The American Dissident: December 2024

A Forum for Vigorous Debate, Cornerstone of Democracy

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A FORUM FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND VIGOROUS DEBATE, CORNERSTONES OF DEMOCRACY
[For the journal--guidelines, focus, etc.--go to www.theamericandissident.org. If you have questions, please contact me at todslone@hotmail.com. Comments are NOT moderated (i.e., CENSORED)!]
Encouraged censorship and self-censorship seem to have become popular in America today. Those who censor others, not just self, tend to favor the term "moderate," as opposed to "censor" and "moderation" to "censorship." But that doesn't change what they do. They still act as Little Caesars or Big Brother protectors of the thin-skinned. Democracy, however, demands a tough populace, not so easily offended. On this blog, and to buck the trend of censorship, banning, and ostracizing, comments are NEVER "moderated." Rarely (almost NEVER) do the targets of these blog entries respond in an effort to defend themselves with cogent counter-argumentation. This blog is testimony to how little academics, poets, critics, newspaper editors, cartoonists, political hacks, cultural council apparatchiks, librarians et al appreciate VIGOROUS DEBATE, cornerstone of democracy. Clearly, far too many of them could likely prosper just fine in places like communist China and Cuba or Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Russia, not to mention Sweden, England, and Austria.
ISSUE #47 PUBLISHED MAY 2024. NOW SEEKING SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUE #48.

More P. Maudit cartoons (and essays) at Global Free Press: http://www.globalfreepress.org

Saturday, December 21, 2024

Sara Custer Inside Higher Ed

Below is the front cover aquarelle for issue #48, the latest issue published October 2024. Needless to say, Sara Custer and Inside Higher Ed did NOT respond to the email (see below) and front cover sent to them. Thus is the state of vigorous debate, cornerstone of democracy, in the realm of higher education...

From: George Slone <todslone@hotmail.com>

Sent: Sunday, May 5, 2024 8:05 AM

To: sara.custer@timeshighereducation.com <sara.custer@timeshighereducation.com>; sara.custer@insidehighered.com <sara.custer@insidehighered.com>; Doug Lederman <doug.lederman@insidehighered.com>; scottjaschik@hotmail.com <scottjaschik@hotmail.com>; scott jaschik <scott.jaschik@insidehighered.com>

Cc: kathryn.palmer@insidehighered.com <kathryn.palmer@insidehighered.com>; elizabeth.redden@insidehighered.com <elizabeth.redden@insidehighered.com>; jessica.blake@insidehighered.com <jessica.blake@insidehighered.com>; dari.gessner@insidehighered.com <dari.gessner@insidehighered.com>; publishing@insidehighered.com <publishing@insidehighered.com>; editor@insidehighered.com <editor@insidehighered.com>

Subject: Custer, Lederman, Jaschik satirized in a new P. Maudit aquarelle

To Ed-in-Chief Sara Custer, Ex-Ed-in-Chief Doug Lederman, and Ex-Ed-in-Chief Scott Jaschik:

You have been satirized in a new P. Maudit aquarelle (see attached). If there is an untruth in it, please do let me know, so that I might adjust the aquarelle. That said, shouldn’t rare hardcore critics be permitted to voice their views in higher ed today? I think you guys could use a satirical cartoonist, someone who dares criticize the higher ed honchos at the helm… like you. Hey, I’m actually available to fill such a position! In that light, I attach my Curriculum Mortae. Anyhow, please do share the aquarelle with your colleagues and please do publish it in Inside Higher Ed. Thank you for your hopeful attention!

Au plaisir,

G. Tod Slone (PhD—Université de Nantes, FR), aka P. Maudit, Founding Editor (1998)

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