Smirking, the infamous facial expression of the far-right
Let’s punch away their problematic adoration of Trump until nothing remains but a hollow shell of the boys they once were
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January 22, 2019
Who is the real Nathan Phillips?
He isn’t a Vietnam veteran
The progressive war on Catholic private schools
First Georgetown Prep, now Covington. Who’s next?
January 11, 2019
The sideways thinking of Silicon Valley
Our disrupting tech titans have come up with something so new that only the whole of the rest of the world has already heard of it
January 9, 2019
Ohio State lecturer bans students from saying ‘illegal immigrants’
They’re ‘unauthorized’ and you are forbidden to say otherwise
December 21, 2018
The myth of white exceptionalism
We are currently living through a period of change in our moral order
November 10, 2018
The dangerous silence in higher education
I suggested that more balance was needed in academic programming. Within hours, my office door and surrounding corridor was vandalized
October 5, 2018
Free speech and expensive schools in South Dakota
Leaked documents suggest a showdown is coming
October 4, 2018
‘Don’t quote me. They would kill me’: A professor speaks about Brett Kavanaugh and #MeToo at Harvard
Is the Harvard Law campaign against Brett Kavanaugh opening the door to an inquisition that could lay waste to its senior faculty?
September 26, 2018
Did conservatives win the culture war?
I always used to think liberals had won the culture war and conservatives had won the economic war. Now I’m not so sure
September 19, 2018
The trouble with American universities: I talk to Jamie Kirchick
Life’n’Arts podcast with the Brookings Institute fellow running for a seat on Yale’s board
September 6, 2018
The neo-Marxist takeover of our universities
We owe the fact we haven’t been bamboozled by socialist snake-oil salesmen to the innate good sense of the ordinary working man
August 23, 2018
It’s not science I don’t trust – it’s the scientists
The world of social science is overwhelmingly left-wing that almost inevitably its studies will show conservatives as blinkered and dim
July 6, 2018
Conservatives are wrong about free speech
The consensus is that we all have to watch what we say. But is it true?
June 22, 2018
The diversity trap
Quotas mean discrimination. Britain must learn from America ’ s mistake.
May 23, 2018
USC should fire its president – and every bureaucrat who could have stopped George Tyndall’s campaign of abuse
A gynaecologist at one of America ’s top universities is in the midst of a sexual assault scandal. Now its students and faculty are demanding change.
May 11, 2018
Ben Shapiro, the child prodigy gone right
A day with the host of the fastest growing conservative podcast, as he addresses his biggest ever student crowd
April 21, 2018
None of my Harvard students thinks Brexit is a good idea
When I asked my study group at Harvard’s Kennedy School whether Brexit was a good idea, not a single hand went up
March 14, 2018
How Stephen Hawking moved me to tears
Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. Here, Kate Chisholm describes listening to the Cambridge professor deliver the 2016 Reith Lectures: You don’t expect to be brought close to tears by the Reith Lectures, which are after all at the most extreme end of Radio 4’s commitment to ‘educating’ its audience. Yet when Stephen … Read more
March 2, 2018
Why are young Americans having less sex?
Parson Weems, the popular author of the early American republic who invented the apocryphal story of George Washington and the cherry tree, achieved his greatest commercial success as a pamphleteer with Hymen’s Recruiting-Sergeant; Or the New Matrimonial Tattoo for Old Bachelors (1799). In this booklet, the amiable old clergyman suggested that young people ought to … Read more
February 22, 2018
Steven Pinker: my advice to the new president of Harvard
Universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance, with non-leftist speakers drowned out by jeering mobs
