Glynn Custred

Academic Questions

December 12, 2024

The Closed American Mind and What to Do About It

Glynn Custred

Glynn Custred describes Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott’s The Canceling of the American Mind as a valuable source for understanding the origins of cancel culture.

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April 24, 2024

The Place of the Novel in the Liberal Arts Curriculum

Glynn Custred

A discussion of the place of the novel in liberal arts education, a question sparked by the recent publication of Joseph Epstein’s The Novel, Who Needs It? Novels are important, says E......

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February 28, 2024

The Forge of War

Glynn Custred

Glynn Custred tackles the latest iteration of George Orwell’s life and career, The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War by Peter Stansky. Stansky focuses on Orwell’s involvem......

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July 17, 2023

Disney in the Crosshairs

Glynn Custred

Anthropologist Glynn Custred traces the origins of Disney’s stark shift to political fare.

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July 17, 2023

What Should We Teach?

Glynn Custred

Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin suggest a curriculum for our future.

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January 10, 2023

The Language Conundrum

Glynn Custred

A review of "The Language Conundrum," by Randy Allen Harris, Second Edition 2021, Oxford University Press, pp. 368, $25.99 used.

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October 24, 2022

China and Our Perfidious Elite

Glynn Custred

A review of "Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win," by Peter Schweitzer, 2022, Harper, pp. 352, $16.99 hardbound.

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March 18, 2022

Marxism in America

Glynn Custred

Anthropologist Glynn Custred provides the context for the arrival of two books by big-name conservatives exploring the history of leftist politics in the United States.

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December 27, 2021

The Chicoms on the World Stage

Glynn Custred

A review of "Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World," by Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg, One World Publications, 2020, pp. 418, $17.41 hardb......

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April 16, 2021

Kipling, Orwell, and the Humanities

Glynn Custred

The study of Kipling and Orwell demonstrates how much is to be gained from a proper education in the humanities. Today, university courses have become instruments of indoctrination.

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