{"id":258,"date":"2017-04-27T17:38:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T22:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/?p=258"},"modified":"2017-04-27T17:38:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T22:38:36","slug":"the-postmodern-intellectual-roots-of-todays-campus-mobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2017\/04\/27\/the-postmodern-intellectual-roots-of-todays-campus-mobs\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Postmodern\u2019 Intellectual Roots of Today\u2019s Campus Mobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"sub-head\">If reality is nothing but a \u2018narrative,\u2019 then of course it\u2019s important to control what people say.<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-postmodern-intellectual-roots-of-todays-campus-mobs-1490394294\">The \u2018Postmodern\u2019 Intellectual Roots of Today\u2019s Campus Mobs &#8211; WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are witnessing the second great era of speech repression in academia, the first coming during the \u201cculture wars\u201d of the late 1980s and early \u201990s. One force behind the new wave is a theory of truth, or a picture of reality, developed the first time around. This theory, which we might call \u201clinguistic constructivism,\u201d holds that we don\u2019t merely describe or represent the world in language; language <em>creates <\/em>the world and ourselves. A favorite slogan of our moment, \u201cWords have power,\u201d reflects that view.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If reality is nothing but a \u2018narrative,\u2019 then of course it\u2019s important to control what people say. \u00a0 The \u2018Postmodern\u2019 Intellectual Roots of Today\u2019s Campus Mobs &#8211; WSJ We are witnessing the second great era of speech repression in academia, the first coming during the \u201cculture wars\u201d of the late 1980s and early \u201990s. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}