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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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on June 24, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. More than half of the American colleges and universities that pledged to remain neutral on hot-button political issues posted in support of LGBT “pride” this June, […]
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Last year, Jordan Peterson, a professor at the University of Toronto, made news when he refused to use the invented pronouns of the transgender movement as prescribed by Canadian law (see chart). Pronouns these days are a new battleground, as recommendations admonish us all that the standard English pronouns, which traditionally distinguish she from he, […]
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On January 18, the academic leadership of Purdue University received a letter from Mark Smith, dean of the graduate school. It said: On behalf of the Diversity Leadership Team, I’d like to invite you to attend a special safe zone training session … arranged exclusively for deans, associate deans, and department heads. This, you must understand, […]
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