Europe News: A group of serving French soldiers has published a new open letter in a conservative magazine warning President Emmanuel Macron that the "survival" of
These academics have like states goals to subvert and destroy western identities.
This will never not be funny to me. I don't know how it went for academics in Europe, but I know any actual leftist academics in the US faced vicious push back/firing/threats of litigation (often from their own 'colleagues') during the Soviet Union's existence; I can't imagine it has gotten much better in the proceeding decades. And I can't imagine it was much different over there.
The last chapter of Against Empire (Imperialism in Academia) is basically just a 15 page list of all the leftist professors that were buried, starved, or fired for being leftists.
The largest public research organization in Europe - the CNRS, it's French - actually published an official statement explaining that "islamo-leftism" wasn't actually a thing, and also saying that post-colonial studies were actual valid science; that following the braindead remarks of some of Macron's ministers.
I know any actual leftist academics in the US faced vicious push back/firing/threats of litigation (often from their own ‘colleagues’) during the Soviet Union’s existence
I was in school during the Bush Era. My liberal arts professors ranged from liberal dove to Goldwater-tier crank. The closest thing to a Marxist I ever encountered was a math professor, and he was in a constant state of despair about US politics. Hardly a revolutionary actor.
This will never not be funny to me. I don't know how it went for academics in Europe, but I know any actual leftist academics in the US faced vicious push back/firing/threats of litigation (often from their own 'colleagues') during the Soviet Union's existence; I can't imagine it has gotten much better in the proceeding decades. And I can't imagine it was much different over there.
The last chapter of Against Empire (Imperialism in Academia) is basically just a 15 page list of all the leftist professors that were buried, starved, or fired for being leftists.
Yes, that's one of the sources I was thinking of
The largest public research organization in Europe - the CNRS, it's French - actually published an official statement explaining that "islamo-leftism" wasn't actually a thing, and also saying that post-colonial studies were actual valid science; that following the braindead remarks of some of Macron's ministers.
Not that the public listened of course.
I was in school during the Bush Era. My liberal arts professors ranged from liberal dove to Goldwater-tier crank. The closest thing to a Marxist I ever encountered was a math professor, and he was in a constant state of despair about US politics. Hardly a revolutionary actor.