Bow Down to Diversity or Risk Your Academic Career
…fully in any future diversity efforts should you be hired. The university has big plans to diversify its student population, so if you can say something like the following, the…
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Why This Is a Very Scary Time for Young Men
…of disbelief. Accusations of male sexual harassment were exploding from the university campuses to the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies, begetting the #MeToo movement. The most memorable perpetrators of sexual…
Should We Believe Whatever a Woman Says About Sexual Assault?
…of Education, and many university administrators and bureaucrats, especially the university “equity, inclusion, and diversity” officers. Should we believe whatever a woman says? Perhaps we should start with a complementary…
Ending Anti-Asian Discrimination at Harvard: Plan B
…debate is fundamental to the university’s intellectual mission. Such deference also undermines creativity and innovation, particularly in the sciences. At The Max Institute, the once hopelessly recalcitrant will learn the…
Academic Activists Make a Published Paper Disappear
…of whom are University of Chicago professors. The previous October, the conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens had called Zimmer “America’s Best University President.” The week after I wrote…
The Growing Threat of Repressive Social Justice
Most professors and students in the social sciences, humanities, education, social work, and law, and most university officials at Canadian and American universities today have adopted a political ideology labelled…
Five Reasons Why Student Loans Are a Looming Disaster
…the financial future of tens of millions of Americans and the government’s own solvency. Dressed up as a progressive achievement, it is actually a failure – or more accurately, at…
Teaching Madison as Slaveholder, not as Author of the Constitution
…comes to understand American slavery,” says Hasan Kwame Jeffries, associate professor of history at Ohio State University. Jeffries can be heard speaking in the Legacies of Slavery video about the…
Liberal Journos Fume at Decision to Protect Academic Freedom
…that the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in favor of a conservative professor whose academic freedom rights were violated by Marquette University. It effectively fired him for a blog post that…
Is Affirmative Action Near Its Expiration Date?
…has led to much handwringing over the fate of Roe v. Wade, the future of “another landmark case,” Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), is also at…
Harvard, Not Trump, Could Kill Affirmative Action
…about his experience interviewing candidates. “What I couldn’t understand during my 20 years as an alumni interviewer for Harvard University,” he wrote, “was why my college and other schools seemed…
Are Alumni Pulling the Policy Strings in Academia?
In an attempt to pressure and embarrass Duke University’s President Vincent Price, an undergraduate student group, known as the “People’s State of the University,” interrupted the President’s speech during an…
Why Are So Many Campus Feminists Anti-Male?
…sure enough, my speaking engagements on campus went from more than I could handle to the following experience at the University of Toronto in 2012. A campus association at the…
Archive: In the News
…6 Big Brother: The Future of Ivy League Fraternities Yale Daily News, May 6 Why I’m a Men’s Rights Activist Washington Examiner, May 6 College Campuses Should be Neutral Places…
Stung by Charlottesville Riot, UVA Limits Free Speech
for exam periods, is now at least temporarily restricted to those with University identification, and a group of students and faculty demanded that the university bar Kessler from campus. As…
Those Darling Duke Student Protesters
…have a bright future ahead.” The students’ own vision for Duke’s future, however, evidently required what they later called a public show of their “activism,” which wasn’t satisfied by the…
The Battle Over Pronouns Coming to a College Near You
Last year, Jordan Peterson, a professor at the University of Toronto, made news when he refused to use the invented pronouns of the transgender movement as prescribed by Canadian law…
A New Book Takes On 500 Years of Modern Liberalism
…over our discourse makes it hard to imagine and describe a post-liberal future. At another, he contends that the absence of standards defining that future is a virtue. Since one…
Exclusive: New Harvard Prez Nearly Won “Sheldon” Award
…named for the late Sheldon Hackney, the former president of the University of Pennsylvania and the Babe Ruth of modern Sheldonism. As president of Tufts University, Lawrence Bacow looked the…
Is Half of College Education Wasted?
…Money, may lower your self-esteem. This is a serious, “academic” effort, six-years-in-the-making, and while Caplan, an economist at George Mason University and the Cato Institute, can be witty, this is…
The New Campus Anti-Americanism
…class. What it really detests is American culture. More than classic anti-Americanism, RAA is a creature of higher education. Yes, old-style radicals were a feature of the American university since…
The Surprising Strength of the Millennials
…previous generation studied in The Freshman Survey, Millennials value family life and want to replicate that with their own families in the future. But, despite their conventional and civic-minded attitudes,…
Popping the Higher Education Bubble
…raising costs and making university finances more precarious. Thus university presidents often seem oblivious to political reality –the world outside the Ivory Tower. A Nightmare Future of Higher Education It…
Colleges’ Double Standards: Taking Soros’ Money, Rejecting Koch’s
…University of Dayton no longer accepts Koch cash, and it will not in the future—despite the efforts of Koch-backed organizations.” The faculty at the University of Dayton are barred from…
How Identity Politics Boosts College Conservatives
…citing concrete political activities by her students, she resorts to feel-good clichés such as “a shared concern about our future,” “who are taking our future in their hands,” “they are…
Professor-Student Sex—Just a Problem of Dirty Old Men?
…their triumph over another male oppressor, one small step along the path toward a glorious future. He’s glad to be out of that future and headed into his own.” In…
‘We Made This (Harassment) Law Up From the Beginning and Now We’ve Won’
…sub-legal system that regularly suspends the routine legal protections most Americans assume will govern when an accusation is made. In my 1998 book Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of…
The Purge of the Deviants May Go Too Far
…than one hundred years ago, Durkheim argued that the reason acts of deviance are identified and publicly punished is because defining deviant behavior reinforces social order, and inhibits future deviance….
The Decline of the Humanities and Who’s to Blame
…extraordinary developments in the humanities, exciting formations such as French feminism and sexuality studies. If the conservatives and traditionalists predicted a dark future of the humanities, well, that was just…
When Students Kill Important College Courses
…needs not to observe old, time-encrusted commandments handed down from the Year One, but can decide the course of his own future through reason and deliberation. Lewis responds, simply, that…