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The Marketplace of Ideas at The Times of Israel

We are talking about they satanic verses by salman rushdie. joining me to discuss as the authors, friend professor homey kay bob who was supposed to be on tour the russia right now. professor bob is also professor of humanities, english and comparative at harvard. the author of numerous works, exploring cultural change, colonial and postcolonial theory. professor, good to see you and thank you for being with us. >> great to be with you. >> you and salmon are in the middle of a three-day conversation series, you are suppressed banning to l.a. next week. he is your friend, you've known him for a...

Julien Bobineau’s profile on The Conversation

In the ideological disciplines—the humanities and social sciences—it is rare to come across a theoretical work that doesn’t seem to fetishize verbiage and jargonizing for their own sake. From the relatively lucid analytical Marxism of an Erik Olin Wright ((See Russell Jacoby’s savage review of Wright’s Envisioning Real Utopias entitled “Real Men Find Real Utopias,”

Critical Race Theory Should Not Have the Only Seat at the Table There’s no greater demon these days than Critical Race Theory (CRT), a field of criticism devoted to understanding the ways in which racism has systematically harmed people of color. Or at least that’s how it would seem, judging by the number of op-eds and media discussions from both conservative and liberal sources that regularly denounce it. It’s infiltrating our schools, we’re told. It’s quickly becoming the primary ideology that undergirds all of our most sacred American institutions, from schools to businesses to...