![]() in absentia from the University of Chicago-in absentia because I took my final examination on a pool table at Headquarters Company, Fort Hood, Texas, while serving in the peacetime Army in the late 1950s. I taught at Northwestern University for 30 years without a doctorate or any advanced degree. ![]() ![]() Finally, I’ll gloss over the simplest explanation for people’s assumption that doctors are M.D.’s: the fact that, outside of academia, the only doctorates we encounter regularly are in medicine. Then, to avoid taking responsibility for my own anti-elitist bigotry, I’ll put the words about medical doctors and and other doctorates in the mouth of “a wise man” rather than myself. Biden’s thesis, but I’ll pretend I’m not sure what her actual degree is. Your degree is, I believe, an Ed.D., a doctor of education, earned at the University of Delaware through a dissertation with the unpromising title “Student Retention at the Community College Level: Meeting Students’ Needs.” A wise man once said that no one should call himself “Dr.” unless he has delivered a child. And I’ll disrespect the 10% of university graduates who get a doctorate by calling their credential “comic.” Translation: I’d like to show my lack of respect for First Lady Biden by calling her “kiddo” and “Jill.” I’ll also randomly mention the word “fraudulent” to remind you of Trump’s claims about the election. Jill Biden ” sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic. Any chance you might drop the “Dr.” before your name? “Dr. ![]() Biden-Jill-kiddo: a bit of advice on what may seem like a small but I think is a not unimportant matter. Jill Biden should think about dropping the honorific, which feels fraudulent, even comic. Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not if You Need an M.D. Here’s what’s in the op-ed - and what Epstein is really saying. ![]() It’s dumb, sexist, and an insult to anyone who’s ever earned a university doctorate. On the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, Joseph Epstein published an op-ed advising first lady Jill Biden - who has a doctorate in education - to drop the “Dr.” in her name. ![]()
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