Some elite colleges that previously had abandoned admissions requirements to submit standardized test scores are now re-instituting such requirements. This may seem like a return to old-fashioned merit-based admissions. But apparently there’s a different explanation, at least at Yale and … Continue reading →
As I read this interview with economist and former Harvard president Larry Summers, I was in basic agreement with the points he made in the first half or so. For example: So I think what happens in universities is immensely … Continue reading →
Laurence Tribe is a law professor at Harvard specializing in the US Constitution. But leftism and partisan Trump-hatred so blinds Tribe that he sounds incredibly stupid here. Maybe he really is incredibly stupid, but I doubt it – at least, … Continue reading →
Yesterday I wrote about a blood libel that appeared in the Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles is southern California, although the paper has a broader reach than that. Today we have northern California: Berkeley, to be exact. First, grade schools … Continue reading →
Words such as “sadism” to describe what Hamas – and some Gazan civilians – did on October 7 are not strong enough. No words are strong enough. If you want to read a new report on the subject, which will … Continue reading →
Natan Sharansky is interviewed in the following video, in which he speaks on growing up in the Soviet Union and the mental gymnastics it required, becoming a “refusenik,” spending nine years in the Gulag, living in Israel after his release, … Continue reading →
Claudine Gay has gotten the most press recently, but there are more allegations of plagiarism at Harvard in the DEI area: Harvard University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, appears to have plagiarized extensively in her academic work, … Continue reading →
Ideological conformity is required in academia: We then take the reader on an imaginary tour of academia from the point of view of an independent-minded highschooler and demonstrate how many conformity pressures he or she will face on their way … Continue reading →
Blahbitty blah blah blah: Since I first arrived here as an undergraduate in 1973, I cannot recall a period of comparable tension on our campus and across our community. That tension has been exacerbated by concerns about how we address … Continue reading →
Commenter “Mike K” writes: The sad and infuriating thing about what was done to Roland Fryer is that he was a genuine academic star. No need for that thumb on the scale or affirmative action. The book “The Bell Curve” … Continue reading →
Another aspect of Claudine Gay’s illustrious career as a Harvard administrator: …[I]n the face of numerous mounting scandals, many are defending Gay by claiming that the attacks against her are racial in nature. They are not. They are all well … Continue reading →
And of course it’s not just Harvard. Would that it were. But the problem is pervasive in academia and beyond. This Legal Insurrection piece spotlights an excellent editorial by Rabbi David Wolpe in the Harvard Crimson. Wolpe, who is a … Continue reading →