this excerpt from Joe Raggo’s sendup of Dartmouth, French literary theory and the state of academia in general:
I once wrote a term paper for a lit-crit course where I “deconstructed” the MTV program “Pimp My Ride.” A typical passage: “Each episode is a text of inescapable complexity . . . Our received notions of what constitutes a ride are constantly subverted and undermined.” It received an A.
And check back later this week for a full Commentariat Year in Review.