Where Were You, Obama?
…Where were you in 2015 when students at Yale University berated Nicholas Christakis over failing to create a “safe space” and demanded his resignation over hysteria about Halloween costumes and…
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End Athletic Admissions to Military Academies
…Colonel Richard Anderson. I am not hopeful. The same sociological forces which drive Yale to favor less academically talented lacrosse players affect admissions decisions at the Air Force Academy. This…
The Trickle-Down Strawman—It’s How Leftists Incite Public Outrage Against Tax Cuts
…philosophy, politics, and economics at some of the world’s most prestigious institutions, including Oxford and Yale, recently reminded his 3.8 million followers on Facebook: [T]rickle-down economics was invented by conservatives…
The Convenient Projection of Samuel Freedman on Kevin Roberts: Unpacking the Biases of Progressive Paternalism
…be a form of class anxiety—not economic, but academic. His disdain for Roberts mirrors the broader intellectual establishment’s reaction to figures like J.D. Vance (J.D., Yale University) or Josh Hawley…
The Rebel Campus Boosters Rising Up Against Wokeness on Campus
…universities have formed campus chapters, such as the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard, the Princeton Council on Academic Freedom, and kindred faculty groups at Yale, MIT, Columbia, and Duke….
The Return of Campus Encampments: Ideological Echo Chambers
…wave French critical theory who has held appointments at Columbia University, the Brookings Institution, the University of Penn, Berkeley, Yale, and Duke, among others outside the United States. Mbembe’s now…
‘A Slave to DEI’—Baylor Twists Scripture to Justify Slavery Memorial
…cultural pressures, forcing them to choose between remaining faithful to their founding principles or conforming to progressive ideologies. Some, like Harvard and Yale, abandoned their theological roots long ago. For…
A Groundbreaking, Unprecedented, Never-Before-Seen Discovery—That’s Been Noted for Decades
…YubaNet.com, Latin Times, the Straits Times, LAist, ChipChick, Firstpost, and more. Popular science magazines, such as Smithsonian, Earth.com, Popular Science, ScienceDaily, Yale Environment 360, University of California, SciTechDaily, StudyFinds, Gizmodo,…
Drunken Parties and Exotic Trips—Indirect Costs Must Be Slashed
…for NIH grants was around 27-28 percent. But some universities have negotiated much higher rates. For example, the NIH announcement noted that Harvard’s rate is 69 percent, Yale’s is 67.5…
The American University in Crisis: A War on Science, Faculty, and Freedom
…several decades, the number of non-teaching university administrators has skyrocketed, often outnumbering faculty. Some institutions, such as Yale, now employ more administrators than undergraduate students. Administrative growth has been accompanied…
Let’s Hear It From the Faculty
…liberal) say that it is often or always justifiable to require such statements. Interestingly, respondents from many elite schools (Stanford, Yale, Harvard, Chicago, Northwestern, Dartmouth, and Berkeley) display low levels…
Academic Freedom and Self-Censorship
…sense], the more they said they would discriminate.” A renowned psychologist, Paul Bloom, a professor at Yale University and then at the University of Toronto, analyzes the question of self-censorship….
Do Ivy League Degrees Matter for Leadership Success?
…23 Democratic governors attended one of the eight Ivy League schools—three went to Harvard—compared with only one of 27 Republican governors—Florida’s Ron DeSantis, who attended Yale. Although often championing themselves…
Universities and the Battle for Ideological Supremacy
…Protestants fought a guerrilla war in Northern Ireland through the 20th century. Attacks on Hindus by Muslims in Bangladesh are current in 2024. [RELATED: Yale Muslims: Hurt Feelings but No…
What Can We Do About Our Corrupted Universities?
…job applicants from certain elite universities: Stanford, Yale, and Harvard law schools have had their reputations questioned and their graduates boycotted. A few American states—Florida, Texas, Oklahoma—have banned DEI racism…
Law Schools Have Created Two Legal Systems, Two Teaching Standards, and Two Personalities
…of personal and professional identity. Follow Matthew Andersson on X. [1] An example comes from a Yale Law professor, undergraduate college teacher and resident advisor, Samuel Moyn, who writes in…
The Party of the Well-Educated Offers the Least Well-Educated Candidates
…Yale, he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal—one of nine—an honor similarly achieved by such notable as former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. He subsequently practiced corporate…
Trump’s Economic Policy Is Straight Out of UChicago
…woos and fears remains, to say the least, doubtful.” —Eugene D. Genovese, “Critical Legal Studies as Radical Politics and World View,” Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 3 (1991)….
Will the Marketplace of Ideas Promote Campus Free Speech?
…Charles Murray or Heather MacDonald? No, since these high-sounding conclaves, like all campus events, offer scant protection from fanatic disruptors. Recently, for example, more than 100 Yale law school students…
On Campus Safety, the Left Is Hopelessly Confused
…When, in July of this year, Stony Brook University’s Maurie McInnis assumed the presidency of Yale, she did so despite having narrowly avoided censure by the Stony Brook faculty senate…
Literature Has Become a Playground for Marxists
…on theory, six of them cater to ideologies of the far left such as Marxism, Postcolonialism, and Queer Theory. An introductory “Theory of Literature” course at Yale echoes this classification,…
The Ebbing of the Ivies
…scores, it never occurred to me to apply. A degree from a place like Harvard or Yale seemed utterly unattainable. I had a better chance of dating Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Forty…
Reflections on the Loss of Rigor in College Classes
…the university. Although some of our own children and grandchildren have matriculated at places such as Vanderbilt, Harvard, LSE, and Yale, I have not and would not encourage them to…
Yale Offers Beyoncé ‘Black Radical Tradition’ Class
…tradition” and “black feminist” thought is the focus of a multidisciplinary course at Yale University. “Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics through Music,” is being…
Penn’s Shameful Sanction of Amy Wax: A Blow to Free Speech and Academic Freedom
…has earned degrees from Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and Columbia, including an M.D. in neurology, in addition to her law degree. She has argued 15 cases before the Supreme Court. I…
How the Modern Law School Promotes Political Division and ‘Lawfare’
…the lower court system. His emphasis, along with Guido Calabresi of Yale Law School, on economic factors in legal decision-making has a significant pedigree. However, it might be argued that,…
Unpacking the Conspiracy of ‘Saving Democracy’
…decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people’s vote.” The late Yale professor Robert Dahl expanded on this minimalist procedure…
Law Schools Must Create a Culture That Promotes Viewpoint Diversity. Here’s How.
…who do, as we saw at Yale Law School in 2022? Law schools shouldn’t get a pass for issuing aspirational statements while perpetuating inquiry-stifling norms. To assess a law school’s…
“Techne”: The Future Students—and Parents—Want
…serve this function? (A) Sort of. Yale’s computer science majors don’t have much trouble getting software jobs after graduation. But, again, a big part of that is the screening provided…
Spellbooks, Rituals, ‘Demonology,’ Taylor Swift Rumors: Classes on Witchcraft Abound This Fall
…just incredible, it’s like a tsunami,” Yale University Professor Carlos Eire told The College Fix recently via Zoom. Eire, who teaches religion and studies the history of the supernatural, said…