combined with time's article on the upswing of campus conservatives (a story they retell every year) this is going to give me heartburn.
conservative academics puzzle me: what's so interesting about rehashing the same questions and arguments about literature, history and science? isn't knowledge supposed to be progressive (as in, forward moving)? i guess a conservative reading of jane eyre would celebrate jane's domestication; it's a valid reading but an incredibly shallow one, considering the book's social context.
but i suppose that's the difference between conservative academics and those who aren't: context and the willingness to see it.
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