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Decline of the Herr Professor

The Herr professor has been caught up in a whirlwind of protest, eventually to emerge as a humble guest on a television talk show.

No Nobel prize compensates for this loss of prestige at the apex of a crumbling pyramid.

His desperate references to the false problem of “academic freedom” sound not only hollow, but like the exchanges between pagan Roman priests at magical ceremonies in whose effectiveness they no longer believed.

— Thomas Molnar, “A Sociology of Names”
Modern Age, Spring 1999
Published at 4:00 pm on Wednesday 22 June 2011. Categories: Arts & Culture Errant Thoughts Tags: .
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