Its “Devon” is pretty obviously based on Yale, and the farcical tale offers a compendium of many of the well-documented campus outrages and idiocies of recent years. Campusland stays close to the old formula. Scott Johnston’s Campusland and Andrew Pessin’s Nevergreen respond to the new and darker situation in very different ways and with different results. The ideas behind Nikole Hannah-Jones’s 1619 Project might have started on the campus, but the New York Times and its trusting readers made them the guiding light for the ruling class. It’s not Pnin or Pictures from An Institution time anymore. When, as now however, the educated upper-class audience is itself as likely to be of a kind with the nutty professors, and when the shared nuttiness is also a burning angriness, there is little room for the mild and knowing humor of the classic kind. “O Lord, what fools these mortals be” could be the watchword of the genre and of how it provides a typically gentle and ultimately reassuring entertainment for the reasonable reader it presumes. Like much satirical comedy, the underlying assumption is the conservative one of a reasonable social and moral order that eventually, as in Shakespeare’s plays, reasserts itself.
Eccentric figures, often recognizable human types, frequently deformed by their intellectual fashions and passions, play off against a reasonable protagonist. The academic comedy is a venerable genre. 218, $17.95 softcover.įred Baumann is a professor of political science at Kenyon College Nevergreen, Andrew Pessin, Open Books, pp. See /listener for privacy information.Campusland: A Novel, Scott Johnston, St. It helps our podcast get into the ears of new listeners, which expands the ManTalks Community Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech
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It has gone to sell over a million copies.
As an undergraduate, he was involved in campus fraternity and social life and self-published The Complete Book of Beer Drinking Games just after graduation. He’s a Yale graduate who has taught classes there. Scott Johnston has worked in finance for 35 years.
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