Join HxA at Virginia Tech for their next Sunday Salon on today's culture wars. These events feature curated conversations on topics connected to higher education that revolve around selected readings ranging in topic, focus, and viewpoints. In keeping with the general theme of HxA, most of our readings will consider divergent viewpoints on a particular topic.
Readings for this months's Salon can be downloaded here:
1990_Cornel West, "The New Cultural Politics of Difference," in Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Culture, ed. Russell Ferguson et al. (Cambridge- MIT Press, 1990), 19-39.
1993_Jean Bethke Elshtain, "The Politics of Difference" in Democracy on Trial (Basic Books, 1993), 65-91.
1995_Christopher Lasch, "Academic Pseudo-Radicalism: The Charade of 'Subversion'" in The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (Norton, 1995), 176-197.
Given the fact that the salons are hosted in private homes and food is provided, please make sure you RSVP to Austin Council at adc@vt.eduso we can expect you. Do feel free to bring a +1, friend, spouse, or colleague, just let us know how many you'll be!