thecultofcelebrityprofessors翻譯(文件)
【正文】 a firstrate study of the Founding Fathers, told the students that he had fought in Vietnam when the closest he came to bat was sitting in a university library. Or take hypocrisy. Paul krugman, a professor of economics at Princeton University, used his column in the New York Times to Savage the Bush administration for its links to Enron, when the fearless professor had himself received ＄37,500 from the energy firm. Or take general flatulence. A squabble between Larry Summers, Harvard’s bative new president, and Cornel West, a professor of black students , alerted the world to the latter’s recent work, which turns out to be a mixture of poststructuralist mumbojumbo, religious rhetoric and rap music. More should be expected from one of only 17 people to hold the exalted title of university professor at Harvard.Is this a case of a few bad apples? In public intellectual (Harvard University Press) Richard Posner, a federal judge, argues that it is the whole barrel. Although the book looks at all sorts of thinkers(not just whorish academics),Mr. Posner suggests that celebrity professors owe their influence to a fraud. They build their reputations tilling some minuscule academic field, and then pontificate on Charlie Rose about everything under the sun.All true. Yet the judge, himself a leading intellectual for hire, is a little too harsh. Each celebrity professor may be a nauseous beast. Yet there are two big arguments in favor of what they do. Most obviously, they help to circulate ideas. They give educated laypeople a chance to get their information from r
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