Peter Wood is the President of the National Association of Scholars. He is author of 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project and A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now.
The Kids Are All Right was a 2010 movie that attempted to reassure audiences that the teenage children of a lesbian couple are psychologically just fine. The movie is largely forgotten but the title has lingered, often as a springboard for observers who say that today’s kids are not, in fact, all right. The diagnoses
China is winning the subversion game. America appears to have folded.
The campus activist sees all of New York as his campus
The college’s main line of defense is old-fashioned snobbery
Are you suffering from Holden Thorp Hysteria?
The fascists at the University of Florida are apparently not very good at their Gestapo-like job
They didn’t always dominate the college terrain like a Tyrannosaurus rex
We may not be in a golden age, but we can see one on the horizon
The ‘dollar down, dollar a week’ slogan launched the era of consumer credit
The college, while invoking academic freedom for its resistance to Trump, is very far from upholding that principle
The most we can say is that studying at Penn did nothing to stay his progress towards contempt for civilized norms
Diversity has long been the enemy of academic excellence
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
To think critically is to think with the utmost serious attention about the sources which warrant your attention
She achieved everything by her skill at positioning herself as a principal voice of opposition to white supremacy
Their heads are filled with falsehood
If we are serious about improving higher education, we will have to give some thought to how to find better college presidents
The culprits never seem possessed by tree-hatred, if there is such a thing. Rather, they seem to act on misanthropy
After dismal and ever-declining scores on reading tests, many schools are switching back to the basics of teaching kids to read
Even small schools must find demons to exorcize — and the busybodies at Middlebury were ready
