Check out Tracy Llanera and Nicholas Smith’s recent essay, “Egotism in Higher Education,” in the Cardiff University blog, Open for Debate. This essay is based on the chapter “A Culture of Egotism: Rorty and Higher Education,” The Promise of the University: Reclaiming Humanity, Humility, and Hope, ed. Áine Mahon, forthcoming with Springer. ***Excerpt*** Universities, ideally speaking, can […]
Month: August 2021
Tracy Llanera: Women, the Alt-right and the Liberal Centre
Why do women join white nationalist and other far-right movements? Misogyny is rampant on the alt-right, along with the notion that women’s primary role is to be wives and child-bearers. But the liberal centre can be an ambivalent place for women too. Feminism was founded on the ideal of equality, and on the belief that […]