All aboardAll aboardAfter experiencing government-run travel on Amtrak for 13 hours, with three overnight naps in a sitting position, Dissident Prof arrived at Union Station in Washington, D.C., around 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, February 8, to experience her first C-PAC.

Yellowstone National ParkYellowstone National ParkNo Hunting or Fishing Allowed...Another offering by Scott Herring, UC-Davis

Last summer, returning from a trip to Greater Yellowstone, I was sitting in a cramped Alaska Airlines puddle jumper, thumbing through the in-flight magazine out of simple boredom.  What I found was so memorable that I stole the magazine, and still have it.  Here was direct evidence of subject I have been thinking about often for some years: how environmentalism has ceased to have anything to do with the environment, and everything to do with making its upmarket leftist supporters feel good about themselves.

Protestors Who MatterProtestors Who MatterDissident Prof notes Time Magazine's celebration of the Protestor by its designation of the Protestor as the Person of the Year.  Some Protestors, however, are more equal than others and the U.S. media turned its gaze on the Protestor from one of the most pampered and flattered groups in history: the American college student, who ostensibly were inspired by protests in the Middle East.  The equally self-flattering media, however, little noted the assault on Poland by the communist leftovers.  Ewa Thompson, Professor of Slavic Studies, here brings us up to date on the alarming developments.

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The Wisdom of Buckley: Conservatives, Elections, and Education

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 "So very many conservatives were weaned on the delusion that we had only to nominate a sure-enough conservative to ensure a national landslide, that they cannot now look defeat in the face as indicating what in fact it is: that the majority of the American people do not, at the present time, desire a hard Conservative as President of the United States.

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Know Your Enemy: Lenin on the Role of Teachers

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“Our village school teachers should be placed on a level that has never been achieved, and can never be achieved, in bourgeois society.

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Mary's Contraries, February 7, 2012

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What we'll see at C-PAC?As Dissident Prof gets ready to head to Washington for C-PAC, she learns from a dilligent reader about Big Labor's plans to "occupy" C-PAC.  The D.C. AFL-CIO calls C-PAC an "elite conservative gathering," presumably of the 1%.

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Mary's Contraries, February 3, 2012

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Next step for college studentsMore money for mostly worthless college educations.  Always more ways to get unprepared, unmotivated college students, especially at community colleges, to avail themselves of the resources so that they will stay in college (and keep the federal aid coming in).  A study suggests requiring not only that students take remedial classes but that they avail themselves of the other remedial resources being offered, like those for test-preparation, study skills, and "student success" habits.  Next thing you know, the feds will be providing escort service from bedroom to campus, with assistance in packing book bags.

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Can We Communicate?

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Our ColloquiumOn Contemporary Academic Discourse by Ewa Thompson, Rice University

In 1990 the American philosopher Alasdair Macintyre published Three  Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopedia, Genealogy, Tradition.[i] The last chapter of this book is titled “Reconceiving the university and the lecture,”  and it ends with a proposition: in academic discourse we should “introduce” ourselves before we start speaking.

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