[lbo-talk] On the Limits of Rhetoric

[Dennis Redmond]

> The verbiage/obfuscation that has come out of academia in the last
> thirty years has depressed the level of writing (and intelligence) and
> removed the ideal of a common public discourse from our consciousness.
>  It has narrowed both discourse and audience. No giant stands on the
> many bowed shoulders of academicians chasing stardom or tenure in the
> last thirty years.

The great ones never run after tenure per se. But it's hard to imagine the
magnificent work of Pierre Bourdieu, Fredric Jameson, Stuart Hall and Dai
Jinhua without mass university systems to teach in.

-- DRR