The students bullied into being woke
Eighty-eight percent of students admitted they ‘have pretended to hold more progressive views… to succeed socially or academically’
Higher education
Saturday
Tuesday
How Harvard lost America
The college’s main line of defense is old-fashioned snobbery
Thursday
Anna Peterson’s New York Times article has restored my faith
The fascists at the University of Florida are apparently not very good at their Gestapo-like job
Thursday
The unforgiving history of student loans
They didn’t always dominate the college terrain like a Tyrannosaurus rex
Tuesday
The Trump administration is giving us excellence, not equity
We may not be in a golden age, but we can see one on the horizon
Friday
Another spring, another round of anti-Semitism on campus
What’s different is that the Trump administration is finally taking a strong stand
Wednesday
What the Singer Sewing Machine teaches us about student loan repayment
The ‘dollar down, dollar a week’ slogan launched the era of consumer credit
Monday
Trump takes a hammer to the universities
And there are plenty more tools he can use
Monday
How to deal with the student mob
The line between free speech and violence is clear
Tuesday
The trouble with the elite American campus
The inexperience at the top is on full display
Monday
On the ground at the People’s University for Palestine (formerly Columbia)
Many of the students are masked
Monday
Biden’s absurd student loan ‘solution’
Not that anyone can blame him — it’s a political win-win for the White House
Tuesday
The fight for civilization in higher education
The ‘School of General Education Act’ insists that all students in a state’s public university system take a prescribed sequence of courses that will take them through most of Western history
Tuesday
The populism of Machiavelli and Jefferson
In America today, our virtues and successes are our undoing, much more than our vices or failures
Sunday
Why plagiarism matters
To think critically is to think with the utmost serious attention about the sources which warrant your attention
Wednesday
A history of intellect
The Greeks had a concept of the ‘intellect’ that is the diametric opposite of our own
Wednesday
Being denied a job for supporting Hamas isn’t ‘cancel culture’
The accusations of conservative hypocrisy are wide of the mark
Monday
The virtue-signaling behind the renaming of the Middlebury College chapel
Even small schools must find demons to exorcize — and the busybodies at Middlebury were ready
Friday
In defense of cranky professors
On campus, complaints about ‘lack of collegiality’ are a way to silence dissent
Thursday
Stanford’s Marc Tessier-Lavigne and the messiness of modern science
Following a rigorous investigation, the Stanford president has resigned
