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
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.
Friday
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
Friday
San Francisco reparations and the Golden Age of Revision
For just $5 million per person, we can rid ourselves of the iron burden of truth
Monday
The university fighting back against the diversocrats
A professor was fired after a single student complained. Then came the backlash
Thursday
When the masks come off in blue states
New York City might be trapped in a state of fear but Vermont is doing just fine
Monday
The strange effort to ‘decolonize’ global health
Some are unctuously eager to respect non-Western premises about medicine
Friday
The Democrats put on a January 6 pageant
Charlie Chaplin would have been proud
Monday
A flag under foot
This Memorial Day let’s remember what that flag stood for — and what it could stand for again
