After I had the idea for the title of this post, I wondered if it had been said before. It has – by Jonah Goldberg back in late 2007 in his book Liberal Fascism. Whatever you think of Goldberg’s stances … Continue reading →
…and it will bleed into the non-academic world soon enough, and the Overton window will move to the point where the left will think it’s just a basic truth. And then half the country – the Democrat half – will … Continue reading →
The National Association of Scholars is, in its own words: …a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to reform higher education. We uphold the standards of a liberal arts education that fosters intellectual freedom, searches for the truth, and promotes virtuous … Continue reading →
I suppose at this point nothing that emanates from the race-baiting Trump-hating crew (some of whom are lawyers and law professors) should shock me. But Terry Smith’s efforts seem particularly pernicious. The following descriptive passage was written by Noah Berlatsky … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: AesopFan] This 2003 article by Roger Scruton is extremely well worth reading. One depressing thing about it, though – in addition to the fact that its author has recently died – is that the complete leftist domination it … Continue reading →
Some people have advanced a theory to explain Iran’s failure to do damage to US personnel in Iraq in this latest attack: the Iranians missed on purpose. Well, maybe. But others strongly disagree: The top US general made clear Wednesday … Continue reading →
Case in point: University of New Hampshire physics professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein took to Twitter on New Year’s Eve to explain why anti-Semitism is exclusively a “white” problem, and why it is inappropriate to discuss anti-Semitic acts committed by black people. … Continue reading →
Peter Boghossian writes: The correspondence theory of truth basically states that objective truth exists and we can know something about it through evidence and reason… In Culture War 2.0 the correspondence theory of truth—with its commitment to the idea that … Continue reading →
All of a sudden I see the phrase nearly everywhere: “under-resourced schools.” I get a number of magazines from the varied colleges I attended, and I skim them over now and then and even sometimes read an article or two … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] In that same interview I wrote about in Part I, someone named Richard Wolff had a few things to say as well. Wolff’s academic credentials are impressive, if you’re impressed by that sort … Continue reading →
Utopia for Realists. If that book title sounds like an oxymoron, it certainly doesn’t to its author Rutger Bregman: Imagining utopia, writes Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, “isn’t an attempt to predict the future. It’s an attempt to unlock the future. … Continue reading →
It’s a funny thing. When I went to college many moons ago, we had boys’ dorms and girls’ dorms. Not only that, we called ourselves “boys” and “girls.” I had just turned seventeen when I went away to school, and … Continue reading →