Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the author’s Substack Heterodox STEM on October 14, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP), proudly trumpeting its obscurantism, has pre-published “Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity: The problems with […]
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Note: Top of Mind subscribers received a condensed version of this article in this week’s newsletter. This is the full-length piece, including copies of the assignments discussed. If one were to need a specific example of how colleges and universities are creating leftist foot soldiers, they need look no further than the assignments currently being […]
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On November 13, 1775, Brigadier General Richard Montgomery led the victorious American army into the city of Montreal. He had laid the military foundation for the state of Canada to join the Union, and went off with his army toward Quebec City to finish the campaign, which did not go as planned. The Battle of […]
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Princeton University’s decision to reinstate SAT and ACT testing requirements marks a victory for common sense. The students who choose not to report their test scores to admissions departments are generally those who calculate that their scores are too low to make their applications competitive. Colleges have always understood that, but have gone along with […]
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With every passing year, the left exhibits greater contempt for America, and that trend is evident in the growing disrespect for Veterans Day on college campuses. Colleges and universities not only replace patriotic traditions with woke celebrations like Juneteenth, but openly advocate against this day of remembrance for U.S. service members. Institutions such as Harvard, […]
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July 2025 was the centennial of the famous “monkey trial” of John Thomas Scopes in Dayton, Tennessee. Scopes was on trial for violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of any theory of the origin of man that contradicted the account in Genesis. There is a preferred narrative for the Scopes trial, which goes […]
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College students are on an alarming path of equating words with weapons and supporting politically-motivated violence to stop “harmful speech.” Even before the assassination of Turning Point USA founder and free speech champion Charlie Kirk, college students have increasingly seen free speech as an enemy of safety and security. The free speech group Freedom of […]
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“Should I let go of my Zionist friends?” asks an anonymous Harvard student. A Harvard Crimson editor responds: yes, the student is entitled to end those friendships. What sounds like a thoughtful meditation on friendship and conviction instead reads like a dispatch from a campus that no longer knows what truth is—or what friendship requires. […]
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The Dunmore Declaration probably gets more attention in 2025 than it did in 1775, when John Murray, Lord Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, proclaimed that certain slaves and indentured servants in the colony who helped the British suppress the Patriot rebellion would be granted their freedom. The offer was limited to young men who […]
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Recently, Zohran Mamdani—winner of the New York mayoral race—faced opposition in a letter signed by 1,000 rabbis, cantors, and yeshiva students. These leaders of the Jewish community feared the normalization of anti-Semitism within New York and broader afield, as Mamdani has accused the Israeli government of genocide, said that he would arrest Binyamin Netanyahu were […]
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Author’s Note: This article originally appeared in my weekly Top of Mind newsletter, which goes out to subscribers every Thursday. Sign up to receive it directly in your inbox. A $10 billion educational juggernaut promising to soothe young minds amid rising anxiety rates has taken America’s classrooms hostage. It’s called Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). SEL’s […]
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Both facts and rhetoric often shape the public discourse on thorny topics. In fact, no subject other than race illustrates the gulf of differences between the two. On one hand, adherents to a race-based dogma demand top-down filtering of socioeconomic policies and culturally acceptable viewpoints through the lens of race. To the left, observed disparities […]
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I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place.[1] – Christian Anfinsen (1916-1995). Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University and winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry For […]
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Author’s Note: I serve as a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter president, but the views expressed here are my own. What follows reflects my personal experience as a Texas State student who organized the memorial and witnessed the events of that day. When Turning Point USA at Texas State hosted a memorial for Charlie Kirk […]
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Editor’s Note: This letter was submitted to the editor of Minding the Campus in response to his article, “College Students in a Romance Recession, Boys Blame ‘Hoeflation.’” Jared, the problems you identify in this rather depressing article are symptoms rather than causes. The cause of the current malaise among our youth begins at the beginning. […]
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Once upon a time, people dressed sharply, minded their manners, and worried about how their behavior reflected on their families and communities. Sure, this was partly driven by vanity, but it was also useful. Such prosocial vanity is maligned by modern standards as shallow, but it was not shallow; it served a purpose: it kept people […]
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“Diversity, equity, and inclusion” ideology, or DEI, has replaced merit and intellectual diversity with forced inclusivity and conformity. In K-12 education, this shift has often meant lowering expectations to prevent students from feeling excluded, rather than raising all students to higher standards. In practice, this prioritizes social comfort over genuine learning. For example, philosopher and […]
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The ideal of academic freedom has always rested on a simple promise: scholars must be free to pursue truth, wherever it leads. But new data from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) show how far higher education has drifted from that ideal. In FIRE’s latest survey, an astonishing 94 percent of faculty reported […]
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It’s that time of year again: the college admissions process for American high school seniors, where students race to prepare application essays for a chance to study at many of America’s elite colleges and universities. As a private college admissions counselor at my firm Invictus Prep, I guide a handful of students through the college […]
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The Trump administration’s new monitoring of social media for visa applicants and visa holders, in particular for international students, has generated vigorous debate over the free speech rights of non-Americans. But some of those most affected by the new policies support the intention of protecting American identity through strict immigration policy. The State Department in […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was published by the College Fix on October 30, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The United States will likely see fewer foreign college students in America this school year, according to an analysis by the New York Times. The Times’s analysis is based […]
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There is nothing like political ideology to create difficulties with thinking, and the situation worsens when it is channeled through institutions. Among the most pronounced sources of such difficulties, ironically, is the university. I would like to suggest that the logical problem of induction is the single biggest problem in higher education. A few words […]
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Author’s Note: This article originally appeared in my weekly Top of Mind newsletter, which goes out to subscribers every Thursday. Sign up to receive it directly in your inbox. John K. Wilson’s essay in Inside Higher Ed, “Misogyny and ‘Hoeflation’ at the National Association of Scholars,” attacks my essay, “College Students in a Romance Recession, […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the Oklahoma Council Of Public Affairs on October 29, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Lindel Fields, Oklahoma’s new State Superintendent of Public Instruction, has announced that the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) will “restart the process of reviewing […]
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President Donald Trump should be commended for his resolute efforts to rid the nation’s colleges and universities of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) practices that discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, gender, and ethnicity in violation of federal law. The President correctly believes that employment and admissions decisions should be made, and are […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the National Association of Scholars on October 28, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. On October 1, the Trump administration sent a letter to nine American universities offering a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” […]
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In a few days, hordes of witches, ghosts, walking skeletons, and other assorted monsters will descend upon my suburban cul-de-sac. None of them frightens me very much, with the possible exception of the overweight 45-year-old dude in the Spider-Man costume. No, as a long-time college professor, I’m most afraid these days of three things: bad robots, the abyss, and […]
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Halloween is when restless ghosts of the past return, and with the holiday approaching, it’s a fitting moment to resurrect the story of Middlebury College’s (Middlebury) renaming of Mead Memorial Chapel. On April 9, 2025, Judge Robert A. Mello of the Addison Unit of the Vermont Superior Court ruled in the college’s favor, dismissing all […]
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Recent reports show that parents, regardless of political affiliation, still aspire to send their children to college. Yet they would be wise to carefully consider where they are sending them, what kind of education they will receive, and who will be teaching them. The concern is not just about academic quality but about the ideological […]
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“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.” — John Stuart Mill The debate over “viewpoint diversity” has moved from faculty lounges to legislatures and boardrooms. Universities from Ohio to Florida have written it into law, and others, like Johns Hopkins, have partnered with think tanks to bring new […]
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