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Dr. Biden and Mr. Epstein: On Academic Titles and Academic Freedom

BY JOHN K. WILSON The outrage machine against “cancel culture” has already been put into full motion with Joseph Epstein, an emeritus lecturer at Northwestern University who retired from the English Department almost 20 years ago but still manages to annoy people with his rather stupid op-eds in the Wall Street Journal. The latest essay…

December 15, 2020 in Free Speech, Gender Equity.

Notes on Joseph Epstein’s Teaching Style as Described by Himself in the Wall Street Journal

BY STEVEN LUBET Best known as an essayist and short-story writer, and former editor of The American Scholar, Joseph Epstein retired in 2002 after 30 years in the English Department at Northwestern University.  As an emeritus lecturer, however, he still receives university announcements, which recently led him to complain about a decline in teaching standards.…

September 14, 2020 in Teaching.

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