anti-intellectualism in the academy
Apr 27, 2009
In this morning’s NYT, there appeared this op-ed , which trots out the old, well-beaten horse that the academy is hopelessly irrelevant and poorly tuned to producing the kind of graduates “we” need, where “we” is defined as something like “people who do really important things, like closing down plants that manufacture widgets, or blowing mind-numbing sums of money in hyperinflated credit markets.” Essentially, the author, Mark Taylor, chair of religion at Columbia, argues that the system of
