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Political correctness (and ACTA) revisited
Once again, Stanley Fish has dedicated a post on his New York Times blog to issues raised by ACTA. This time, it is the new book The Politically Correct University, to which we contributed a chapter. Referring to it and also the new book by American Association of University Professors president Cary Nelson, he writes:
Indeed I would welcome not only Nelson but all the contributors to "The Politically Correct University" as faculty members in my college, if I still presided over one. On the evidence of what they have written, they are capable of tempering (without abandoning) their partisan commitments in an effort to look closely and clearly at the state of higher education and propose solutions to the problems acknowledged by all parties. No one (as I have demonstrated in this column) will agree with everything these two books say, but reading them together, and in counterpoint, is a genuinely educational experience. Rather than merely cheering for your side and booing at the other, you actually learn something.
Incidentally, The Politically Correct University is the year-end gift ACTA is offering this year. That is, if you make a contribution to us of $100 or more, we will send you a copy signed by ACTA president Anne D. Neal. If you like what we're doing here and would like to see what provoked this post by Professor Fish, please donate today.
Posted by Charles Mitchell on December 01, 2009 at December 1, 2009 02:47 PM
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