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Apparently Kavulla imagines that the course lacks diversity, but think again: he would have the opportunity to interview 24 guests, who range from billionaires to janitors; from entrepreneurs to nuns; from American leaders like Larry Summers to the Indian banker Chetna Sinha. He would engage with many more minds than he has in past classes, when he has sat through two dozen lectures by a single conservative individual...
...Surely Kavulla would profit from the readings as well. Granted that there are weeks when I assign almost 200 pages, but the richness of the material would keep him going. For example, we are about to read former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich’s new history of radical conservatives. Reich describes how these “Radcons,” as he calls them, have used backing from conservative billionaires to build up an army of broadcasters and pundits. They have thereby succeeded in mainstreaming ideas once propounded only on the extreme-right fringes of American society...
This would interest Kavulla, since he has worked hard to become—I trust he’ll take this as a compliment—our own local Rush Limbaugh, by means of his attacks on women’s studies, affirmative action, etc. He is the publisher of the Harvard Salient, which is subsidized by radical-right sponsors, but does he really want to be seen in such company...
With a friendly eye to his future success, Kavulla should be alerted that he may be picking up a bad habit from Limbaugh: a disregard for factual accuracy. He charges me with contributing to grade inflation, but the average grade in my most recent large lecture course, Religion 1528, “Globalization and Human Values,” was identical to the mean for my department and well below the Harvard humanities average. The Office for Undergraduate Education periodically sends out a graph of this information, which is publicly available...
...Facts are stupid things,” Ronald Reagan famously misspoke, but Kavulla would have to check his if he wrote the 27 assignments required for my course. The essay questions are focused on the readings and interviews, and are followed by a final exam...