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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…