Why Are Liberal Girls So Sad?

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - For a long time now, I have thought there was something unhealthy about Williams College. I know while I taught there two of my fellow professors committed suicide. 

More recently, one transgender professor was caught walking in the streets naked in the midst of a psychotic breakdown. It is a weird place, with a tight culture, that rewards the most extreme liberal nonsense. It makes sense to me that Williams College makes its student mentally ill. 

Here is a great article about why leftism undercuts one of the few techniques known to combat depression and anxiety. It is called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT and it works like a charm. 

The gist of the article is that leftist thought is the reverse of CBT in that it makes depressed and anxious people more depressed and anxious. Even worse, it rewards people for engaging in self-destructive behavior. 

The article is by John Haidt and it is called, Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest: Evidence for Lukianoff’s Reverse CBT Hypothesis. You can read it yourself in Haidt's substack blog, After Babble. 

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia, and WND.

Anti-Racist Über Alles: Williams College Advertises Woke Job Teaching German

 

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - The woke madness at Williams College knows no rational boundaries. Conservative critics of the institution are amused at a recent job ad for a position in the department which apparently shows little interest in one's ability to teach German and overwhelming interest in squeezing as much woke ideology as possible into the curriculum. 

Here is the text from the actual job advertisement: 

The Williams College Department of German & Russian is excited to invite applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of German, beginning Fall 2023. 

The successful candidate will join a growing, dynamic program that is committed to inclusive and anti-racist pedagogy, to decolonizing and expanding the field of German Studies, and to working across disciplines. Specialization is open, with a particular interest in candidates who work in the areas of migration, race and anti-racism, post- and decolonial approaches, disability, and/or memory studies. 

Excellence in language teaching is a prerequisite, as is a genuine interest in undergraduate education in the Liberal Arts. The department is looking for candidates with an interdisciplinary, intermedial, and/or comparative research agenda. Members of the German and Russian department regularly collaborate with other programs and departments such as Comparative Literature, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Environmental Studies, Africana Studies, and Art History, among others.

When I taught at Williams College in the 1980s I remember one young German professor forcing conservative Christian students to watch a movie about gay bathhouses in Germany. It was obviously disgusting propaganda. As one conservative student said, "I won't be using any of those words when I visit Germany."

Ironically, a quick scan of the German department shows there is already plenty of woke nonsense being taught by its professors including Christophe A. Koné who teaches a class on Afro-Germans and German Comics. Likewise, a new visiting assistant professor of German, Susanne Fuchs, is returning to Williams College to teach courses in German literature and language with a focus on environmental justice, social activism, and queer identities and readings.

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia, and WND.

This Week in Pictures: Williams College Edition

 

This Week in Pictures: Williams College Edition