By Frank Bruni: …there is and always has been disagreement about the very mission of higher education. Should it grapple with the world as it is or point the way to the world as it should be? The article goes … Continue reading →
Another one bites the dust: An Air Force Academy cadet candidate once thought the victim of racial slurs at the preparatory school on campus was actually the vandal who scrawled the threatening messages across the note boards outside his room … Continue reading →
Many people (me included) wondered how it was that the openly-Communist Spenser Rapone was allowed to graduate from West Point. It’s not as though Rapone was underground with his point of view as a proud Communist. And West Point isn’t … Continue reading →
Our US Red Guard have certainly been busy.
Continue reading →In my earlier post about Harvey Weinstein, I wrote: I must admit this story fills me with a feeling of exhaustion. I guess I always assumed that Hollywood was rife with the kind of behavior of which Weinstein is accused, … Continue reading →
This is an excellent development. I have long been alarmed at the way the accused have been treated by universities under the Title IX campus sexual harassment and/or rape guidelines pushed by the Obama administration, and I’m glad that one … Continue reading →
It’s a growing problem: When I started teaching at Long Beach City College in fall of 2000, fully one-third of students enrolled came from a traditional white working-class background. I thought that was minuscule at the time, but now the … Continue reading →
You wouldn’t think it would be controversial to praise Western Civilization. Even among liberals. After all, liberalism itself, and the principles of liberty, protection of the underdog, celebration of diversity, the scientific method, and a host of other things that … Continue reading →
It’s long, but it’s good. Please try to ignore the things you disagree with (the guy is a “progressive,” after all) and listen closely to his descriptions of what happened at Evergreen and why. I’m not an auditory learner and … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: Fuzzy Slippers at Legal Insurrection.] The NAS (National Association of Scholars) reports on the slant of the books on the typical college reading list given to incoming freshmen to prepare them for the rigors of college study: Hundreds … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I thought this post from 2013 could bear repeating, with some edits and additions to bring it up to date.] I’ve written before about Allan Bloom’s masterful The Closing of the American Mind, published in 1987, here and here. … Continue reading →
You probably saw the video about the ruckus at Evergreen. You read the articles and the posts, including mine. You may have watched the interview between Tucker Carlson and Bret Weinstein, the professor whose letter protesting the idea that whites … Continue reading →