Gender equality is closer than we think
The world of difference is disappearing
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May 28, 2019
Will Generation Z elect a Boomer president in 2020?
If young voters really want to change the world, they must turn up
May 24, 2019
False history from Naomi Wolf and Marc Lamont Hill
The truth will out — even on Twitter
May 14, 2019
At Harvard, you’re guilty until proven innocent
The end of academic freedom?
May 3, 2019
Why Elizabeth Warren’s college debt plan sucks
Her proposal rewards big borrowers and punishes workers who scrimped
April 23, 2019
The Middlebury mess
Students are open to challenging ideas. Their administrators are not
April 22, 2019
The reimagining of the American university
A college in Oklahoma has turned academia into an Atwoodian nightmare
April 19, 2019
Camille Paglia vs the trans-Taliban
The feminist thinker has a fight on her hands
April 16, 2019
The moral folly of slavery reparations
Honor, not victimhood
April 12, 2019
Turning Point USA plug anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on Twitter
Did these kids Google ‘Kalergi plan’ before telling people to ‘GOOGLE “Kalergi plan”?
April 10, 2019
Roger Scruton on Soros and Hungary
It is clear from his consistent pattern of statements that Scruton is not anti-Semitic towards George Soros
March 28, 2019
What’s wrong with ‘cultural Marxism’?
It’s all about the Walter Benjamins, baby…
March 18, 2019
Stop wasting your money on college
The valedictory address high school seniors need to hear
March 15, 2019
When a student mob came for my job, my college did not support me
Students at my college demanded a review of my tenure because of an article I wrote. My fellow faculty members failed to back me up
March 13, 2019
Operation Varsity Blues and the wrong sort of college corruption
Free Felicity Huffman, because nothing else in education is
March 6, 2019
The craziest campus news: universities are still good
For all the free speech fights, higher education continues to make people more trusting and civil
February 27, 2019
Michael Cohen’s amazingly pointless letters to Trump’s universities
Universities can’t share academic records without the permission of the student
February 23, 2019
The search for viewpoint diversity in higher education
America’s colleges are deeply embedded in and influenced by the local communities where they are geographically situated
February 19, 2019
The irony of the war on Yale fraternities
Do the women bringing the lawsuit realize that, by virtue of being Ivy League students, they too are privileged?
February 8, 2019
The weedman cometh
I don’t want a drug shop in our family neighborhood
February 5, 2019
What does anyone learn from the banning of Ben Shapiro?
Institutions of higher learning should focus on educating people, not on bringing them together
January 28, 2019
Why are academics defending pedophilia?
A professor at one of the US’s top universities identifies ‘benefits’ for children in having sex with adults
January 23, 2019
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
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
