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The most scathing assessment of this particular brand of academic culture is to be found in Paglia’s essay ‘Junk bonds and corporate raiders: academe in the hour of the wolf’, ostensibly a review of Halperin’s book One Hundred Years of Homosexuality (1990), but really an onslaught against the insular and self-satisfied nature of this parasitic branch of the humanities. In Paglia’s judgement, Halperin’s ‘strategy of obliterating distinguished past scholarship and flooding us with minor works by callow nonentities allows him to emerge in the post-Foucault landscape as king of the pygmies’. This ...more
The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
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