Paige Garrett

an independent mind

[Paige Garrett @paiiigegarrett]

@NoahSenthil ➡️https://t.co/3bLq19gH0e

[Paige Garrett @paiiigegarrett]

Written by the very unbiased author of Unpatriotic Civics, a textbook designed to fulfill Ohio’s civics requirement while framing the Declaration as a product of “slavery and imperial panic,” ratification as “class struggle,” and Adam Smith as a critic of capitalism

[The Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle]

Opinion: Ohio has put $59 million into civics institutes at five public universities. Now a new bill would give their directors “sole and exclusive authority” over civics courses statewide. The author argues this is a new front in curriculum politics. https://t.co/G7ZblZuMVI

[Paige Garrett @paiiigegarrett]

@NoahSenthil These programs often have a more pluralistic curricula than they’re given credit for. Take UNC’s civic center’s “Seeking a Just Life” course which assigns Plato, Nietzsche, and Marx. A promising basis for intellectual diversity!

[Paige Garrett @paiiigegarrett]

@weRessential Well said. The fierce pushback against Civic Centers just proves how vital they actually are for restoring real, open debate to higher ed!

[Paige Garrett @paiiigegarrett]

from his own blog: https://t.co/JYUuknrNU4

[Paige Garrett @paiiigegarrett]

The humanities’ greatest loss may just be the promising young scholars that leave academia rather than compromise their research to meet the prevailing identity-focused priorities

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

“My field is not just dying; it’s dead.”

—Yale historian Carlos Eire

[Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey]

61% of American undergraduate students say their "professors make their political leanings clear in how they teach."

[Paige Garrett @paiiigegarrett]

@McCormickProf ‼️
“Identity vocabulary has grown at approximately 5-8% per year after accounting for institutional differences — the fastest rate of any of the five thematic categories, implying a doubling of Identity frequency every 8-12 years.”

[Paige Garrett @paiiigegarrett]

Important to remind oneself that the consistency of "truth-seeking" language in the humanities is relative to the researcher! Uncovering the “truth” about the evils of the West still counts as "truth" to an NLP algorithm.

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

It's no secret that there is a crisis in the humanities in U.S. higher education. The American Academy of Sciences and Letters has done a great service in diagnosing the crisis in this important new report by a team of scholars led by Josiah Ober of Stanford.
https://t.co/47YL8yBHk4

[Paige Garrett @paiiigegarrett]

@CLT_Exam never felt more inadequate than seeing this at the borghese gallery at 25

[Paige Garrett @paiiigegarrett]

@FilmUpdates The biggest revelation from this film was amanda seyfried is a narcissist. Well maybe not revelation, but confirmation.

[Paige Garrett @paiiigegarrett]

@AntigoneJournal Solveig Gold 🙌

[Paige Garrett @paiiigegarrett]

The self-flagellation of classicists must stop

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

"Do not be afraid to say, in earnest, that you love Classics. Do not be afraid to say that it has value. You don’t need to qualify or justify."

Rule 1 of Solveig Gold's Ten Rules for the 21st-Century Classicist: https://t.co/1HTmQDppjy

[Paige Garrett @paiiigegarrett]

Sorry I can't make it out tonight, I already have plans

My plans: