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 →
I covered some of the events that took place at Evergreen College in 2017, a situation that catapulted Bret Weinstein into minor celebrity for the brave stand he took there. But although I thought I knew a lot about it, … Continue reading →
Please read this thread. I doubt it would work everywhere, but it’s well worth contemplating. And it may only be possible for people with tenure, or those who have the ability to find work elsewhere. Whether it would work in … Continue reading →
…or by what a small group of attention-getting radicals want. In the turmoil we’re now experiencing, many people are afraid. That certainly makes sense – it’s frightening. Just a few short months ago things seemed relatively “normal.” Then COVID came, … Continue reading →
Here’s a fascinating video because it seems almost archaic. It documents the leftist, racist indoctrination occurring on a single campus in 2007, and how some students and faculty, along with FIRE, helped stop it when they learned of it. Back … Continue reading →
Professor William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection reports on the latest in the campaign against him: Earlier this week, the Black Law Students Association circulated an email statement to the Cornell Law School community repeating many of the false and misleading … Continue reading →
Turley has taken up the cause: Twenty-one colleagues at Cornell signed a June 9, a letter denouncing unnamed “commentators… attached to Ivy League Institutions” as calls were made to the Dean to have Jacobson fired. The professors lashed out against … Continue reading →