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The 2021-22 season of the Great Falls Forum is set to continue at noon Thursday, Feb. 17, with a talk by Bates College Professor Stephanie Kelley-Romano. “Conspiracy Theories: Why, How, and What To Do,” a free, public program, will take place virtually via Zoom and streamed to the Lewiston Public Library Facebook page, according to […]
Health communication scholars at UD investigate attitudes, demographics
Violence against people of Asian descent has long been a part of American history, but it’s been especially vicious during the Covid pandemic. “A man was
Copenhagen 2018 / Bigstock The toxic ideas that have corrupted today’s universities all began as tiny, obscure musings before escaping from the laboratories. They may have started with an unpublished paper or two, a request for modest institutional funding, or an informal discussion group. Eventually, they earn a panel at a regional disciplinary convention and an experimental course. In a few years, the “little idea” has metastasized into a full-blown intellectual plague. Particularly disturbing is that the intellectual soundness of this “little idea” has no relationship to its bu...
January 19, 2021 A political science professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign warns about a new “intellectual plague” that could take over universities. “The toxic ideas that have corrupted today’s universities all began as tiny, obscure musings before escaping from the laboratories,” Robert Weissberg ( right) wrote in an essay for Minding the Campus. He said the next disease to worry about is the proliferation of programs in “hate studies.” “This incipient plague embraces the very essence of totalitarianism—the criminalization of thinking,...