Moved to Substack
Greetings Readers, I won t be posting here anymore. You can follow my new Substack, From Campus to Compound. https://josephmanson.substack.com/ Thanks for reading.
Joseph H. Manson
Social scientist. Refugee from mainstream higher education.
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To Defend Science, Let’s Jettison Ideology and Get Our Own House in Order
The Executive Council of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, an organization whose annual conference I first attended in 1995, has issued a statement in defense of science, protesting the federal research funding cuts being carried out by the Trump administration. Here is my reply: Your statement decrying the defunding of federally-supported research and rallying Continue reading "To Defend…
What’s in a (Chimpanzee’s) Name? Plenty
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental. ______________ “I’m walking on eggshells when I teach. No telling what innocent remark is going to set someone off, to report me to the Dean of DEI for racism or homophobia or whatever.” “This sort Continue reading "What s in a (Chimpanzee s) Name? Plenty"
On Leaving Philosophical Materialism (but not Evolutionary Science)
Part I: A Gut-Level Transformation Last October, I fasted during Yom Kippur for the first time since I was a teenager. I’ve joined a synagogue, where I sometimes attend Shabbat morning services. I’ve stopped eating pork. Almost every day, I read some of the Hebrew Bible (aka the “Old Testament”), with the help of Meir Continue reading "On Leaving Philosophical Materialism (but not Evolutionary…
Among the Academic “Anywheres”: Illusions of Belonging
“I have three passports.” A visiting speaker at UCLA, where I was a professor of anthropology from 1994 until this year, made this comment in 2019 at a dinner attended by faculty and graduate students. He named the three countries that had issued his passports. They are wealthy and they span the same ocean – Continue reading "Among the Academic “Anywheres”: Illusions of Belonging"
Corrections to “Why I’m Leaving the University”
Responding to emails from well-informed readers: Gordon Klein was suspended, not fired. The facts of the Keith Fink case are not established. They are a matter of ongoing dispute. The link in my original post presented only Fink’s side of the story.
Why I’m Leaving the University
I’m a professor, retiring at 62 because the Woke takeover of higher education has ruined academic life. “Another one?” you ask. “What does this guy have to say that hasn’t already been said by Jordan Peterson, Peter Boghossian, Joshua Katz, or Bo Winegard1? There s only one way to find out. Defenestration of a Colleague I’ve Continue reading "Why I m Leaving the University"