Posted on 01/26/2002 12:06:52 AM PST by Doctor Raoul
Christina Hoff Sommers
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Author of Who Stole Feminism: How Women have Betrayed Women
Monday, January 28, 7:30 PM
"Resolved, That Women's Studies is Not a Legitimate Academic Discipline"
Christina Hoff Sommers is the W.H. Brady Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Chairman of the Independent Women's Forum National Advisory Board.
She is author of the recently released book The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men. She specializes in ethics and contemporary moral theory and has published many scholarly articles in such journals as the Journal of Philosophy and the New England Journal of Medicine. Sommers is editor of a popular textbook in moral philosophy entitled Vice and Virtue In Everyday Life that is used in college ethics courses around the country. Sommers became known to the wider public as the author of Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women.
She is best known for her writings on two subjects: moral education in the schools, and feminism and American culture. Her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, USA Today, the National Review, the New Republic, the Weekly Standard, the Chicago Tribune, and the Times Literary Supplement.
Sommers has appeared on Nightline, ABC's World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, Crossfire, Eye To Eye, 20/20, Inside Politics, Equal Time, Politically Incorrect, and the Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss such issues as the future of feminism and gender bias in the schools. Profiles of her have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the London Times.
Sommers earned her B.A. at New York University where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1971. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy at Brandeis University in 1979. She has been a professor of philosophy at Clark University since 1980.
Roger that. I shoot at a private range not far from where I work. We've got a number of conservachicks who pack some serious heat. All I can say is I would hate to get in their gunsights.
Good fighters if it ever came down to it.
Thanks. I needed a sign idea.
No problem, I'd like to see that sign. Some people might be a little angry, though.
Don't you just hate it when someone tells two-thirds of a good story, then leaves out the conclusion?
These people can't be re-assigned to non-damaging positions until their policy making superiors are confirmed by the Senate. So it all comes down to Daschle in the end, once again.
Andrew Sullivan is a good example.
Not for a liberal arts degree. The classical Greeks and Romans originated the concept, meaning an education to prepare someone to be a free man, able to think for themselves. 'Liberal' coming from Latin 'liber' for 'free'.
I get the impression that Insensitive Guy comes from the 'paper bag' school of improving inconvenient female appearances.
GUEST COLUMN | WAYNE HSIEH
Leftist professors blinded by ideology in terrorism debate
As a Yale College graduate in the Class of 2000 and a second-year graduate student in history at the University of Virginia, I have found the undergraduate response to our current crisis heartening. Many undergraduates have vocally supported the war effort in these pages, and I have heard that a solid, if silent, majority of the College realizes that terrorism must be crushed.
But I am dismayed by the faculty's reaction, a reaction that reflects the makeup of America's academic elite. For the last 30 years, the far left has dominated academic life in American universities, especially in the humanities. Conservatives too frequently portray the academic left as being more monolithically malignant than it truly is, but the hegemony of the left has had a deleterious affect on our universities.
And these elites have now started to lecture Americans about the evils of their country and the legitimate grievances of murderous terrorists.
Professors Donald Kagan and Steven Smith have, in these very pages, rebutted these sorts of arguments with more ability than I could ever muster, and I have nothing to add to their cogent arguments.
Instead, I hope to address those undergraduates who already recognize the merit of those arguments and who may be considering academia as a profession. Those undergraduates may feel the need to respond to their country's call, to recognize that patriotism is not a sin, and to realize that love of country is nothing to be ashamed of.
I am sure that many well-educated academics will laugh and snicker at that statement. I say to them:
Laugh all you want. Marx and Foucault may be your heroes, but I prefer older, nobler and more beautiful allegiances. Abraham Lincoln once remarked that Henry Clay "loved his country partly because it was his own country, but mostly because it was a free country." To love America is to love its noblest ideals, not some abstract political entity.
My parents brought me to this country as an infant when our native Taiwan was still ruled by an authoritarian one-party regime. They built a reasonably comfortable life here while their native land prospered and democratized under the protection of the American government.
America has its flaws, but it is easy to forget that this country has been a force for good in the world more often than not. Look at postwar Europe and Japan, at South Korea and Taiwan, at the sad record of totalitarianism in the 20th century, and tell me that America has only been a force for ill.
For those who agree with me, I want to say this:
Please, if the scholar's life fits you, enter the academy and oppose the leftists who disdain America, who fail to realize the privilege of dissent that they can only have in a society such as ours, and who advocate a policy of appeasement to terror in the name of scholarly sophistication. Raise your voice in opposition to the tenured elites who control the terms of scholarly debate.
Be willing to defy the scholarly dogmas of our day. Test our academic culture's commitment to true dissent. This is our task, our duty -- to make sure that someone will stand up for America in her universities.
Our universities are important. They educate many of our future citizens and serve as the guardians of our nation's culture and history. We cannot abandon them to our opponents.
Always remember that good scholarship rises above politics and take heart in this when you feel isolated and exposed. The most intelligent of your ideological foes will respect your work if it shows merit. Remember to do the same with their work and simply ignore all the rest who reject reason. But most importantly, always keep faith in both your convictions and your country.
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There's still hope for America, and for Yale.
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Not to change the thread subject, but I also recommend "Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences," by Judith Reisman. His studies were questionable and probably would constitute a criminal act, yet the sexual revolution enthusiasts used them to push for immoral sexual activities in this country. This book will shock you, I guarantee it.
You can get both at Amazon.
Yes, I have heard this before and my reply is the same - - these rodents should be "reassigned" to a basement somewhere. It would be far better to leave their postions vacant than to have them staffed with mischief-makers. There must be an effort to at least minimize the damage they can do until a way can be found to dump them or chase them away.
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