On her very popular education blog, Joanne Jacobs mentions an excellent article written by former JLF intern Abby Alger. Abby’s article on “Fat Studies” appeared on the Leadership Institute CampusReform.org blog last week. She wrote,
I criticize Fat Studies because it is part of a dangerous dumbing down of liberal education in which the pursuit of knowledge is replaced by frantic social programming and promotion of state programs. No more. No less. Replace Fat Studies with any type of identity studies, and you’ll get the same result.
Perhaps she was inspired by Jon Sanders and George Leef, who have written about these kinds of nutty courses many, many times over the years.
