Minouche Shafik is president of Columbia University, and like the troika of other Ivy college presidents before her who testified before the House about campus anti-Semitism, she recently was interviewed by that legislative body. Shafik had the advantage of having … Continue reading →
Commenter “AesopFan” helpfully offered this tweet from Christopher Rufo, relevant to this post from yesterday concerning whether black female professors are disproportionately involved in plagiarism: One of the ironies to this accusation is that I have explicitly asked my sources … Continue reading →
One side speaks: Chris Rufo & his allies are leading a plagiarism witch hunt and creating the false impression that Black women disproportionately plagiarize. Universities like Harvard must take back control of the narrative and conduct plagiarism reviews of all … Continue reading →
Here’s another case alleging research misconduct by a DEI academician: The chief diversity officer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, LaVar Charleston, who also teaches at the university’s school of education, has a decades-long track record of research misconduct, according to … Continue reading →
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 →