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The Ever-Expanding Kingdom of Bull

Neil Greenspan takes an appalled glance at all the BS in academia and beyond.

Harry Frankfurt began his hugely popular philosophical monograph, On Bullshit (Princeton U.P., 2005), with the following assertion: “One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit” (‘BS’). Subsequent political events have not only supported this claim, they have rendered it an understatement. It is not merely that there is so much of it, but that it is incessant, and comes from all quarters: government, academia, business, and the media.

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