Day: February 3, 2025

Deporting Radicalism: Trump’s Crackdown on Anti-Israel Campus Protests

On February 1, reports emerged that Liu Lijun, a Chinese national studying at the University of California, Los Angeles, is facing deportation after participating in anti-Israel protests on campus. Liu’s case marks one of the first applications of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on January 29. This order targets—among other things—foreign students […]

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The Problem with Conflict of Interest

Of late, scholarly journals and law reviews are now asking would-be authors to fill out a conflict of interest form. What is going on here? What is a conflict of interest? Perhaps the clearest conflict of interest in such academic publications is a chemist writing an article exonerating a pharmaceutical company from charges of malfeasance […]

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Censorship in U.S. School Libraries: What Now for the Bible?

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on June 29, 2023. It was translated into English from French by the Observatory before being edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. The American and international media have recently echoed a […]

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Back to Stick Figures: How Woke Warriors Destroyed Anthropology

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Reality’s Last Stand on January 16, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission.  Biological anthropology and archaeology are facing a censorship crisis. Censorship can be defined simply as the suppression of speech, public communication, or information, often because it is deemed […]

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Federal Funding Shouldn’t Be Going to Woke University Programs

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the City Journal on January 28, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission.  At a June 2024 teacher workshop put together by the African Studies Association Outreach Council, which “promotes the teaching of Africa in K-16 classrooms,” one presenter told attendees that […]

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A New ‘Ellis Island’: U.S. Colleges and Universities Defy Immigration Enforcement

As the Trump administration battles to secure the southern border and undo Biden’s reckless dereliction of duty—which allowed 10 million illegal migrants into the country—colleges and universities are doing everything they can to make immigration enforcement a nightmare. Instead of helping address this crisis, they’re actively obstructing federal agents, blatantly disregarding the rule of law […]

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The Passion Project Industry: How College Admissions Activities Lists Killed Intellectual Wonder

“Do you help with the passion project?” Every so often, I’ll hop on a sales call with an inbound client at my college consulting company, Invictus Prep. Nervous parents, many of them immigrants and newcomers to the American college admissions process, will come prepared with a score of questions about how we propose to help […]

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