Why You Don’t See The Ranter at Academic Conferences

Posted in Society and culture on Sunday, December 25th, 2005 at at 12:07 pm by TheRanter

I’ve been stuck on Intelligent Design and John Calvin lately, but actually I’m mad about a broad range of issues that go far beyond the ongoing right-wing attack on American democracy. Someday I hope to work my way through the long backlog of rants regarding academia and its ills. I came across an old paper of mine from about 1989 and my eye fell on this sentence in the introduction:

First, however, let me begin with a quick historiographical tour that, hopefully, will find the reader awake at the end of it.

Ah yes, an auspicious start to my graduate career!

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