https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/23/first_tragedy_then_farce_dept/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 06:17:00 -0400<![CDATA[Many of my readers, being sensible souls, will be innocent of the name Homi K. Bhabha. The former Chester D. Tripp Professor of the Humanities at the University of Chicago is now the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard as well as Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at University College, London. Pretty impressive, eh? Professor Bhabha made his name as an exponent of &#8220;post-colonial studies,&#8221; i.e., a reader-proof species of anti-Western multicultural claptrap that even now makes many graduate students salivate. In case you believe that &#8220;reader-proof&#8221; is unkind, allow me to introduce you to this snippet from his much-admired essay &#8220;Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse&#8221;:]]>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:26:09 -0400<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2008/04/23/first_tragedy_then_farce_dept-n114738