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?
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] In the 1940s, a wave of automation threatened an […]
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 […]
Does Trump Threaten Science? Part 2
On December 7—a date presumably chosen because it is Pearl Harbor Day and thus resonates with general alarm—the American Association of University Professors issued a […]
Does Trump Threaten Science? Part 1
The American Association of University Professors has issued a short thunderclap of a report accusing President Trump of undermining the natural sciences. By itself, this […]
We Need a Radio Free America on Campus
Deep within the United States Code a dynamite charge lies buried. Once ignited, it could blow the current landscape of higher education to smithereens, replacing […]