When I read articles about liberal arts education, often written by or about frightened professors, I sometimes find myself imagining The Frightened Professor as a stock character in a horror movie. In the opening scene of Night of the Super-Woke Student Body, The Frightened Professor stands in a dimly lit room. If…
The first time I read Euripides’ Cyclops, I was a college senior, and I didn’t notice the rape joke. Maybe I was too wrapped up in graduate school applications to pay much attention; it’s probable that the rates of sexual assault on college campuses weren’t as well-known in 2006. Either way—and somewhat…
The fact that some students are requesting trigger warnings for college class materials is incredibly important and should be commended. Campuses should take them very seriously. We all should. But they are still a terrible idea.
Whether trigger warnings are useful for disturbing Internet content is an interesting question. Not interesting: one "certifiable asshole's" claim that they're just for the "easily upset."
