UChicago’s Self-Made Crisis
…of its staff and freezing admissions to 19 doctoral programs in the 2026–27 academic year—almost all of which are in the liberal arts and humanities, including anthropology, political economy, English,…
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Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, and the Classroom That Learned Nothing
…especially for young people deciding what adulthood should look like. In anthropology or religion, the discussion could have examined ritual. Even in an age of radical individualism, America’s most famous…
Qatar and China Raise Eyebrows on Campus—What About Germany?
…to teach courses on politics, history, anthropology, and philosophy. They are paid in part by DAAD and supervised with a clearly defined mandate to represent German national interests. While they…
The Hypocrisy of Professors Calling Sydney Sweeney a Nazi Poster Girl
…white, blonde-haired, blue-eyed actress—to sell jeans is a dog whistle for white supremacy. [RELATED: Nurture, Not Nature] Northwestern anthropology professor Shalini Shankar, for example, accused American Eagle of “aligning themselves…
Support for Fabrice Balanche
…Honorary Lecturer at Panthéon-Assas University Christophe de Voogd, Doctor of History, Associate Researcher at Sciences Po Albert Doja, Professor of Anthropology, University of Lille Frédéric Encel, Professor of Geopolitics Jean-François…
California’s Race-Based Pregnancy Payouts Backed by Dubious Studies
…Another piece of research, which is cited as evidence of “obstetric racism,” or racism in pregnancy, labor, and birthing, is a Medical Anthropology article by an anthropologist who analyzes “the…
Of Pain and Pedagogy—What We Sacrifice When We Learn with AI
…strange when we realize that the separate disciplines of sociology, anthropology, psychology, political science, economics and so on are simply academic silos tied to different jargon, funding sources, tenure, publications;…
Stand Up for Science? Try Standing Up for Scientists Shunned for Thinking Freely
…authorities, leading to his firing? When, on the Columbia campus and some others, anti-Semitic students morally harassed and physically brutalized Jewish students? [RELATED: Anthropology in Crisis: Elizabeth Weiss Faces the…
A New Book Tells the Truth About Campus Investigations
…Sidky’s Postmodern Purge: Right on Anthropology, Wrong on Balance] American colleges and universities have become shockingly like that. It’s easy for any disaffected individual to lodge a complaint against a…
Sidky’s Postmodern Purge: Right on Anthropology, Wrong on Balance
…“elite capture” of American anthropology by sophisticated European charlatans. Instead, he tries to show that although only a tiny minority in academia maintain the core ideas of contemporary postmodern anthropology,…
Median Cost of Attendance is a Great Idea
…COA. Technically, this is done at the credential and academic field level—e.g., a bachelor’s degree in business would have a different MCOA than the master’s degree in anthropology but the…
In Memoriam: David Horowitz
…protests in 1963, but by the 1980s, he was under the guiding star of people like Jeane Kirkpatrick. As a newly minted Ph.D. in anthropology in 1987, Westling appointed me…
What an Anthropologist Learned from Living Among Other Societies
…farther up the genealogy you go, the larger the groups encompassed. [RELATED: Anthropology in Crisis: Elizabeth Weiss Faces the Challenges of a Politicized Discipline] The significance of these groups is…
Getting Booked
…more potent than witness. Take that, Thucydides. I can’t end this without putting in a word for my own field, anthropology. As an academic field, anthropology is thriving; as an…
Should the U.S. Close Its Graduate Law Schools?
…extend its university research claims. Anthropology and sociology are two other prominent examples that feed the university system with area studies.) Unfortunately, the law academy has found a way to…
A Neglected American Classic
…young man when he was an anthropology and theology student here in pre-WWII North Carolina, his home state. Sacred Harp lyrics speak of wonder, gratitude, sin, and salvation and recount…
The War Against Western Civilization
…to recruit more feminists. But feminists were not isolated in their particular grievance studies units, but infiltrated sociology, anthropology, political science, and all of the social sciences, as well as…
States Must Pass the Professional Association Liberty Act to Defend Academic Freedom from Woke Censorship
In 2023, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) canceled an accepted session from their annual conference: “Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in anthropology.”…
Trump’s Cuts Are Exposing Academia’s Biggest Myth
…psychology departments in the United States still offer a class in social psychology. In anthropology, cultural anthropology dominates the classroom, where students learn that differences in characteristics like individualism are…
Social Sciences and Wokeness: Why France Is a Special Case
…two short publications where I highlighted the different periods of militant influence at the University and, specifically, in the social sciences—sociology, political science, anthropology, history: not only the Marxist influence…
A Review of “Don’t Go To College”
…young professors, 16:1 for female professors, 42.2:1 for those in Anthropology faculties, and 26.8:1 for members of English departments. Hatred of Western civilization is a leitmotif with students likewise indoctrinated,…
The Influence of Identity Ideologies on ‘Psy’ Practices
…which determine repression: the unconscious is, therefore, immoral by nature. Hypermorality promotes, on the contrary, a two-dimensional anthropology, that is to say, an individual without depth, transparent to himself and…
Anthropology in Crisis: Elizabeth Weiss Faces the Challenges of a Politicized Discipline
…Jose State University, is the unwilling embodiment of the controversy that is shaking anthropology. With nearly 70 scientific articles and seven published books, this skeletal remains specialist is at the…
Back to Stick Figures: How Woke Warriors Destroyed Anthropology
…enforce a similar policy. One exception is the American Association of Biological Anthropology, which publishes the prestigious American Journal of Biological Anthropology. This organization specifies that the requirement to obtain…
2025: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
2024 was a devasting year for anthropology and archaeology. The new regulations in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and the newly passed additions to California’s repatriation…
A Faculty Guide to AI Pedagogy and a Socratic Experiment
…improbable guesses when compared to the actual text. The goal was to discover the underlying logic in the Joy of Fishes. This was a class in cultural anthropology and it…
Brown University Betrayed History and Donors
…that the public could enjoy both. And for sixty years, Brown did that— creating an Anthropology program around the museum and preserving the 376 acres of land for the public…
What Can We Do About Our Corrupted Universities?
…female professors in sociology, anthropology, English, history, education, social work, etc. In this way, it infiltrated back into departments throughout the university. [RELATED: A Feminist Bothered by ‘Everything’] Feminist studies,…
Search for Truth
…of Peace, Freedom, Harmony, and Prosperity has just five sections: Education Structure: Admissions Requirements, Discipline, Pedagogy, and Exit Requirements. Life Sciences: Anatomy, Biology, Botany, Zoology, Anthropology, Nursing, Medical Assistance, Self-Discipline,…
San José State’s Dispiriting Volleyball Saga
…for access to the curation facility in my field of anthropology, the university inserted sex-discriminatory regulations, stating that henceforth, “menstruating personnel will not be permitted to handle” the human remains…