How Low Can Higher Education Go?
…don’t get an informed citizenry. The damage is not just to those who don’t learn anything at all. The better students show some improvement in their writing and reasoning skills,…
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The Power of Liberal Peer Condemnation on Conservatives
…and all his supporters very well might. The bigger story here is that many young Americans have failed to learn the basics of pluralism and the First Amendment. They don’t…
The Real Reason for Racial Achievement Gaps
…don’t want to damage the self-esteem of minority students. Accordingly, they have lower expectations and set lower standards for minorities to offset the advantages that white students have from “white…
Jordan Peterson: Torture by Bad Journalism
…white man” remark that he didn’t think to cite his very profession in response. The whole idea of “you-don’t-listen” may have struck him as so absurd that he couldn’t come…
Survey Confirms Unfairness of Campus Title IX on Due Process
…“to develop a deeper understanding of their behaviors and the trauma caused to others”? The authors don’t say. [Fake Claims of Rape Due to Trauma Are Under Scrutiny] The issue…
The Humanities Throw in the Towel
…history, the humanities today are beset by declining student enrollments and a sharp drop in academic prestige. The troubles, however, don’t stop there. If in doubt, consider the new exhibit…
A Racially “Woke” Agenda Is Now Hardwired in Public Schools
…and communities of color.” Therefore, Seattle will “rehumanize” math. Students who still don’t get it will have the excuse that math is somehow unfair to people of color, a notion…
The Slow and Tortuous Death of the GRE
…follows from losing the GRE. “What do they know that we don’t?” If a process without a GRE secures a few more students of color in the mix, the officers…
College Summer Reading: A Mandated Dive Into ‘Oppressed Minorities’
…“just a normal guy” who “loves to sleep in” and likes Netflix, take-out, “spending money on stuff I don’t need,” and “silly cat videos on YouTube.” He writes in colloquial…
The Garden of College Excellence Is Growing Weeds
…– extramural research, athletics, community relations, programs in countries that don’t share American ideals, much less Kronman’s — in concert with people and institutions who neither share not understand it….
When Radical Ideologies Corrupt Universities
…students being loud, obnoxious, and ignorant. “See?” she remarked sardonically. “This is what happens when Western parents don’t teach their kids to respect authority.” Bulgarians and most Eastern Europeans for…
The Wolves of the Academy
…You don’t have to be J. Robert Oppenheimer to devastate campus airheads, space cadets, snowflakes, social justice warriors, hare-brained cultural Marxists and others who traffic in comic stupidities. So, when…
A Fantasy for the Sexes
…At work, women exchange knowing smiles signifying that men ‘Just don’t get it.” Finally, some men are organizing around the issue of emotional harassment, the problem that hitherto has had…
How Diversity Hijacked History 101 and All the Humanities
…sliding; programs are disappearing. I don’t even want to link to any reports showing waning numbers such as the stunning fact reported by the Modern Language Association that 650 programs…
Why More and More Students Won’t Speak Up in Class
…way of giving them the confidence to find their voice.’ Don’t Become Judged After reflecting on the problem of the silent seminar and discussing this problem with some undergraduates, I…
Why Men Are Falling Behind in Schools
…compared to 19.5% of girls. There is an equally large gender divide in terms of overall school marks.” [Report: 74% of All Colleges Don’t Uphold Due Process for Accused Students]…
Reminding Us Why Racial Preferences are a Bad Idea
Jason Riley, one of my favorite writers, is black and opposes racial preferences (for all groups) on the grounds that they don’t solve underlying problems, sow discord, and become a…
Race and Gender Studies Kick Shakespeare Out of Class
…conservative thought, a war that if you don’t win, you perish. “Civility is shrinking and civil peace may be in jeopardy. Masked anarchists use force to block conservatives from speaking…
DeVos Urges Campuses to Promote Free Speech
…“injurious” or ones they just don’t like. This patronizing practice assumes students are incapable of grappling with, learning from or responding to ideas with which they disagree. Such limits on…
The Coming Implosion After Diversity’s Victory
…that they remained in place and hired people loyal to their vision. Now, diversity means just that: getting more underrepresented people in place. That’s all. The campus managers don’t think…
Publish and Perish: The Zero Sum Game of Literary Research
…includes dissertations, books, chapters, essays, reviews, editions, and note and queries. The answer to the second: barely at all. From what I found, most works of scholarship don’t even earn…
The Overthrow of the Great Books
…by our colleagues. Administrators, you see, are not the problem (Emory’s leadership has been quite helpful with conservative-oriented programs in recent years). It’s the other professors who don’t want to…
How ‘White’ Western History Has Become an SNL Skit on Campus
…his Catholic institution. One thing we can be sure of when we read such things by the Stanford historian and the Holy cross theologian: they don’t give a thought to…
Jordan Peterson Provokes the Angry SJWs
…are listening to might know something you don’t.” They just don’t make fascist mystics the way they used to. Either that or the vitriol of reviewers for progressive journals is…
Is Half of College Education Wasted?
…rational for an MIT student to enroll in as many fluff courses as possible from easy grading professors since employers cannot tell the difference and, to some extent, don’t care….
‘We Made This (Harassment) Law Up From the Beginning and Now We’ve Won’
…are obviously presenting themselves as objects of desire. Does anyone seriously believe that men are forcing women to display themselves like this? That women don’t flirt, don’t make provocative comments…
Teaching Millennials How Not to Think Stupid
…time, they do not promote understanding. Don’t Tell Us What You Feel In fact, “isms” prevent you from learning. You have been taught to slap an “ism” on things that…
Disrupting Campus Speakers Is Not Just A Free-Speech Problem
…campuses, the rudeness has appeared mostly among members of the progressive left who have lately adopted tactics such as shouting down speakers they don’t like, invading classrooms, and barging uninvited…
Protecting Academic Freedom Through All the Campus Smoke
…the heat is intense, and the goal keeps changing. I have good friends in Santa Rosa and don’t mean my metaphor to diminish the awful reality of the devastating California…
The Revolution Turns on Its Base
…especially since many of these students don’t believe in historicity or objective facts (they denounce the latter as being a tool of the white cis-heteropatriarchy).” Denying facts and running roughshod…