Behind the anger of the young American Hamas apologists
Their heads are filled with falsehood
Peter Wood
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.
Wednesday
Friday
The shrinking lifespan of the college president
If we are serious about improving higher education, we will have to give some thought to how to find better college presidents
Tuesday
The Sycamore Gap tragedy is one of a long list of tree killings
The culprits never seem possessed by tree-hatred, if there is such a thing. Rather, they seem to act on misanthropy
Tuesday
The slow death of ‘balanced literacy’
After dismal and ever-declining scores on reading tests, many schools are switching back to the basics of teaching kids to read
Saturday
The incredible meltdown of the Center for Antiracist Research
From our UK edition
Professor Ibram X. Kendi has run into a spot of trouble. His fantastically funded Center for Antiracist Research – more than $43 million (£35 million) in the first two years alone – at Boston University is in financial meltdown. What happen to the $10 million (£8 million) from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey? Where are the donations from
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
Disinfo-nation: the new censorship is here to stay
The list of topics on which the government and mass media feel called to protect us from ‘disinformation’ is very long
Tuesday
The gentlemanly legacy of the Shine-O-Mat
There is something about the whir of the machine’s two great buffing wheels
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
Monday
Shakespeare in black and white
Race is not where we find it — it is where we put it
Friday
Why legacy students aren’t a civil rights issue
The upwelling of complaint is entirely a raspatory exercise
Wednesday
A better way to go to college: at sea
Just as important as what they study and do would be what they would be kept away from
Friday
Why the Supreme Court’s Harvard decision matters
It is the culmination of decades of advocacy
Sunday
In praise of encyclopedias
Two new books take on the amorphous subject of knowledge
Monday
The China influence puzzle
The CCP is trying to subvert our schools. Confucius Institutes are just the beginning
Monday
Stanford students vote to Make College Fun Again
Fun, indeed, strikes back
Thursday
This is how small colleges die
Higher education subsists on government largesse. That entails substantial risk
Sunday
How real is America’s discontent?
We have adapted our system of education to emphasize fear and fragility
Tuesday
New Yorkers embrace street justice
We don’t rely on cops to stop muggings and thefts. We rely on ourselves
