We sometimes think – or used to think – of professors and/or philosophers and/or intellectuals as people living in ivory towers, and that most of their battles are over arcane matters that matter not all that much to the rest … Continue reading →
Get up to speed on the new meaning of such terms that sound good but have been redefined to mean something quite different: We’re being lied to, and it’s been costing us a fortune, both economically and socially. For most … Continue reading →
Unsurprising, really, considering the current political climate: Jennifer Mosher, a biology professor at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, has been placed on administrative leave after appearing to suggest that she hopes Trump supporters contract coronavirus and “die before the … Continue reading →
Well, well, well. Yesterday Trump made quite an announcement: On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that he would sign an executive order to launch a “1776 Commission” for American patriotism in education, countering the Marxist critical race theory of The … Continue reading →
Thinking more about the video I posted yesterday, I noticed this comment by “John Tyler”: No point in really in trying to understand what motivates the adherents of wokeness, Nazism, communism, ANTIFA’ism, BLM’ism, etc. , because any sentient carbon based … Continue reading →
…if this is any indication. You might call them Pravda volunteers: The first sign of cancel culture bubbling up at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication involved Sonya Duhé, whom the university named dean this … Continue reading →
From William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection: …Trump’s move [to end Critical Race training in federal agencies] is viewed as a mortal threat by the CRT movement. One of the leading academics on CRT, UCLA and Columbia law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, … Continue reading →
This is one of the strangest stories I’ve ever read. I had never heard of Jessica Krug before; I doubt many people have. She seems to be somewhat typical of the sort of leftist professor focusing on racial studies so … Continue reading →
Here. Would would academia do without jargon?
Continue reading →Professor William Jacobson reports from the frontlines at Cornell: The new activism surrounding race is completely at odds with the traditional goals of the civil rights movement — that all people be treated with dignity and afforded the protections of … Continue reading →
The Red Guard rides again: Nearly 2,000 people called for the termination of a New York City professor after she reportedly fell asleep during an anti-racist meeting held on Zoom. Patricia Simon, a theater arts associate professor at Marymount Manhattan … Continue reading →
[NOTE: The following is a revised and updated version of a post I wrote over seven years ago, based on Allan Bloom’s book published in 1987.] I’ve written before about Allan Bloom’s masterful The Closing of the American Mind, published … Continue reading →