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This week Lucretia and I decide to take a break from our recent seminar format—in other words, no schoolwork this week—and just review some of the week’s news instead. Or perhaps we should say non-news, since most of the “news” items we review turn into examples of what’s wrong with journalism today. Call it “The Age of Al Hunt,” in homage to Evelyn Waugh’s device about “the Age of Hooper” in Brideshead Revisited, in which the increasing “sophistication” of journalists in the ordinary sense masks a near complete ignorance of history beyond the last election, a total lack of philosophical depth, an absence of literary imagination, and a scarcity of wit.
Hunt is Exhibit One this week, with a lugubrious article on how “Democrats are worried” about President Biden, not because of the substance of what he’s doing, but because those evil Republicans are able to frustrate his big, bold agenda. Like I say, they call this “journalism.”
From there were look over a couple of news items from the business world this week, again noting that they aren’t getting the full story at all. And then we end by observing how the rarified world of “diversity, inclusion, and equity” (or “DIE!” as Lucretia likes to render the acronym) reminds us of alien invasion movies. And we get in some important whisky news and cheeky reviews, just to keep current with our malts, even while we’re skipping metaphysics for once.
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Nicole Hanna Jones tenure is delayed, not denied. If she still has a job at the university, she’ll get her tenure once the heat has died down. Academic achievement and norms are not a factor in determining tenure.
Like all government programs, diversity is ironically named. Diversity isnt about encouraging diversity, but to enforce conformity.
That was excellent.
Well now we know why she didnt get her tenure:
https://www.mediaite.com/news/unc-megadonor-objected-to-nikole-hannah-jones-hiring-worried-1619-project-would-cause-needless-controversy
1 donor objected.
If this is true, I consider it possibly a good sign. The donor reportedly gave $25 million to the journalism school in the interest of promoting professional, objective journalism. Because nothing done by Hannah-Jones could conceivably be characterized as professional or objective, he was right both to object, and to be concerned about the controversy the school’s association with the hack job that is the 1619 Project would create.
If more mega donors to higher education would actually look into where their money is going and on what it is being spent, it might result in just a tiny rollback of the left’s monopoly over the modern university.
The Bill Cosby rule: Silence is consent. The 1619 project is purely a fictional propaganda effort, without any factual basis. She should be laughed off campus.