The Takeover
…answer is clear to anyone who watched the videos: these student protests are no longer composed solely of left-wing American students steeped in critical theory and post-colonial ideology. The protests…
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After Claudine: How to Repair American Higher Education
…students. They are taught a combination of resentment and vulnerability that makes them easily led by the DEI demagogues. Led where? Into public protests where their individuality is dissolved into…
Nazism, Anti-Semitism, and Today’s Islamo-Fascism at American Universities
…with angry protests from some faculty, students, and alumni. An editorial titled “The Rumor Confirmed” in the Cornell Daily Sun of March 3, typifies the responses elicited by news of…
Campus DEI Fuels Anti-Semitism and Reinforces Racial Stereotypes
…people, and policies that create powerful incentives and career-threatening penalties that reach into every corner of the institution. This includes faculty hiring and student admissions, new curriculum, extracurricular programming, student…
Politik Kills and the Intelligentsia are Complicit
…and anti-oppression is shared by many others among the intelligentsia—whether it is expressed explicitly or through acquiescence. College students throughout the U.S. have held hundreds of pro-Palestine protests—some of which…
Gerber For Faculty Positions
…120 Yale law students shouted down a panel that included a speaker from the Alliance Defending Freedom. The students eventually left the room but continued their disruption outside the doors….
American Academia’s Hate for Israel and Love Affair With Iran
…Anti-Israel protests by college students and weak excuses for anti-Semitism by university administrations are nothing new. Affection for terrorism and the Iranian theocracy runs deep through the heart of academia—American…
There’s Nothing Left to Lose: On the Stop W.O.K.E Act and Academic Freedom
…deluge will result. Think of the mayhem of firings, litigation, strikes, and protests. But without it, there can be no serious attempt to restore higher education to health. The AFA…
Campus Shout-Downs Must Be Met with Stern Discipline
…Kyle Duncan called on it to state “unequivocal support for the dignity and safety of trans and queer students.” After Riley Gaines visited SFSU, one student said, “Trans students don’t…
Future Lawyers Who Are Afraid to Debate
…rudely chastise Judge Duncan and defend the students that diversocrats like her groom into full-blown grievance-mongers. Catering to that small group of woke law students, Steinbach stepped up to the…
The Great Awokening and the Slave Revolt in Morality
…Every day. This work terrifies me: Every day. I invite my white students to join me on this journey. And to my students of color: I apologize for the inexcusable…
The Logical and Rhetorical Problems With Student Loan Forgiveness
…take out student loans. In fact, most undergraduate students do not take out student loans—63% to 74% depending on the year (College Board, 2021, p. 40). And of the students…
Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College: The Warning to Wokesters
…was at best a mistake by an overimaginative student, and remaining incidents were deliberate hoaxes perpetrated by two white wokester students who admitted that they did it “as a joke…
Modern Day Brownshirts Suppress Free Speech at Yale Law School
…guest speaker’s ideas are toxic or repulsive, then a student can choose not to attend the event. However, an individual student or group of students does not have the right…
Silencing Disfavored Speech
…Shapiro was denounced as racist by Georgetown students, faculty, and staff alike, including Dean and Executive Vice President William Treanor. Members of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) on campus…
Not All College Students Are OK with Cancel Culture
…about free speech on college campuses captures the voices of over 37,000 students at 159 colleges and universities across the country—it finds that many students reject cancel culture, whereas some…
Who Made Our College Students into Ideological Monsters?
…The Anthropology Students Association, The Anthropology Graduate Students Association, World Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies Association, Black Students Network, Muslim Students Association, Students in Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, Thaqalayn…
They Must Fear Us: A Modest Proposal
…example, is a hypothetical letter to President Martin of Faber College that will surely concentrate his mind: December 21, 2121 Dear President Martin: Speaking on behalf of Students for Intellectual…
Field Notes on the Politicization of the American University
…of protests against police violence.” In short, the statement is the Syracuse English Department’s deliberately chosen first impression. Scripted in large font and occupying the entire screen, this document is…
Huizinga to Conservative Intellectuals: Get Back in the Game!
…to it, especially academia. At the same time, tarred by the Great Depression, the Civil Rights movement, and protests against the Vietnam War, and frustrated by being driven into the…
Racism: What It Is and What It Is Not (Part III)
…Students and administrators at one prestigious school of music stretched logic to its breaking point by linking the George Floyd protests with the lack of African American representation and interest…
$1 Billion Price Tag Put on UW-Madison’s Minority Programs
…the many minority student programs created to assist these students after enrollment. Non-minority students and their families are not fooled by the supposed neutrality of “holistic” admission standards. The widely…
The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations at Rutgers
…What if students who enroll in courses taught by these indoctrinated professors have alternative views about race, Black Lives Matter, the existence of white supremacy, or the legitimacy of protests,…
Black Lives Matter on the Ballot
…years, and that continues apace. There also has been and continues to be more than a large dollop of hypocrisy in their pro-preference protests. They claim, for example, in the…
When Meeting Racial Quotas Is Impossible
…likewise all white, and that the prize selection committee was mostly non-white (four whites, five people of color, the heads of the Black Student Union and the Latinx Student Union…
The Humanities Throw in the Towel
…history, the humanities today are beset by declining student enrollments and a sharp drop in academic prestige. The troubles, however, don’t stop there. If in doubt, consider the new exhibit…
‘Social Justice’ Ideology Is Damaging American Values
…future was the protests at Harvard and Yale law schools against the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Hundreds of students from our most influential legal academies marched…
Free Speech Must Be Protected Inside and Outside the College Classroom
…spaces where students develop their own reputations and social standing within various groups. If a student “offends” another student by disagreeing with the social justice mandates on campus, the social…
Court Allows Indirect Control of Campus Speech
…affected student to discuss an incident and discuss if the student wants to file a formal complaint with the university or campus police. Team members can ask a student who…
The Garden of College Excellence Is Growing Weeds
…him. This book could not be more timely. The cascade of campus contretemps over academic values and due process in recent years seems relentless. A partial list would include student…