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Turning Critical Theory on Its Head

JL;DR SUMMARY Amidst contemporary campus protests, this analysis challenges humanities and social science faculties for neglecting to apply critical theory effectively, particularly concerning Jewish oppression and Zionism. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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ZionismJewish OppressionCampus ProtestsCritical TheoryPower DynamicsJewish EmancipationSystemic InequalityIntellectual FailureUniversity Role

Places mentioned

New York, United States
"Columbia historian Rashid Khalidi took a megaphone to his lips to proclaim it."
Iran
"Although Irans supreme leader is under no obligation to complicate students understandings of history and their own place in it, university faculty are."
Alabama, United States
"we could have introduced undergraduates to their forebears at the University of Alabama, where in 1956 white students (with faculty support) fought racial integration by burning desegregation literature,"
Chicago, Illinois, United States
"Opinion pieces in...Chicago Tribune invoked it."
San Diego, California, United States
"Consider the letter of gratitude and solidarity that faculty at UC San Diego presented to student protesters."
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
"Developed in the early-20th century by (mostly Jewish) philosophers and sociologists such as Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Reich, and Herbert Marcuse at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt,"
Vienna, Austria
"At the University of Vienna in that year, a photo was taken of a fraternity initiation."

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