Montgomery Toms is not your average 20-year-old. In an age when conformity is celebrated and silence is often the safest path, Toms has chosen resistance. Since the age of fourteen, he has been a vocal opponent of authoritarianism in all its modern forms—from government overreach to the cultural mandates of political correctness. He has marched […]
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Last month at an academic freedom conference in England, a friend from a traditional part of the Middle East jokingly dismissed the sea of Pride flags festooning Oxford as the new “flags of the empire.” They observed that Pride flags outnumbered the Union Jack, the United Kingdom’s flag and that of the old British Empire, […]
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The year is 1901, and the British Empire rules the waves. The small island nation’s maritime empire crisscrosses the globe, governing over twenty-five percent of the world’s population. As a blue power, Britain’s national strategy is to protect its trade networks, ensure freedom of navigation for its merchants, maintain the balance of power in Europe, […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the Ford Forum on January 30, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Recently historians from many nations commemorated the birth 150 years ago of one of the most remarkable political figures in modern times. Before his death in 1965 at […]
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Two noteworthy overseas higher-ed items recently crossed my desk. The first came from Britain, where the coalition government has decided to rework the nation’s science instructional standards. Among the proposed changes: eliminating the requirement that science classes “challenge injustice.” Education Secretary Michael Gove argued that such “irrelevant material” contributes “nothing to helping students deepen their stock of knowledge.” While it’s […]
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“Women’s Studies is about to disappear as an undergraduate degree in the UK” reads an astonishing line from a recent Times Higher Education (London) story. I assumed it was a joke. Not so. The article profiled the “last stand-alone undergraduate degree in women’s studies” in the UK at London Metropolitan University, the remnant of what […]
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