Several weeks ago I was contacted by a young man named Eddie Carson, a dean at a private school in Vermont. Somehow he had come across my autobiography, A Life in History, and had also become a fan of historyunfolding. He invited me for an episode of his podcast and we taped it last week. Here it is!
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I watched the interview with Carson.
The travails of academe often reflect to some extent the intractable and longstanding problems of the republic itself. They are often old problems, but some are relatively new. and recent.
Our country bit off much more than it could chew or digest, from the very beginning.
The problem of slavery was emblematic of unsolved problems, but with globalization and multiracial issues now having emerged and festered, things have gone from bad in the 19th C to worse in the 20th and 21st, fed by our very globalist self contradictory group identivist versus inclusivist ideology.
The discussions of your academic career struggles were interesting.
I have said before that I did not think much of Paglia, but that is not very important. Rather like referring to Harper Lee or Truman Capote, or Gore Vidal as one's literary north star, .......bad idea.
All the best
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