The diversity monster is loose
DEI will only die when we realize no good can come from racial resentment
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.
Sunday
Monday
Stop reading
Literacy is overrated
Saturday
Finding the religious right in remote Wisconsin
Odd though they can be, such communities are as old as America itself
Monday
How ‘questioning authority’ gave us wokeness
Rebelling against everything has led not to less authority but bad authority — like Dr. Fauci and 1619
Thursday
When Harvard canceled a black professor
It’s what we’ve come to expect from higher education
Saturday
The reporter who covered up the Ukrainian famine
Now is the time to de-Pulitzer Walter Duranty, who ran cover for the Soviets
Tuesday
The strange ideology that could be driving Putin
Eurasianism, as it’s called, sees a common historical destiny for all the non-Russian peoples of Russia
Thursday
Emma Camp almost gets it
The root problem is the ideology on which the censorious campus regime is founded
Sunday
The latest smear campaign against Clarence Thomas
With a major racial preferences case before the Court, the left wants him out
Wednesday
Is Europe a continent? Does it matter?
The ‘continent’ is a lot more than what Nikole Hannah-Jones considers a racist ‘dog whistle’
Saturday
Our present bewilderment
Greta Thunberg-style eco-apocalypse ranting is now common sense on the left
Wednesday
The art of the Covid protest song
They are angry at vaccines mandates, vaccine passports, but mostly at government highhandedness
Friday
Black History Month and the usable past
Aggregate history washes away the details that represent an actual life lived
Monday
J.P. Morgan and our gilded age
The house of Morgan — the literal house of Morgan — is tying itself into knots to ‘prioritize’ all things black
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
Monday
How China meddles in American academia
Rather than facing up to the threat China poses on American college campuses, the White House seems to want us to get along happily with our friends across the Taiwan Strait
Tuesday
The false mystery of motives
The evil that we saw at a Texas synagogue is not senseless. It is self-gratifying
Tuesday
E.O. Wilson and the climate cult
My run-in with the late sociobiologist
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
Sunday
The meaning of trees aflame
To set fire to a public Christmas tree is to express destructive glee against the sentiments of the season
