What the Hell, and Worse
America contains multitudes. And even if we don’t have a truly common language, it pays to know how truly common our language can be.
One Angry Nation, Two Wildly Divergent Explanations
Osnos provides no insight at all into what is really happening among those of us who see ourselves as opposing a tide of illegitimate cultural authority backed by unfounded state power.
Very Fine People
These are the times that try men’s souls. Some will be found wanting. Others will come through with a pure and noble wrath.
Critical Witchcraft Theory
“Systemic racism” is not a sociological theory. It is theology. More precisely, it is a demonology: a theory of witchcraft.
Keeping Up With Nikole
North Carolina’s gain is Howard University’s loss.
A University Capitulates to the Woke Mob
Nikole Hannah-Jones, having been awarded tenure, will be around for a long time to come. If her past is prologue, the University of North Carolina can expect repeats of controversy and scandal.
When Collaboration Is Capitulation
“Consensus” in the American education establishment is not a recommendation. It is a warning.
Counterfeit Civics
“Educating for American Democracy” is the return of Common Core under a new label, this time applied to history and civics. America can only restore its civics education by rejecting EAD.
Nikole Hannah-Jones at the Summit
The Pulitzer Prize-winning force behind “The 1619 Project” has begun the descent that favored radicals of the past such as Rigoberta Menchú suffered after people began to scrutinize their claims.
Why We Need a Civics Alliance
We must act together now to restore America’s civics education.
Jon Westling, R.I.P.
Among his favorite sayings was the Latin tag, An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? (“Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?”)
Joseph Epstein, In Brief
To think that a single op-ed could elicit such an effluence of opinion and such a diluvium of print is to recognize that Epstein, who will turn 84 in January, has lost none of his touch.
Sow Political Activist Professors, Reap a Political Firestorm
Shame on the university for having appointed Garrett Felber in the first place, as it should have been clear he is far more interested in political activism than in teaching history.
The Molotov Diploma
The radicalization we see in the streets of American cities and the radicalization of American college students may look like two separate things. But they are not.
The 1619 Project and Its Critics
Nikole Hannah-Jones ought to step up, be courageous, and debate the historians with whom she disagrees. They’re waiting. All historical claims, particularly those with as wide-reaching and radical ramifications as these, must be discussed and scrutinized by trained scholars.
U Need a Shine?
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A Million-Dollar Punch
President Trump on March 2 announced he would issue an executive order addressing free speech on college and university campuses. The order itself hasn’t been […]
Accusation Studies
Anyone can make an accusation. Me, too. I accuse American higher education of fostering an epidemic of unprovable and often unfounded accusations; accusations aimed not […]
Thinking Small in the Age of Greatness
The academic Left thinks big when it comes to #TheResistance. It thinks big in mounting symbolic protests such as the 2018 March for Science, the […]
Does Trump Threaten Science? Part 3
On December 7, the American Association of University Professors issued a thirteen-page statement, “National Security, the Assault on Science, and Academic Freedom,” that attacked President […]