What The Rolling Stone Affidavits Show
…Wendy Murphy and David Lisak, and all of her interview subjects appear to have been people who agreed with her on the existence of a campus “culture of rape.”) Rolling…
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Liberals Who Drifted Toward the New Illiberalism
…like courts in rape cases.” The drift from liberalism towards illiberalism, Holmes says, is partially explained by the emergence of a new ruling class distinguished by “cultural habits.” He refers…
‘Masculinity Is Being Dissolved on Campus’
…men, then you can have weak women. That’s what we have. Our university system, anything that is remotely masculine is identified as toxic, as intrinsic to rape culture. A utopian…
Yale’s Case against Montague Looks Shaky
…that the New Haven campus was a hotbed of violent crime. Related: Montague and Yale’s Poisoned Campus Culture The indication that the Title IX officer—not the accuser—filed the charges should…
Accused, Expelled, and Smeared as a Rapist—at Yale
The case of Yale basketball player Jack Montague, who was expelled from Yale, allegedly because of a rape charge, has gotten a lot of press in the last few days….
Yale’s Imaginary Crime Wave
…it was a visitor?) But how can the Title IX investigate such a complaint to determine if “academic accommodations” are actually warranted? Related: Let’s Challenge the ‘Rape Culture’ Warriors A…
THE NORMALIZATION OF BAD IDEAS
…Washington Post. While feminists have used the term “rape culture” for years to characterize the United States, they rarely criticize or even comment on the high incidence of rape of…
A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
…academe. JONATHAN HAIDT: Yes. That’s correct. JOHN LEO: To many of us, it looks like a monoculture. JONATHAN HAIDT: Yes. It is certainly a monoculture. The academic world in the…
What Candidates Can Do For Higher Education Now
…“rape culture.” Related: Gillibrand Revised—Still No Due Process This one instance of many testifies to how little attention our leading candidates pay to higher education. Americans, however, have been shocked…
The Leftist Intellectuals Hovering over the Campuses
…black culture and the apologist for Palestinian terrorism Edward Said, who claimed Arab and Islamic culture was beyond the ken of Westerners, Lukacs instructed that Soviet culture was entirely opaque…
Campus Turmoil Begins in High School
…but the second question was “So you think rape is OK?” Related: A Targeted Teacher at Yale Quits Like most of the questions, it was backed up by a sea…
Three Men Unfairly Branded as Campus Rapists
…students were drunk but neither was raped. Jane then went to administrators at Occidental, who initially agreed with the police. Related: U. of Michigan Screws Up in ‘Rape’ Case Occidental…
Cornell’s Not Even Hiding Its Bias Anymore
…York.Later, she said, “Speech can be regulated. Speech has to be regulated in the narrowest possible way to serve a compelling state interest.” At a rally against “rape culture,” student…
Watch out for Anti-Rape Campaigns Run by Elitists
…person put on trial then, if found guilty, put in jail and removed from society so that he can’t rape or sexually assault other women. (Most of these accusations are…
A Lame Defense of Trigger Warnings and Micro-Aggression Mania
…such as the protest at Oberlin College against allowing dissident feminist Christina Hoff Sommers speak on campus lest she offend some students who call her a “rape denier.” But it…
Wesleyan Finishes off Its Frats
…perturbed by Greek houses’ resistance to campus administrative control and their often politically incorrect culture. As soon as fraternities came into existence during the early 19th century, university administrators started…
Office For Civil Rights Goes After Michigan State
…“OCR heard,” for instance, that a student had reported being raped at a fraternity shortly before the investigator came to campus. Well: Had she? Though this information presumably would have…
I Am Woman, Watch Me Wilt at Columbia
…protecting females from “rape.” Naturally, the Columbia initiative embraces the conceit that college campuses are filled with shell-shocked female victims of rape culture who might collapse at any minute from…
The Strange World of Social Justice Warriors
Culture wars over “social justice” have been wreaking havoc in many communities, including universities and science fiction fandom. The ordeal of Northwestern University film professor Laura Kipnis, hauled before a…
The Washington Post Joins the Rape Culture Crusade
…an intense ideological commitment to the administration’s “rape culture” narrative. Beyond the specific critiques mentioned above, four general comments about the Post’s effort. Related: WAPO’s Faulty Rape Poll Muddies the…
Did ‘Mattress Girl’ Tell the Truth? Not Very Likely
…that “rape is extremely difficult to prosecute both effectively and fairly,” the kind of violent attack that Sulkowicz alleges—an excruciatingly painful anal rape during which she was hit in the…
WHY MILLENNIALS CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH
…the University of Virginia – which Rolling Stone recently smeared in its publication of fabulism about rape culture on campuses. FIRE has rated 437 colleges and universities in the US…
TEN CAMPUS RAPES—OR WERE THEY?
…prosecute sexual assault cases; and from on-campus activists demanding the end to single-sex fraternities as a way to end “rape culture” at the college. (The accused student was a frat…
How the Far Left on Campus Ruined Liberalism
…question the guilt of Darren Wilson was to be a racist, and to question the veracity of Sulkowicz’s story was to be a sexist rape apologist. Doing either of these…
Campus Hypersensitivity—at Last a Pushback
…classroom by Professor Pancho Savery because of statements he made about rape culture that made others in the class uncomfortable. In particular, True said he challenged the controversial statistic that…
‘The Rape Epidemic on Campus Does Not Exist’
…college careers. Detroit is America’s most violent city. Its violent crime rate for all four violent felonies—that’s rape, murder, aggravated assault, and robbery—is 2%. Its rape rate is 0.05%. A…
The Dissembling Protesters
…culture at OU.” Unlike Conlon’s alleged quote, which was outright deceptive, Chadwick’s statement described a talk that didn’t occur. My only use of the phrase “rape culture” came when a…
KC Johnson Amid the Hecklers
…fight against rape apologists, while another cited to a non-existent FBI report alleging that the odds of being falsely accused of rape are “2.7 million to one.” (This would mean…
Is ‘Get a Job’ the Purpose of College?
…Berrett’s simplistic dichotomy. Climate Citizens, Rape Culture, ISIS, Employment Liberal education serves all four purposes at once, but seldom in equal measure. Because we have limited time and limited resources,…
A Plan to Remake Dartmouth
…is to a plan by University president Phil Hanlon to deal with Dartmouth’s outstanding reputation for binge-drinking, feminist accusations of “rape culture,” and angry faculty demands that fraternities be eliminated….