The New York Times looks at Obama's twelve-year stint as a professor, including copies of his syllabi and final exams.
I'm quite aware that there are plenty of people out there in Anti-Intellectual America for whom an article like this is a huge turn-off—but for me and my blogging cohort of over-educated literary theory PhDs it's a very big deal, as close as we may ever come to seeing one of our own in charge...
Via MeFi.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Posted by Gerry Canavan at 9:09 PM
Labels: academia, America, anti-intellectualism, Barack Obama, blogs, general election 2008, over-educated literary theory PhDs, politics
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