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…
…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…
…year—it’s upper-division and graduate level only. There are no prerequisites. No math, no science. You don’t have to know a single thing about mechanical engineering, much less major in it,…
…have. It allows it to join the likes of Western Governors University and Southern New Hampshire University, on-line providers that have flourished in part because they don’t have the “for…
…(if they don’t lose their jobs) continue in these educational institutions long after the irate students have gone on to greener pastures. Or maybe not. Perhaps not using their time…
…such an “offense-takers veto” differs considerably by demographic groups. Women were much more likely than men to support the “don’t allow offensive speakers” position (36 percent vs. 23 percent), Blacks…
…They’re there to learn certain chosen and specialized body of knowledge I don’t think they would ever say that there are more to learn about biology or economics or English…
…pseudo-scientific racism, classism and all the rest. Don’t retreat to a web-based safe space and quote from J. S. Mill’s On Liberty yet one more time; one should have been…
…water bottles, fair-trade coffee, a diffident approach to pronouns—but it does not require active participation in a campaign of political advocacy. Civic Learning: “Civic learning” is learning how to be…
…counselors “specially trained in queer and trans mental health issues” and a department of disability studies. I don’t know how people felt reading it, but I can assure you it…
…WIPES OUT RESPECT AND EXCELLENCE I don’t want to dissent from Shulevitz and others who have made related arguments, but I do think that the debate between those who wish…
…vanished from the earth. Don’t let the New York Times article about the brilliant success of Wellesley graduates in the business world fool you–there’s still a glass ceiling. Don’t let…
…offense if referred to as ‘Keynesians’. At research seminars, people don’t take Keynesian theorizing seriously anymore; the audience starts to whisper and giggle to one another.” Depression Prevention Lucas and…
…HARVEY MANSFIELD: Well, again, students doubt that there really is anything fundamentally that they need to learn. And they look at themselves and say, if I don’t need to learn…
…attacking Western ideas about objective knowledge, but they don’t go far enough. You need radical Black anthropologists to finish the job of destroying the West. Allen and Jobson are perfectly…
…Tometi spoke during the week, and Cullors, while speaking of Dr. King’s legacy, said, “We don’t need a black Christian cis-normative man to take us to the Promised Land.” Tometi…
…American Revolution, are unfamiliar with the Lincoln-Douglas debates…. don’t know what separates Protestants and Catholics,” and so forth. McConnell concludes: “One thing a great university provides is education about what…
…History has come up with. There have of course been some blots on the record, but I don’t see how it can be denied that net-net, white Europeans have made…
…throughout the country. Underlying this demand are some disturbing implications that have trickled down from radical feminists decades ago: that women don’t really want (hetero)sex, that “consent” itself is manufactured…
…trick. You don’t engage the person’s arguments. You say things that discredit them as a racist or a sexist. JOHN LEO: How do they learn that? The young don’t read…
…from physics shows that “students don’t really learn from careful explanations – they learn from making mistakes….Mistakes in the frequent low-stakes quiz questions available online can force students in physics—or…
…people who don’t share their values. Especially when there are no adults around who don’t share their values. This article is reprinted with permission from Heterodox Academy. Jonathan Haidt is…
…their versions of justice? I don’t think the answer to this question is that “this generation” of American college students is just more authoritarian in their way of thinking than…
…character is more important than the color of your skin. We don’t believe that you have been victimized every time you feel guilty and we don’t issue “trigger warnings” before…
…for them).But even in this climate, a particularly egregious case occurred recently, whose ramifications continue to unfold. Don’t Mention the Slur At the University of Kansas, on November 12, during…
…sound. Politicians don’t want federal money wasted on degree mills or other dubious schools. Accreditation was thought to be a good defense against that. Back in the 1960s, when the…
…includes such august names as the University of California–Berkeley, Bowdoin, Hamilton, and Vassar. That some of the best-known colleges earn poor marks for general education doesn’t mean they don’t do…
…choices that don’t always pay off.” Yes, the data show that, which one might say is a reason to be a little more cautious in how emphatically we speak of…
Student activists pressing universities to divest from fossil fuels are of two minds about free speech. They want it for themselves, but don’t seem keen on allowing it for opponents….
…that are not really settled matters of fact. We don’t want viewpoint diversity on whether the Earth is round versus flat. But do we want everyone to share the same…
…answers don’t matter. It is that getting to the answer by imposing a “consensus” is bound to have bad results for a free people who need to learn how to…