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The New York Times comes to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and finds that the radical professors are on their way out.

althouse.blogspot.com » 2008 » July » 3rd » The New York Times comes to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and finds that the radical professors are on their way out.

Tagged: education, blogging, science, baby boomers, pajamas media, socialism, cafe, aging, university of wisconsin

The radicals are old Boomers nearing retirement and being replaced by a younger generation: [A] Wisconsin professor, Erik Olin Wright, a 61-year-old sociologist and a Marxist theorist, described it this way: “There has been some shift away from grand frameworks to more focused empirical questions.” As for his own approach, Mr. Wright said, “in the late ’60s and ’70s, the Marxist impulse was … Continue Reading »

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