really are about anything in the course titles !
All this crap is, is pure BRAINWASHING PROPAGANDA!
The Dartmouth course does not seem bad or anti-Trump, at least it sounds like a legitimate angle of inquiry...
Personally, if they are going to call you a racist, and they believe your a racist, act like one. Get the FBI to raid thei houses and throw them in jail for no real crimes. Mueller is a pro at it, yet it’s Trump that’s the facist
I think we have a cadre of FReepers who have been taking these courses....and liking them.