"RST: Good morning, my dear hard-boiled egg. Did you have a good trip to Austin, upholding the patriarchy and extolling the manly virtues of the Western canon? EGG: You are so irritating. Old white men need to have a little space in the lexicon of human endeavors. I stand for all of them. So there!! RST: 🤮 There's been a theme in the responses I'm hearing from people about this column, and it has to do with bodily functions and fluids."
"RST: Now, let's get into majors and the siloification of knowledge. I think we can agree expertise matters and U.S. higher ed is the expert factory. We need to keep cranking out Ph.D.s with specific knowledge about things like science, medicine, history and the global and pluralistic world-all the stuff we all teach. This matters more now because we have a government that offers dangerous "advice.""
Two colleagues trade playful, sarcastic banter and emphasize friendship and humor as central to campus life. One defends preserving space for older white men and the Western canon while endorsing thick skins against campus complaints. The conversation argues that higher education must keep producing Ph.D. specialists in science, medicine, history and global studies to counter misinformation. The speakers highlight public-health consequences like measles resurgence and COVID denial and mock dangerous remedies such as horse dewormer. Humor is presented as an antidote to institutional whining and a way to call out absurdities on campus.
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