Peer Review is Broken: Introducing The Peerless Review
…my voice or my ideas. [Related: “Peer-Reviewed History is Dying of Wokeness”] But I chose a third way: I built my own academic journal. Last week, I debuted The Peerless…
…my voice or my ideas. [Related: “Peer-Reviewed History is Dying of Wokeness”] But I chose a third way: I built my own academic journal. Last week, I debuted The Peerless…
…of stable liberal democracies. [Related: “The SPLC Backs Woke History at James Madison’s Montpelier”] Dagomar Degroot’s “Blood and Bone, Tears and Oil” takes on 17th-century whaling history around the Norwegian…
…vitriol which animate the language of this statement reflect exactly the ideology of SJP and other anti-Israel groups who use lies, distortions of history and fact, and meaningless Marxist language…
…father of so-called “scientific history,” that is, history that does not appeal to divine intervention and other supernatural occurrences as does the work of his predecessor, Herodotus. The Peloponnesian War,…
…context of (1) Shakespeare, (2) history, and (3) the U.S. Constitution. “Kill all the lawyers” is Dick the Butcher’s call for regime change. Tocqueville is even more precise than Shakespeare:…
…its diversity work. This setback is accentuated given its history as “a Southern flagship university that for most of its history excluded racial minorities from admissions altogether.” Harvard, the forerunner…
…State University and a host of the SPLC’s “Teaching Hard History” podcast. Jeffries not only helped develop the Montpelier video, he also co-authored the SPLC’s “Teaching Hard History” framework for…
…a cross-cultural composite of moral imperatives and ideals that hold us together both as individuals and as societies. Those ideals that tend to cut across history and cultures are the…
…programs. Also consider the history of accreditation. For decades, ED forced Florida colleges to use a single regional accreditor. Now the 2019 rule and the new Florida law give Florida…
…Boas, who saw the field as a form of cultural history, rather than as a scientific quest, but as an objective inquiry without advocacy and change trappings. Along with the…
As part of an ambitious, five-year strategic plan to reinvigorate a civic education grounded in American founding principles and history, the Jack Miller Center has named Hans Zeiger as its…
…history, bureaucratic stratagem, and litigation, to name a few. CRT has matured into one of the main costs of doing business in the U.S. It works because its fictitious demons—racist…
…“develop and provide access to evidence-based civics and history curricula and programs”; $150 million per year for universities and colleges to “support civics and history educator preparation and ongoing development”;…
…was our responsibility as educators” to include this “fact” in a “new history.” She concluded by asserting that we needed to move forward toward reconciliation with “good hearts and good…
…Mahoney revives the study of statesmanship, profiling eight pivotal leaders in the history of Western civilization. Using the template Plutarch provided in his “Lives,” Mahoney highlights individuals who utilized a…
…made any kind of professional success seem unattainable. My current career as a history professor was a dream come true. But as of late, the dream has started to sour,…
…U.S. Supreme Court have so far resisted the tentacles of the woke. Religious fervor, whether manifested in theology or secular politics, has throughout history led to countless atrocities and widespread…
…of University Professors (AAUP) has had a long history of involvement in securing an important role for faculty in universities, calling for “shared governance,” accepting that the governing board typically…
…Chen-yuan, chairman of Taiwan’s Overseas Chinese Affairs Council, explains that unlike CIs, TCs do not teach communism or a whitewashed version of Chinese history. This is to be expected, of…
…spent in dependent gaping at my phone or computer. I also infer from history that should I be sent to the new Gulag, the ability to recite from memory would…
…other, but the question is whether there is sufficient commonality to arrange a single narrative. Of course, there are common histories. However, it is impossible for even one history to…
…from some universities. Fortunately, that historic type of prejudice has all but disappeared today. Yet we are now at a moment in our history when the progress we have made…
…wanted to “tell the truth,” however uncomfortable, Rebeldita (or her abuelita) would have been more sanguine about Abya Yala’s history (see Figure 1). The complete history of the continent would…
…This insulting account of California’s recent ballot history on the issues of civil rights and affirmative action is intentionally blind to the fact that leaders of both the 1996 initiative…
…The norms for English grammar, amazingly enough, are rooted in Western history, which, believe it or not, has included a lot of white people (and a lot of other folks,…
…history of Harvard and its colonial context. Slavery is part of that history, but hardly the most important part. And is there really “contemporary injustice”? If so, how does it…
…of unsuspecting kids with . . . political brainwashing and to prejudice them against any progressive program of social uplift,” as a reviewer for Current Affairs recently wrote. [Related: “History,…
…flawed logic too. Anyone who ‘chooses’ to use a derogatory label that has a long history of harm knowing that it will perpetuate harm is never well intentioned, and as…
…are brief and, as we know all too well, exceedingly fragile. Even under ideal circumstances, repressive urges abound. Being on the wrong side of history is bad enough; being on…
…and is therefore out of bounds for academia. 3. On the flip side, legislators should require robust core curricula in Western literature, philosophy, history, music, art, and more for all…