Him too: is Alec Klein a predator — or a victim?
An unwanted shoulder rub is a bit sleazy but it hardly places a man beyond redemption
Spectator Life
An intelligent mix of culture, style, travel, food and property, as well as where to go and what to see.
May 4, 2020
Forget Zoom college: it’s time for America’s youth to embrace entrepreneurship
No one should pay $40,000 a year for an online college degree
March 20, 2020
My ill-fated foray into homeschooling
Those who cannot teach, reach (for a pistol)
March 9, 2020
Want to save public schools? Embrace school choice
The point of education programs isn’t to empower schools — it’s to empower students
February 21, 2020
Bloomberg’s education policies deserve much more scrutiny
He got grilled about everything else on Wednesday — why not this?
February 6, 2020
Espinoza v. Montana is about families, not religion
Is it appropriate for federal funds to be used to enroll students at religious schools?
February 3, 2020
We’re all high-schoolers now
In the age of social media, we have the largest mobs in the history of mankind
January 31, 2020
Academics are trying to get my paper retracted — and some of them haven’t even read it
Philosophy is ultimately about questioning orthodoxies and challenging taboos
January 24, 2020
So you’ve been canceled. Here’s how to fight back
Let’s make 2020 the year cancel culture gets canceled
A new mob at Sarah Lawrence College
Hope for Gen Z?
January 11, 2020
2019 was not a good year for freedom of speech
Is everything rosy in the groves of academe?
December 2, 2019
The real reason for college food fights
Scarcely a month passes without a food-related scandal causing uproar on campus
November 26, 2019
How to converse with know-it-alls
Exposing the Unread Library Effect
November 18, 2019
Finally, the transracial community are gaining recognition
All thanks to a British higher education union
November 12, 2019
A journalism lesson from Northwestern
While the student journalists deserve criticism, they might benefit from some sympathy as well
November 10, 2019
Ben Shapiro and the extreme nonsense of the horseshoe theory
It brings no fortune and a great deal of confusion
October 30, 2019
Why are young people so left-wing?
Left-wing professors think it’s their responsibility to open their students’ eyes to injustice
October 23, 2019
Where are world leaders educated?
The US has just overtaken Britain in the number of world leaders educated at the country’s universities
October 18, 2019
Colleges should be ‘islands of excellence’
Scarcely a month passes without some distinguished professor being targeted for defenestration
September 23, 2019
Dear journalism students…
Here’s how to make it in the media
September 19, 2019
Andrew Yang, Asian stereotypes and the discomforts of reality
We are highly averse to even remotely acknowledging differences in group outcomes, even when it comes to positive ones
September 18, 2019
Are college campuses eroding free speech?
University officials and libertarian columnists clash in DC debate
September 17, 2019
Woke history is making big inroads in America’s high schools
The cleansing power of ethnic studies
August 22, 2019
When will American schools catch up with the technological revolution?
Children in kindergarten or middle school today are likely to be educated for a world that will largely have disappeared by the time they graduate
July 29, 2019
In defense of Amy Wax
Too many foolish people have too much invested in believing the worst about the Penn Law professor
July 4, 2019
Has China infiltrated America’s universities?
In the academy, Beijing is the elephant in the room
June 26, 2019
Sure, cancel student debt. Then cancel college
Higher education has been massively devalued over the past decade
June 24, 2019
Viewpoint diversity includes conservative thought
The seminar, not the lecture, is the way
June 17, 2019
Harvard is more racist than Kyle Kashuv
The Ivies won’t apologize for discriminating against Asian Americans
