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…
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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…
Archive: In the News
…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…
Archive: Notable Campus News
…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…
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
…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…
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…
Stanford’s Wildly Popular ‘Self-Help’ Course
…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,…
Mitch Daniels’ Bold Move Into For-Profit Education
…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…
Student Grievance: Righting Imaginary Wrongs
…(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…
Universities, Free Speech and the Rise of the Spit-Viper Left
…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…
Self-Censorship Is Easy to Learn, Particularly in Dormitories
…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…
The Real Defense of Charles Murray: Truth Not Free Speech
…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…
The Dangerous Rise of ‘The New Civics’
…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…
I Helped Shove My College Downhill
…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…
Should Colleges Coddle the Whiners?
…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…
Nora Ephron’s Famous Talk At Wellesley’s Graduation, 1996
…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…
Don’t Look for Marxists or Keynesians in Economics Depts.
…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…
An Interview with Harvard’s Harvey Mansfield
…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…
How Anthropology Was Corrupted and Killed
…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…
Race Baiting in the Name of Justice
…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…