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…
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…
…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…
…“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…
…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…
…10 College Majors SiLive, June 3 You Can Think It, But Don’t Dare Say It Campus Reform, June 1 A Liberal College Made Me More Conservative The Hill, June 1…
…campus exploded in outrage in 2015 when Prof. Erika Christakis challenged a Yale diktat warning students not to wear offensive costumes for Halloween. (“If you don’t like a costume someone…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…you 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…
…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….
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…with? 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…
…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…