Called a ‘Pest’ for Exposing Anti-Semitism at Sarah Lawrence

I recently published an article detailing the pervasive anti-Semitic environment at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC), where I have been a faculty member for the past fifteen years. In it, I presented troubling facts about the rise of anti-Semitism on the New York-based campus and shared my perspective on SLC’s handling of these issues. Rather than […]

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Drunken Parties and Exotic Trips—Indirect Costs Must Be Slashed

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it is cutting indirect costs to a maximum of 15 percent. What should we make of this effort? Let’s begin by asking a simple question: what are indirect costs? For a research project, there are some costs that are directly attributable to that project such as the […]

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Oh, Those Pesky Americans

Author’s Note: This excerpt is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, which goes out to subscribers every Thursday. This particular edition was sent on September 19, 2024. It is crossposted here in observance of Presidents Day, honoring George Washington’s pivotal role in securing American independence. For more content like this and to receive the […]

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Over 500 COVID-19 Studies Retacted for ‘Unreliable’ Information, Says Watchdog

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on February 14, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. More than 500 studies on COVID-19 have been withdrawn due to “bias,” “unreliable” information, or unspecified reasons, a blog that tracks retracted documents, found. Retraction Watch co-founder Ivan Oransky told […]

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An End to the Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino? RFK Might Finally Make College Food Nutritious

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed yesterday to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. A key point throughout the hearing was his criticism of processed foods and his promise to “reverse the chronic disease epidemic.” Although Kennedy faced pushback from Democrat senators about his past remarks on vaccine inefficiencies and was accused of […]

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Universities Are Profiting Off Federal Research Grants at Taxpayers’ Expense—Trump Reforms Could Curb the Abuse

The Trump Administration has proposed a much-needed reform of how we reimburse so-called “overhead expenses” associated with federal research grants made by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is reasoned that research activity financed by the Feds involves not only paying researchers, buying lab equipment, and some travel but also increases needed administrative oversight, […]

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The Right Is Right—Conservative-Led Reforms Are Not Threats to Higher Ed

Author’s Note: This excerpt is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full newsletter each week, sign up on Minding the Campus’s homepage. Simply go to the right side of the page, look for “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” and […]

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The AAUP Warns Against ‘Anticipatory Obedience’—But It Only Opposes Federal Power It Doesn’t Control

Last week, the president of my university’s Faculty Senate blasted out a warning—courtesy of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Their latest statement, Against Anticipatory Obedience, treats the second Trump administration as an existential threat to academia. The message to faculty? Brace yourselves—and whatever you do, don’t comply in advance. The AAUP asserts that […]

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The American University in Crisis: A War on Science, Faculty, and Freedom

The American university is in distress. Enrollment is declining, tenure is disappearing, administrative costs are ballooning, and public trust in academia is eroding. More concerning, however, is the deeper structural crisis that has transformed universities from bastions of knowledge into battlegrounds of ideological warfare and administrative overreach. At the heart of this crisis lies a […]

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Breaking Up with Accreditors: A Satirical Contract for Academic Freedom

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published on the author’s Substack Diogenes In Exile on January 10, 2025. With edits to fit MTC’s style, it is crossposted here with permission. What if accreditors were directly accountable to the people their standards affected the most, students? It would be so much […]

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Anthropology in Crisis: Elizabeth Weiss Faces the Challenges of a Politicized Discipline

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on January 25, 2025. 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. San Jose State University Elizabeth Weiss, a physical anthropologist and professor […]

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Sarah Lawrence’s Hollow Promises—’Inclusion’ Excludes Jews

I recently spoke with a senior at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC), where I have taught for 15 years. We had never met before. The student hopes to graduate this spring, but that remains uncertain. Now at home, taking classes remotely, unsure if graduation will be possible. The students stays away out of fear. As a […]

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No Borders, No Merit, No Justice: The Bizarre Philosophy of Our Intellectual Elite

“Is there any good principled reason not to have open borders?” That is a quote from Harvard professor Michael Sandel in “Two of the World’s Leading Thinkers on How the Left Went Astray,” a New York Times article published on Jan 18. The piece promotes two stars in the progressive pantheon: Sandel and French economist Thomas […]

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The Grown Ups are Back: On Gender, Trump Replaces Confusion and Chaos with Clarity and Common Sense

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by American Greatness on February 11, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission.  Last week, the Trump Administration continued its campaign for common sense: On February 5, the President signed the executive order (“EO”) Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports, restoring sanity to athletics […]

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Is It Time to Retire Social and Emotional Learning?

President Trump is determined to repair American education. He has started out with bold moves, including the demolition of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) ideology, the elimination of men from women’s sports, and taking steps against campus anti-Semitism. Yet much remains to be done. Now that DEI has been called out as a form of […]

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College Football’s Lost Virtue

The Most Beautiful Game There has always been something special about college football. From the passion to the pageantry, this game exemplifies the true spirit of America—a force so powerful it can unite total strangers and divide close families. Tribal to its very core, football fans of all ages perform rites and rituals, embrace their […]

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Ending Racial Preferences

One day after President Biden’s inaugural address stressing national unity, he signed an “Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.” He created another Executive Order in February 2023, this time expanding the equity mandate to the operation of every federal program. These executive orders (EOs) had a […]

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Higher Ed Is Resisting Reform—Why Laws Can’t Win the Culture War

For the first time in a long time, conservatives and heterodox thinkers seem to be getting the upper hand in the culture war. At the federal level, executive orders such as those ending federal “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs, combatting racial discrimination in institutions that receive federal funding, and pushing back against radical transgenderism […]

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Winston Churchill’s Reception and Influence in the United States

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the Ford Forum on January 30, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission.  Recently historians from many nations commemorated the birth 150 years ago of one of the most remarkable political figures in modern times. Before his death in 1965 at […]

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What Was Britain to Do?

On February 9, 1775, the Parliament of Great Britain declared Massachusetts in a state of rebellion. With cause: Massachusetts’ Provincial Congress had met without royal leave and was organizing and training a military force. Massachusetts’ disobedience could no longer be ignored. Now, Britain would arm itself for war. Orders sailed to Governor Thomas Gage in […]

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