It is the utter lack of critical thinking displayed by articles such as this one by Julia Horowitz, assistant managing editor of the UVA student newspaper.
Continue reading →The WaPo has some words on the UVA rape story’s unraveling and the lessons we should take from it: As the doubts and discrepancies are sorted out, here are some truths that must not get lost: Sexual assault, often associated … Continue reading →
There have been quite a few new developments on the UVA rape story I wrote about yesterday, and they all point to the strong likelihood that the sordid and shocking tale told by “Jackie” was, to put it bluntly, a … Continue reading →
[UPDATE 12/5 at 4 PM: The UVA rape story appears to have unraveled. See this.] Rolling Stone has gotten a lot of publicity recently with a sensational article about a rape in 2012 at the University of Virginia, written by … Continue reading →
One would think that Robert Oscar Lopez, “Latino child of lesbians” who is also bisexual himself, might be in with the PC crowd. But questioning some of the tenets of their narrative trumps even those identifying credentials. Mr. Lopez is … Continue reading →
…it’s been zombified. I’ve written before about the death of the university from the virus of pressure of special interest groups favored by the left. The phenomenon seems to have really caught on during the late 60s, when university administrations … Continue reading →
Historians for Hamas. No, they don’t call themselves that. But that’s pretty much who they are. No doubt the crocodile will eat them last. Many of them are members of the hard left. Even I recognized that fact from some … Continue reading →
Reading David Horowitz’s 1989 book Destructive Generation—and particularly the chapter entitled “Doing It,” about the Weathermen who morphed into the Weather Underground (notably Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, as well as several fellow travelers)—I am struck by the irony of … Continue reading →
All this news about commencement speakers being scared away or disinvited or staying the course despite adversity or giving students a tongue-lashing makes me want to return to a commencement address from an earlier time. That time was 1956, nearly … Continue reading →
They’re dropping like flies. First, Hirsi Ali’s invitation to receive an honorary degree was withdrawn. Now, Jill Abramson has voluntarily pulled out: The Justice student newspaper reports that Abramson told the university’s president she won’t be present Sunday to get … Continue reading →
Another would-be commencement speaker bows out in response to pressure from students who deem him insufficiently pure for their tender sensibilities. Birgeneau refused to say sufficient mea culpas, the price he would have had to pay for the privilege of … Continue reading →
From Daniel Henninger today in the WSJ: All of a sudden, the left has hit ramming speed across a broad swath of American life””in the universities, in politics and in government. People fingered as out of line with the far … Continue reading →