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Wednesday, April 15, 1998
Summers on Deconstruction, FeminismChristina Hoff Summers: Well, the simple answer to your question is that, as one feminist philosopher put it, academic feminism is the intellectual arm of the women's movement and that has tended to to make it very political to the point of making it not merely political but highly partisan, representing a narrow political view point. Navarro and Steinem's New CompanionSix years removed from the Year of the Woman, it's tough going in the redoubts of radical feminism. Your favorite President since Daniel Ortega has been caught exploring a former Lewis and Clark College intern well beyond the Mississippi. CCAOD Hits the StreetsThe policy includes a new keg formula, a ban on kegs during Summer Term, stricter enforcement of the 3am closing time of social functions, harsh penalties for violation of the policy, and retains the mandate that Safety and Security take over monitoring duties. Gambling and the New Scholar-AthleteIdeally, everyone attending classes in Ithaca, or Princeton, and Hanover, is a student first and a solid point-guard or goalkeeper second. But even the Ivy League is not immune. Tanning with TrotskyI went to Club Med for a few days in January, and it struck me as being a communist state. Kind of like Warsaw on the beach, in fact. |
Decon 101: Deconstructionism in Today's Literary CriticismUntil about thirty years ago, literary criticism was literary itself. You could plop down into a hard wooden chair in any Ivy League classroom and listen to a literate, rationally constructed lecture.
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