UNC caved and offered Hannah-Jones tenure, but all for naught. She said thanks but no thanks; I’ve got a better offer, you see – from Howard University: “I am so incredibly honored to be joining one of the most important … Continue reading →
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the disseminator of the wretchedly mendacious and destructive “1619 Project,” is a journalist. Her 1619 Project, which re-cast the history of the US as slavery-focused and slavery-driven from earliest colonial days, was excoriated by historians but lauded by … Continue reading →
One of the problems with discussing and debating CRT is that it’s a complicated set of teachings and beliefs about which people know very little, and which probably vary at least somewhat according to who is doing the trainings. The … Continue reading →
Here’s a curious article by Lee Burdette Williams, the former dean of students at the University of Connecticut. In it, Williams describes her growing disillusionment with the way in which sexual harassment and sexual assault cases are handled by universities … Continue reading →
Commenter “mkent” writes: “White” isn’t a color or a race (they call it a race, but it’s not — not in the way they use it), it’s a class. Thus John Kerry, Al Gore, and Joe Biden are not “white” … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “AesopFan”] Harry V. Jaffa, a professor of political philosophy at Claremont College, gave a farewell address to the school in 1989 that appears here in its entirety. The speech has some commonalities with the work of Allan … Continue reading →
Howard University is instituting a new policy described in this WaPo op-ed by Cornel West and Jeremy Tate: Upon learning to read while enslaved, Frederick Douglass began his great journey of emancipation, as such journeys always begin, in the mind. … Continue reading →
This video is a compilation from a bunch of interviews with Sowell over a period of many many years. One of the most interesting things about watching it is how consistent Sowell’s message has been on the subject of colleges, … Continue reading →
[Hat tip:”AesopFan.”] Many of you are almost certainly familiar with some of the signers of this letter (for example, Shelby Steele, Glenn Loury, and John McWhorter), written on March 22 and addressed to the president of Smith College [emphasis mine]: … Continue reading →
Commenter “huxley” asks this question: I’m trying to understand how academia slid further and further to the left… I’m interested in Prof. Everybody, the academicians who watched and are still watching as their world was gradually taken over by the … Continue reading →
It you or your child or grandchild are contemplating choosing a college these days – well then, you have my sympathy/empathy. Legal Insurrection Foundation aims to help out with the announcement of a website to assist people seeking information on … Continue reading →
From a coment by “Eris Guy”: The Left/Communist/Democrats have been calling Republicans “Nazis” since Wendell Willkie. (Can you imagine claiming — or worse believing — Willkie is a Nazi.) It’s a slow, steady drip of hate until the water becomes … Continue reading →