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
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Freddy Gray speaks to Peter Wood who is the President of the National Association of Scholars about Trump’s decision to block Harvard funding after the university denied the President’s DEI demands.
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
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I have on the desk two yo-yos. One is from the brand Duncan – the ‘Imperial’ model. The other is from the brand Yomega – the ‘Fireball’. Which is better? The Imperial is the top-of-the-line Duncan model, a classic, that gave warrant to company’s 1960s slogan: ‘If it isn’t a Duncan, it isn’t a yo-yo’. The Imperial is the
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The smug world of public radio in the United States received a smart slap in the face last week. It was delivered by Uri Berliner, a long-time NPR reporter, who went public with his inside story of how NPR cooks the news. NPR responded by suspending him and then securing his resignation. As this unfolded,
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
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In the end, Barack Obama, Penny Pritzker, 700-some members of the faculty, the mighty voice of the Harvard Crimson and the entire nomenclature of the Diversity, Equality and Inclusion movement could not save her from herself. Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard University after a month of relentless criticism. In principle, her feckless performance on
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
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Claudine Gay is the self-declared ‘transformational’ president of Harvard university. She campaigned for the job by promising to retire the old Harvard of privilege and patrimony and to bring into being a new Harvard founded on principles of anti-racism and social justice. How is she doing? At the moment, she is a bit distracted by allegations
