A Micro Canon: My Three Essential Books
At the age of ten, while running on my family’s patio I slipped and put my arm through the window of the kitchen door. I paused to marvel. I hadn’t…
At the age of ten, while running on my family’s patio I slipped and put my arm through the window of the kitchen door. I paused to marvel. I hadn’t…
…be offered online or eliminated, or by contracting out some non-instructional expenses to private entrepreneurs. Some universities operate their own bus systems, for instance. Is that efficient? In my opinion,…
…at this ripe age the captain of a ten-man bomber aircraft, and often a group or even squadron leader, responsible for hundreds of lives and the conduct and performance of…
…our students and high-level work in our GAships when we cannot afford to put food on our tables? When we regularly have to choose between paying rent or purchasing for…
…for faculty was Ibram X. Kendi’s, How to Be an Antiracist. In the online meetings that ensued, faculty self-censored and open discussion was quashed. Meanwhile, the college has done nothing…
…turn raises the question why parents should shell out tens of thousands of dollars every year for their children to attend college, when they can learn free online, get accredited…
…of the residential school burials, in which it tried to trump them up as clandestine burials of murdered children rather than state the obvious: children who died were given Christian…
…top schools now offer free online lectures. Indeed, why even enroll if most of what you need can be found on YouTube for free? The use of virtual classrooms during…
…appearance on the panel was garbled and rushed. Stanley’s contribution would have been interesting, as he is currently studying millenarian cults and how science has been co-opted into their end-of-the-world…
…in the face of an overwhelming bombardment. As the scientific foundations of published research have been weakened by junk citations, the undisciplined ideologies and agendas of researchers have been given…
…Hunter Biden. This laptop, the Post alleged, contained information that was damaging to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign because it proved that he met with his son’s Ukrainian business partners and…
…enter the discipline of STEM. [Related: “Helping Gen Z Do Science: Cultivating the Written Word”] I have taken the ten suggestions a step further, incorporating them into both of my…
…titled “Environmental Inequality in the American Mind: The Problem of Color-Blind Environmental Racism.” Bugden’s article, the applicant asserted, “revealed that the dominant explanatory factor” for citizens’ diverse views about the…
…political distortions that students have often been subjected to for seven or more years in a U.S. university law program (undergrad and graduate school) make that necessary objectivity a more…
Background Traditional liberal arts courses were the cornerstone of Western Civilization curricula but have fallen out of favor in American academia, where they have been gradually replaced by progressive ideologies….
On March 2, the magazine of record for professional librarians in the United States, Library Journal, will host an online seminar entitled “Resisting Book Bans.” On the surface, the seminar…
…policies that do not condone racial discrimination against any individual. Indeed, the men and women who today enter our service academies and federally funded ROTC programs, and who otherwise volunteer…
…Roberts is at the heart of the ensuing controversy. A psychologist named Bernhard Hommel, at the University of Dresden in Germany, then submitted a commentary titled “Dealing with diversity in…
…to ensure that those with “chemical sensitivities” could attend the conference in comfort. COVID precautions and comfort ribbons. One particularly ironic talk was about online mothers’ groups whose members teach…
…men dominated.” Predictably, when faced with the loads of derision that were heaped upon her, Professor Cohen played the victim card. Interestingly, she did acknowledge that she had won the…
…a trendier alternative: online education. When most people read that, they immediately think of MOOCs—Massive Open Online Courses—and I will indeed weigh the strengths and weaknesses of these courses. But…
…when in fact they were in incubators, supplying electrochemical energy to the AI machines. Though the movie is entertaining science fiction, in our own lived reality truth is often stranger…
…trouble. Women like Selina Todd, Ann Henderson, and Kathleen Stock have discovered that one’s physical safety—not psychological or cultural safety—can be jeopardized when challenging this particular strand of wokeism (that…
…tweet from Wen to Krispy Kreme asking that they refrain from giving away free donuts to encourage vaccination. Wen is research professor of health policy and management at George Washington…
…leftists who make up the vast majority of English professors in America. When I finished graduate school, I found immediate success in publishing my work in high-profile academic journals. But…
…the instructors and interpreters of it.”2 [Related: “When a Chemistry Journal Publishes a Sociologist on Climate and Energy”] If there had not been copyists and interpreters, there would have been…
…share their personal pronouns in their email signatures, online profiles, and even nametags. There are thousands of videos online illustrating the multitude of pronouns that are being used and how…
…For decades, anthropology has notoriously been riven by conflict between scientific and political activist factions, leading many departments to split in two, but UCLA’s department remained unusually peaceful, cohesive, and…
…In fact, when in 2017 Palestinian terrorists killed four people and injured 17 others by ramming them with a vehicle on a Jerusalem promenade, Kiswani lauded and encouraged the celebration…
…them. These young people increasingly do not read books or anything else longer than online writings designed to be consumed (and then, in all likelihood, promptly forgotten) in under five…