I’m a former student activist (in an era before trigger warnings) and now an adjunct professor. This is probably the best article on the new “culture wars” I’ve read. Donna Zuckerberg understands that students and contingent faculty are those with little power, and the university benefits if we are in conflict with…

It should but doesn’t always go without saying that, if you haven’t read something, you have no right to an opinion on its appropriateness for the classroom, particularly on the internet, where there is already so much noise

This is wonderful, thank you for sharing. So much of the discussion about this is so alarmist and polarizing. Just a couple thoughts:

As a former “Anglo-Saxonist” who left the field in 2006/2007 as a result of being emotionally and psychically abused by the field’s toxic hostility to differently-abled and differently-sexed & gendered & Other-Othered bodies, and to theoretical innovation and to anyone who was not THEM (Cambridge, Oxford, Toronto,…

I’m an Anglo-Saxonist (and actually used to be active on Jezebel a few years ago, hi to those of you who are still here), and obviously have been following this since Frantzen’s blog post first came to light. Also obviously I have Feelings and Thoughts about Frantzen, mostly involving him walking around with a…

This was a great and thought provoking article on many levels. As another former student of Ancient Greek and Latin, the following struck me:

I thought this piece was extraordinarily judicious, incisive, sensitive, compassionate to both rape victims and those falsely accused alike, free of hype, filled with just the right amount of historical detail, and uncommonly well written.

Wonderful, wonderful article!!

Eagerly awaiting all the people with poor reading comprehension who will see that Jezebel posted an essay on false allegations and immediately assume we are arguing that they are unimportant/nonexistent (despite this entire essay being written to say the opposite)—but I mainly came down here to say that I thoroughly…

Gawker, please, please, pretty please with a bow on top; WRITE MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS.

I think there are probably more false false allegations (i.e. recanted accusations where there was a real event) than false allegations.

I went through my closet looking to find a new pair of socks this morning, and to my complete surprise I found a fifth manuscript from Harper Lee. It’s clearly the original one! It’s called “The Stars are Full of Racists” and it features a cryogenically frozen Scout who is awoken in the future and has to confront the…