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...group--called the National Association of Scholars (NAS)--was formed in 1987 to protect traditional canon from changes which would have added women and minority voices. The canon has become a symbol of embattled scholarship in the time of "political correctness...
...AIDS research, now she is doing a Pepsi commercial, now she is the dutiful wife, now she is the brazen divorcee. Serious feminist scholars defend her intelligent womanliness. Bluenoses sniff at her every bump and grind. The Vatican has denounced her. Academics spin doctoral dissertations based on her canon. The Queer Nation beatifies her. Wannabes still, well, wanna...
Allowing students to select which subjects to explore within a given discipline is far better than requiring standard introductory courses for all first-year students. Not only would a battle over the content of a "Harvard canon" be vicious, but the outcome would be undesirable. It would force students to take classes they do not want to take and read texts many of them have already read. For professors, teaching such classes would be a chore rather than a chance to teach classes in their own areas of expertise, and their teaching would be less inspired...
...company to build a clipboard computer, but earlier versions were limited in their uses. Grid, a division of Tandy, has sold 10,000 of its $2,370 GridPads to people who have to spend a lot of time filling out forms, including pharmacists, pollsters and bridge inspectors. Sony and Canon have been selling similar devices in Japan, and virtually every & other computer manufacturer is working...
...list of charges against the English department is long. One valid complaint is the department's disregard of the literature of minorities and colonized peoples. But the argument for increased representation of these literatures in the canon is complicated, and detracts from the more immediate question of the fate of American literature in academia. With the nearly catastrophic state of secondary education in America, our people are woefully ignorant of the shape of their own culture. A culture that cannot assume responsibility for itself certainly cannot assume responsibility for another. A country that cannot distinguish its intellectual history from...