Why did the Chronicle of Higher Education fire Naomi Schaefer Riley? Writing on the American Thinker site, Abraham Miller offers a deft and elegantly phrased explanation: “for revealing what almost everyone on any campus knows, but is reluctant to say, about black studies: it is a political cause masquerading as an academic discipline, and if there were real intellectual, and not political, standards on campus, it would be shut down.”
Miller shows how various individual strands of corruption are woven together on and off campus, including “institutionalized minority sympathy grading,” and political pressure from minority state legislators for more minority graduates, regardless of whether those graduates learn anything or not. Read the whole thing.
