I cared even less about this year’s Superbowl than I usually do – and since I usually don’t care, that means I didn’t bother to turn on the TV. But I know many people do care, so here’s a thread … Continue reading →
Well, it’s about time this book was written. It’s called Debunking Howard Zinn: Not only is Grabar’s book a thoroughly researched and exquisitely compiled refutation of Zinn’s book, but she covers the historical analysis in an approachable, flowing style that … Continue reading →
By now you’re probably read about the the dismissal of Ronald Sullivan and his wife from their posts at Harvard College’s Winthrop House: The story begins last January when the African American Law School Professor Ronald Sullivan joined Harvey Weinstein’s … Continue reading →
Maybe it doesn’t even matter which it is, because the impulse is the same whether it’s supposedly religious or supposedly secular/leftist: to destroy history and its representations and replace them with the new orthodoxy. The deeper motive is to indoctrinate … Continue reading →
[NOTE: There’s been a lot of arrogance and ignorance about history lately, particularly from the “woke” crowd. Which makes me think that a repeat of this old post might be in order right about now.] I’ve just spent a fruitless … Continue reading →
1969 was a very big and tumultuous year, and I was paying attention to a lot of things. But I didn’t catch everything, and I don’t remember this story. In the annals of the follies of higher education in this … Continue reading →
In Europe there’s a trend to criticize or even in some cases do away with the field of gender studies. Naturally, this makes the gender studies professors very very nervous: The attacks take many different forms, including blacklists and harassment … Continue reading →
Recently David Horowitz gave a talk at Dartmouth. He has written the college’s president this note about his experience: Leading the pack of Dartmouth character assassins who mobilized to combat my presence was Professor Annelise Oreleck, an out-of-control Gender Studies … Continue reading →
…no matter how illogical or implausible their stories. Earlier today, I wrote about how a disgusting and violent, racist and sexist tweet of Professor Christine Fair got no flak from her employer, Georgetown University. Meanwhile, Dean Will Rainford received some … Continue reading →
This new book by Jonathan Haidt seems very promising. It’s entitled The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. Now, I’m not sure the people coddling the American mind … Continue reading →
One turning point in the history of the university in the United States occurred about fifty years ago at Cornell (as later described by Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind). And over the years the situation at … Continue reading →
A little over a month ago, in the heat of the war against statues, New York’s Mayor de Blasio expressed the thought that perhaps an explanatory note might be helpful in dealing with the dreadful conundrum represented by the offending … Continue reading →