I too don’t know what to say about the rest of it. It makes me sad. Some of my own colleagues have recently become aggrieved over the poor respect their students are showing their fab selves and proposed that we move institutionally toward a more disciplinary classroom regime. And I’ve said just about everything but “learn to teach” about this, eschewing that line only because I know it would be counterproductive.

Ugh, the Dartmouth thing is a real triple threat–we get American litigiousness, the inanity of victim politics, and the grammatical and intellectual poverty of (some parts of) Higher Education These Days. I wince a little to think about how kids are killing themselves to get into schools like this, to be taught by professors like this. Swarthmore has its problems, but I feel fairly sure someone who writes (and thinks!) like this would not get a job there…Right?…

I haven’t read her work, but I thought the whole pomo-science stuff went out with Sokal and Bricmont?