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June 20, 2008 - 4:52 pm - by Roger Kimball
Mary Jackson
2008-06-21 06:33:56

I am too charitable to subject you to a sample of its almost comically reader-proof prose (you can see for yourself here), but it is worth pausing to note that such work is absolutely typical in the academic establishment today. It really is “the voice of scholarship,” or what’s become of scholarship.

I clicked on the link and got this:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error ’80040e07′

Syntax error converting the varchar value ’11546)’ to a column of data type int.

/Content.asp, line 50

Is this the voice of scholarship? Things really have gone downhill.