THE AMERICAN MIND: AN OBITUARY
By Jason D. Hill

CONTENTS

Introduction-6

Chapter One: The Social Psychology of the University Intellectual--12

I. The Trauma of the Playing Field--12

II. Good Boys and Girls 101: The Socialization of the American Intellectual-43

III. Junior Rebels Come out, Come out Wherever You Are-53

Chapter Two: Bourgeois Philistines and the Struggle for American Thought-60

I. The People’s Intellectual Versus the Cult of the Irrelevant--60

II. The Frumpy Witch with a Graying Beard, a Nun’s Habit and the Evil Eye-74

III. The Amazon Queen Versus the Autistic Nerd: Camille Paglia and Judge Richard Posner-80

IV. Condemned to Hard Labor: Scholarship and the Price of Indentured Servitude-89

V. Slipping the Dead Some Tongue: Language and the American Intellectual in the Age of Necrophilia--99

VI. Why Do They Hate Us So Much? The Logic and Virtue of Public Contempt for American Intellectuals-110

Chapter Three: “Gangsta Intellectuals” and Their Fantasy Worlds-127

I. Historical Radicals-127

II. The Serial Contrarian or the Chronic Naysayer-135

III. The Radical Hipster, a.ka. the Pedagogical Radical-143

IV. Don’t Do as I Say or Do as I Do: Hipster Radicals and Their Crazy Ways-146

V. Marginalized Addicts: Lords and Mistresses of the Unknown-154

VI. Students, Express Yourself and Keep It Real: The Discussion Junkies as Talk Show Hosts-164

Chapter Four: Cognitive Terrorists and Other Radical Assassins in the House of the American Mind-175

I. The Radical Template: The Nomad, the Outlaw and the Civil Disobedient-175

II. Radical Chic Prêt-a-Porte-183

III. Bitches in Socks, Old Frocks and High Heels: The Academic Mob Squad Takes Out a Hit on America’s Leading “Lady” Philosopher-193

IV. Postscript to 9/11 and the Fatwa against the American Mind: Post-modernism and Its Collusion with Evil-201

Chapter Five: Sex and the Academic
For Camille Paglia: A Sexual Homage-213

I. Male Feminists and the Women Who Hump Them-213

II. The Gay Academic: Sexual Harasser of the Male Feminist and George Bush as the New Millennium’s Unsung Gay Icon-223

III. The Anti-Porn Academic, or: Miss MacKinnon I Dare You to Be Nasty!-235

IV. The Nobility of Religious Anti-Porn Values-246

V. The Philosopher of Porn: Rocco Siffredi-250

Chapter Six: Tribal Warlords in the House of the American Mind: Race and Stench in Our Ghetto Universities-280

I. Neo-Cannibalism in the Academy: The Racial Body Snatchers-280

II. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?-294

III. How the “Progressive Intellectual” Teaches His Children to Be Unconscious Racists and Gets Away with It: Atlas Shrugging under the Weight of White Man’s Burden-307

Chapter Seven: The Linguistic Slum Lords: The Back to Ebonics Movement-317

I. Don’t Be Tryin’ to Make Me Talk Proper and Sho Nuff Don’t Be Tryin’ to Colonize My “Nigga Mind” wich Y’all’s Western Ideological Bullshit-317

II. Ebonics and Cultural Competency: Good Hair Days and Educational Breakthroughs-334

III. The Ebonics Prison System: A Rational Antidote-338

IV. Segregation by Any Other Name Is Okay, and Guess What? It Pays!-340

Chapter Eight: Dear Freshmen: X-Rated Secrets about College Life Nobody Told You-343

I. You Are Paying Customers. Paying Customers Are Never Wrong! Where Does That Leave Us? Scared and Looking for Depends Bladder Control Pads in Wal-Mart-344

II. What a Joke! You Students Who are Paying Thousands of Dollars for an Education Are Being Trained for Middle Management. You Are Being Jacked!-351

III. A Return to an Elitism of the Soul-362

IV. How You’re Being Taught the Immoral Vocabularies That Will Make Future Holocausts Possible without Knowing It-366

V. Is It Time for Another Tea Party? A Different Type of Revolution?-370

VI. Sex, Sex, and More Sex: Horny Professors and Their Students Just Wanna Have Fun!-380

VII. Dr. J’s Daily Affirmations-385