Would you dumb down to fit in? Simon escapes the ridiculous Riverside University of London by exchanging with its American partner – the University of Sunshine Bayside, only to wake up to the wokest of woke colleges. Virtues are punished as vices, conformity trumps originality, and minds are melded – one falsehood at a time. Being good at his job is his first mistake. In election year, politicians, terrorists, spies, publicists, journalists, and bluffers compete to make an example of him in their fight for a new global society. The professor is about to be taken to school…
Cuprins
1. Riverside
2. Riverside’s Director
3. London home
4. Jimmy Pons
5. Jimmy’s swagger
6. The cottage
7. Joe Karolides
8. Reception
9. Asian relations
10. Smart Sisters
11. Guest lecturer
12. Gatsby
13. USOP
14. The Hidden Chef
15. Berk
16. Creative grading
17. Art Deco talk
18. Extremism
19. FBI CT
20. Optimists Club
21. ICE
22. Anti-fed hero
23. Publicity
24. Yannis
25. FBI CI
26. Marcus and Arjun
27. Halloween
28. Protests
29. CVE
30. History Society
31. Election
32. The Chase
33. Emergency
34. Scapegoat
35. Fact and Fiction
36. Thanksgiving
37. Last class
38. RRR
39. Exam week
40. Deluge
41. Cruise
42. Regime change
43. Investiture
Despre autor
BRUCE OLIVER NEWSOME teaches at the University of San Diego. He has held standing faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania, University of California Berkeley, and the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. Bruce earned a doctoral degree in International and Strategic Studies, a masters degree in Political Science, and a bachelors with honors in War Studies. He is the author of more than a dozen books in history and social science. He advocates for science and free speech on You Tube and Twitter as the ‘Risky Scientists.’ Bruce is a proud citizen of both Britain and America, and is fluent in both languages. As an academic, he often considered registering his sense of humor as a disability. He thought the same of his objectivity. As a male, his preferred pronoun is ‘he.’