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2019-11-08 Home Front: Culture Wars

Professor who fled Romanian Communism now flees Columbia University

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-08 01:47|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Yea, well, he has a place to flee to - a lot of people don't.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-08 02:04|| 2019-11-08 02:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Alot of people can't.

Posted by newc 2019-11-08 02:06|| 2019-11-08 02:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Just passed the 30-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Maybe it's time our schools and universities had a look back and a series of, ah, teachable moments...

Posted by Lex 2019-11-08 04:01|| 2019-11-08 04:01|| Front Page Top

#4 This isn't about politics as we understand it.

It is about University politics. Serban was being pressured to do more work using minority and LGBT authors and accepting minority and LGBT assistants he considered unqualified.

Posted by lord garth 2019-11-08 08:11|| 2019-11-08 08:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Thank you for that update your Lordship. He should very obviously be tried, hung, and quartered.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-08 09:06|| 2019-11-08 09:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Not the Babylon Bee? Has it gotten that bad in universities for freedom-loving professors? He might take a look at Hillsdale College.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-11-08 11:40|| 2019-11-08 11:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Well it is the Theater Dept. The East Europeans who come here don't realize that their experience of the arts -- in Romania, Russia, Czech, Serbia, Poland etc -- has been the way the arts used to be in this country and the West generally: a serious profession, heavily dominated by straight alpha males making serious creative productions. That's how E. Europe produced a generation that included Kundera, Havel, Bondarchuk, Shostakovich et al.

That ceased to be the case at least two generations ago. I pity the East European directors, playwrights, novelists etc. They're really better off in their home countries than here.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-08 11:56|| 2019-11-08 11:56|| Front Page Top

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