Monday, October 15, 2007
Michael Moore is Fat, Stanley Fish version
by Ken Houghton
but makes a point that Bruce Bartlett (via DeLong) appears to have missed:
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Stanley Fish tries to be fair and balanced:
At least as an on-camera presence, Maloney is polite, unflappable and relentless. He borrows some techniques from Michael Moore, but rather than resembling a giant donut, Maloney has the lean boyish looks that could earn him a role in “Oceans 14″ alongside Brad Pitt and Matt Damon. So when he ambles into a university office in search of an administrator who will explain why there is no Men’s Resource Center at a university where The Women’s Resource Center flourishes, a viewer is likely to ask, Why won’t they even talk to that nice young man? [emphasis Fish's; underscore mine]
but makes a point that Bruce Bartlett (via DeLong) appears to have missed:
Political diversity (a more honest label for what Maloney, following David Horowitz, calls “intellectual diversity”) means that in terms of its partisan affiliations, a university faculty should look like America and display the same balance of Democrats and Republicans as can be found in the country’s voting rolls. But this requirement of proportional political representation makes sense only if you can predict what and how a professor teaches from his or her partisan identification: absent such a correlation, the political makeup of the faculty is not a legitimate pedagogical concern.
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Labels: Academia, Brad DeLong, Politics
