When Harvard canceled a black professor
It’s what we’ve come to expect from higher education
Academia
Thursday
Sunday
Biden’s science advisor falls to the woke
The Mean Girls of academia accused him of ‘erasure,’ but do their claims hold up?
Sunday
Peter Boghossian’s fight for freedom
The professor is blisteringly blunt about the woke ‘capture’ of institutions
Saturday
Gang Chen, the China Initiative and open-borders academia
Should we take the DoJ’s decision to drop charges at face value? I’m not so sure
Tuesday
Who really deserves to have their honorary degree revoked?
Whom we honor and whom we cast out are decisions that may have little to do with who people really are
Sunday
Jordan Peterson and the crisis of totalitarian academia
Just as cascades of disbelief collapsed communist regimes, could our universities be next?
Thursday
Anthropology has turned its back on its legacy
At its best, the discipline taught us that our follies are as universal as our aspirations
Monday
Down with Strunk and White
Followers of the style guide don’t understand what a versatile, vigorous sentence can do
Tuesday
The new campus harassment
It’s considered reasonable to publicly hound a female academic — if she’s branded a ‘TERF’
Sunday
Professing virtues
Not since the late 19th century in Germany have the Herr Professor Doktors been held in such high esteem
Thursday
What’s wrong with ‘cultural Marxism’?
It’s all about the Walter Benjamins, baby…
Wednesday
Michael Cohen’s amazingly pointless letters to Trump’s universities
Universities can’t share academic records without the permission of the student
Monday
Why are academics defending pedophilia?
A professor at one of the US’s top universities identifies ‘benefits’ for children in having sex with adults
Thursday
‘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?
