Len Gutkin
@GutkinLen
Followers
2K
Following
3K
Media
46
Statuses
3K
Senior Editor @ChronicleReview. Author of *Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present* @uvapress.
Baltimore/DC
Joined December 2016
Grateful to have the chance to expatiate on activism and scholarship in the newest Social Research:
Here's what's in the issue. Read in full at
0
10
32
RT @EmmaJanePettit: There's a rift among higher-ed critics who generally agree the sector is too aligned with the political left. First, a….
chronicle.com
The Manhattan Institute and the Heterodox Academy disagree on whether higher ed can reform itself.
0
10
0
RT @daniel_dsj2110: Daniel Bell was right about this:. "I think, given the history of Western culture, that a large substratum of society….
0
5
0
RT @chronicle: Opinion | Propaganda and education are two different things.
chronicle.com
Indoctrination is not education.
0
1
0
RT @GutkinLen: Antisemitism Here/Now's simplistic approach to enormously complex histories is at odds with the mission of the university: t….
chronicle.com
Indoctrination is not education.
0
1
0
Antisemitism Here/Now's simplistic approach to enormously complex histories is at odds with the mission of the university: to teach, not to indoctrinate. Beyond the Headlines: Anti-Muslim, Anti-Arab, and Anti-Palestinian Biases is an even worse offender:
chronicle.com
Indoctrination is not education.
1
1
3
Sounds like an interesting paper in social epistemology; looking forward to reading.
"questioning DEI policies, previously unthinkable among liberals, may become a topic open for reflection and potentially changing one’s mind"
0
0
2
RT @GutkinLen: It is hard not to hear, in Groves’s blithe assurance that he and his fellow administrators “police” their professors, someth….
chronicle.com
Plus: Incompetence vs. ideology in the classroom.
0
3
0
RT @CharlieTyson1: I spent 2 weeks reporting on a federal trial challenging Trump's deportations of students. It was a wild ride: DOJ law….
chronicle.com
Two weeks in a Boston courtroom underscore the perils of intellectual life in America.
0
8
0
Simply a must-read piece of reporting:.
I spent 2 weeks reporting on a federal trial challenging Trump's deportations of students. It was a wild ride: DOJ lawyers citing Kierkegaard, secret documents, & revelations about ICE's internal processes. I went long for the @chronicle:
0
1
0
For the @ChronicleReview / @chronicle, @CharlieTyson1 watched AAUP v. Rubio unfold. Here's what he saw:
chronicle.com
Two weeks in a Boston courtroom underscore the perils of intellectual life in America.
0
1
2
RT @j_amesmarriott: Been on a streak of great history books recently. This was just fantastically good - a cultural and social history of t….
0
207
0
RT @John_Attridge: My friend is a French aristocrat, highly cultured, luxurious Paris apartment, jewel-encrusted tortoise. Legit does not….
0
49
0
Looking forward to reading this:.
"academics in the humanities display more toxic language than those in other fields, suggesting that toxicity is more prevalent in the humanities. our findings echo concerns about ideological bias in social media, where progressive voices tend to dominate".
0
0
3
RT @nybooks: Albert Barnes had a “paradoxical belief in an aesthetic democracy for the privileged few,” Ruth Bernard Yeazell writes. “[He]….
nybooks.com
Even as he assembled a world-class art collection, Albert C. Barnes always saw himself as an embattled underdog.
0
6
0
RT @chronicle: Opinion | The dean of a popular great-books program was ousted. What does this mean?
chronicle.com
Plus: Update on a fired Michigan DEI director.
0
2
0
RT @kewhittington: My new article on the First Amendment & academic freedom problems with diversity statements in faculty hiring is now out.
0
10
0
It is hard not to hear, in Groves’s blithe assurance that he and his fellow administrators “police” their professors, something more intrusive than the rhetoric of academic rights and responsibilities.
chronicle.com
Plus: Incompetence vs. ideology in the classroom.
1
3
8
New in the Review: Columbia Law's David Pozen on regulation-by-deal:
chronicle.com
This sets a dangerous new precedent in how higher ed is regulated.
0
0
0
RT @ashleytrubin: I went back and read this fantastic 2016 Chronicle article bc I keep thinking about it. I realized its discussion of "wil….
0
1
0
RT @radical__middle: Great review-essay by Scott Crider of Steven Monte's book THE SECRET ARCHITECTURE OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS. Required r….
0
10
0