Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> a lot
> of the stuff in the New York Review of Books, which he dismisses, is
> thoughtful and enlightening, too. Yeah, there's tedious crap in the
> NYRB, too, and the LRB is a lot more fun to read, but you can just
> skip the crap. And sure there are a lot of hacks and timeservers in
> the American university system, but that's true of any profession.
I agree completely, and the prof-bashing on this & other lists ticks me off royally. But for the record -- I've worked with people from quite a few different backgrounds over the years -- and the only people that I met who engaged in prof-baiting were people with college training. Perhaps the experience of others has been different but that is my experience.
Carrol