The Trans Agenda Could Make You Choose Your Pronouns
left blank.) But this seems to me almost as egregious as publicly posting one’s religion, also a question under the “personal information” section. The selection of pronouns represents a decided…
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‘Social Justice’ Ideology Is Damaging American Values
denizens are sheltered from the hurly-burly of the marketplace on the assumption that they will pursue truth wherever it will take them, unaffected by political or economic pressures. The definition…
Double Standards on Free Speech
…announced restrictions on his teaching and grading, but refused to fire him. The provost’s refusal to fire the professor was then widely denounced by progressives. The provost recognized that the…
How to Cope With Your Prof’s Left-wing Bias
drift toward mainstream left-of-center politics. Its primary driver is an explosion in the number of faculty who identify on the far left — a category that includes Marxists, socialists, and…
A Racially “Woke” Agenda Is Now Hardwired in Public Schools
on the coercive fist of government. At the same time, the political left has become ever more reliant on the education system (K-12 through college and beyond) to inculcate statist…
Where Does the Impulse to Vilify America and the West Come From?
their percentage in the general population. The cover label for this demand is “diversity and inclusion.” The justification is labeled “social justice.” These claims reinforce the Marxist identity politics vision…
When Colleges Defraud Donors
that Mizzou blatantly violated the terms of Wall Street financier Sherlock Hibbs’ will, who left $5 million to his alma mater upon his death to create multiple chairs to be…
Should False Rape Reports Be Punished?
in their tendentious “studies” do their best to inflate the number of rapes. One way they do this is by expanding the definition of rape, encouraging women who feel regret…
Columbia Adds Multiculturalism to Core Curriculum
social issues. And then we have this, the wholly predictable turn toward critical thinking about canon formation. The insertion of contemporary literature is “one of a number of initiatives intended…
A Weak Attempt at Justifying Admissions Preferences
enhance the school’s reputation. It’s simply because they “represent” one of the racial and ethnic groups those officials want more of. That explanation fits two facts about this matter. One…
Diversicrats Are All That’s Left on Campus
to academic practice. The High Theory ventures of the 1970s—Derridean deconstruction, Lacanian psychoanalysis, reader-response theory—would find their completion in these rising apostles of “difference.” [Diversity’s Worst Failure–the Faculty] Well, that…
The Wolves of the Academy
aggressive eradication is seldom pleasant since the aim is usually humiliation, not just correcting falsehoods. On the plus side, this mockery helps clear the marketplace of intellectual idiocy, and the…
Before You Donate to Your Alma Mater…
the top ten percent of their high school class. If there is a contest to pick the “Harvard of the Midwest,” Macalester is a contender. What worries this alum, as…
How Nine Universities Pander to Campus Radicals
the fate of the humanities and the direction of our civilization. This Tulsa news comes with the regular tide bringing in the news of feckless college administrators doing all they…
The Bullying and Silencing of Students
op-ed in The New York Times suggesting that more balance was needed in the non-academic programming that was omnipresent on the campus. After the piece’s initial publication in October, there…
The Campaign to Indoctrinate – not Educate — Students Against the West
the fault of the media’s purported promotion of Islamophobia, but that the universities, too, deserved some of the blame. The article’s author, Nick Riemer, a professor of English at the…
The Four Unspoken Rules for Getting Into College
my opinion. The extreme irony of this is demonstrated by Jerome Karabel in another superb book, The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton….
Sarah Lawrence Professor Under Attack for Incorrect Thoughts
but muscular in tone, charging that college administrators across the country, are creating one-side progressive programs for college students to push students to the left. On his own campus, he…
Would a New Conservative University Level the Field?
liberal institution. The only way out of this dilemma is for conservatives to take on the higher education establishment itself. At this stage, we have to admit that education is…
Diversity Requirement at UCLA Threatens Academic Freedom
the professoriate that the credibility of their work, which is based on their reputation for expertise in their fields, would be fatally compromised if people could merely dismiss their purportedly…
The Campus Rape Culture That Never Was
consent, and only the boy is responsible, and we regard the boy as a rapist. How exactly is this equality before the law? [The Toxic Mission to Reengineer Men] Universities,…
When Identities Clash, Who Wins–Victim or Perp?
assailant, or the criminal. I just don’t think the descriptions of race are necessary,” a conclusion that was reinforced after one incident when “he realized he matched the exact description…
Academic Activists Make a Published Paper Disappear
On the contrary, they are usually delighted to have public recognition of their support for science. The ostensible reason for this request was that our paper was unrelated to Sergei’s…
Race and Gender Studies Kick Shakespeare Out of Class
This isn’t the first attempt to chart the decline of Western education. Victor Davis Hanson and Roger Kimball touched upon this Gramscian revolution in “Who Killed Homer: The Demise of…
The Growing Threat of Repressive Social Justice
the people of Ontario to protect free speech on campuses.” The Government of Ontario, according to the Government guidelines, requires universities to provide a definition of free speech based on…
How a Social Justice Mob Fired a Tenured Professor
men and women and dismissing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a vehicle for ‘endless apologies and compensation.’” The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, for readers below the 49th parallel, was…
Double Standards in NYU Sex Abuse Case
Fabrication—Here’s Why Title IX tribunals certainly can be—indeed, usually are—kangaroo courts. Yet the striking thing from the Ronell affair—based on the information conveyed in The Times article and in the…
How the U.S. Lost the Edge in Science…And How to Get it Back
required, the latter only to be revealed when one encounters fundamental problems. Add to this 99.9 percentile requirement the fact that the U.S. population is small in comparison to that…
The Liberal-Conservative Dance on Campus Free Speech
the bill, FIRE, also came to Lawton’s defense, urging the University to reinstate her. FIRE, short for “The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, is firmly non-partisan, though some on…
A Tide Flowing Toward Free Speech on Campus
Statutes on Faculty Appointment, Promotion and Tenure (the “Faculty Statutes”). Related: U. Wisconsin Will Suspend or Expel Disrupters This was a state-level case, but the McAdams decision will weigh on…