PrintMay 8, 2008
Lost in the Groves of Academia
K.C. Johnson is critical of Duke professors' efforts to justify the contemptible behavior of the Gang of 88 in the Lacrosse case outrage . He's always worth reading, but, a professor himself, the first graph of his post is a wicked but accurate description of what is going on these days in academia:
Wahneema Lubiano, whose last scholarly publication was entitled "Interview with Wahneema Lubiano," recently took a break from her two "forthcoming" manuscripts, Like Being Mugged by a Metaphor and Messing with the Machine. Both of these manuscripts, it's worth remembering, have now been "forthcoming" -- a designation that normally means completed and under contract -- for eleven years.
h/t: instapundit.com
