What They're Reading on College Campuses
Remember Professor Pottymouth?
Now comes the bestseller rankings: #1 is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. No surprise there.
And from Princeton is #6 Bullsh*t, by (tenured) Professor Harry G. Frankfurt*.
These two academic achievements have one thing in common: neither have footnotes.
*As ranked by The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 9, 2005.
If he had used the term “malarky” instead of “b*llsh*t,” would you still object to the book?
“Bullshit” is the most common contemporary term for what he was writing about: reckless disregard for the truth (as opposed to intentioanlly saying something false.)
I haven’t read the book, but I heard the professor interviewed by Al Franken on Franken’s radio show, and I don’t think his choice of word was salacious.