Today's Blog of the Day is Erin O'Connor's Critical Mass

Erin is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her blog focuses on the world of higher education, with particular attention to the decline of quality scholarship in the humanities, along with the spread of the monoculture of "political correctness", where diversity of color trumps diversity of ideas, sensitivity to emotions is valued over intellectual inquiry, and free speech is suppressed in the name of tolerance. From skewering the University of California's attempt to outlaw romance between faculty and grown-up students to defending students who are harassed by administrators for passing out leaflets for Republican speakers, Erin can always be counted on to deftly and eloquently challenge the academy to a better job of upholding its own stated ideals.

Keep up the good work, Erin, and if you're ever in Seattle, I'd be honored to buy you a beer or other beverage of your choice.

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