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Academia, the publishing industry, Jason Arday, bullshit artists, and the 80s cult classic About Last Night

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Satirical curriculum vitae for Dr. Barnaby “Pub or Perish” Higginbotham listing publications, degrees, grants, accolades, and teaching; a stressed scholar sits at a desk surrounded by books.

Some of us know the type. Like Bernie Litgo in the movie adapted from David Mamet’s play, they spin wild tales for our amusement, but in academia and publishing, fact is supposed to be far more important than fiction, and processes are said to be in place to ensure only facts get published. In the… Continue reading Academia, the publishing industry, Jason Arday, bullshit artists, and the 80s cult classic About Last Night

J.K. Rowling isn’t the first artist to be targeted for a lack of ideological purity

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Long before Donald Trump arrived on the scene, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and screenwriter David Mamet declared that he was no longer a braindead liberal. Then as now, progressives responded by claiming he sucked all along. As a conservative, I have long resigned myself to the reality that the great majority of my artistic and… Continue reading J.K. Rowling isn’t the first artist to be targeted for a lack of ideological purity