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From: Len Gutkin
Subject: The Review: A hostile takeover at Carnegie Mellon?
If you’re eager to learn more about Carnegie Mellon University’s well-known Ph.D. program in literary and cultural studies and you hop over to their
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If you’re eager to learn more about Carnegie Mellon University’s well-known Ph.D. program in literary and cultural studies and you hop over to their website, you’ll be greeted with a block of disappointing text:
What’s going on? Literature is out; computation is in. Some faculty, alumni, and students aren’t happy about it. Read Sheila Liming and Catherine A. Evans on “A Coup at Carnegie Mellon.”
Last week, my colleague Evan Goldstein and I spoke with the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah about diversity, pluralism, politics, religion, and whether new forms of intolerance have constrained discussion of some topics in philosophy (the answer: yes). Read “The Professor of Pluralism.”
And a quick note: This is the last newsletter of the year. You’ll hear from me again on Monday, January 5.
Write to me at len.gutkin@chronicle.com.
Yours,
Len Gutkin
