Surveying American institutions, one searches in earnest for even a few organizations or systems that progressives have been unable to control. News story after news story confirms that indeed that … Continue reading ““Health Equity” Will Destroy North Carolina’s Medical Schools”
An empirical study of what is being taught and learned in university sociology courses around the country would be challenging to carry out. But American sociology provides a convenient site … Continue reading “Teaching Sociology Is an Ideological Nightmare”
Only about 900,000 persons claim permanent residence in South Dakota, yet its 28 colleges and universities rank it third best in the nation for universities per capita, and its 50,000+ … Continue reading “South Dakota’s Higher-Education Alternative”
As a history professor with over 30 years of teaching experience at the community-college level, I have spent most of my career secure in the idea that the values I … Continue reading “A Dissident Professor’s “DEI” Story”
I would like to say something you don’t often hear from UNC-System faculty these days: I agree with the Board of Governors. At its February 28 meeting, the Board’s Committee … Continue reading “Teaching American Democracy in the UNC System”
As a battleground state in our national political contests, Arizona is also ground zero in the fight over the future of higher education in America. Higher-ed-reform advocates have notched several … Continue reading “The Next Front in the Fight to Dismantle DEI on Campus”
Fueled by political ambition and a distaste for the new left-wing ideological agendas that have taken root on many college campuses, activists and politicians have sought to alter the landscape … Continue reading “Let Florida Try”
The unspeakable brutality and depravity of the October 7 Hamas assault on Israel led soon afterward to aggressive protests on many of our college campuses. The protests (and declarations, blog … Continue reading “Hatred of Western Civilization Stokes the Campus Antisemitism Crisis”
When we think of “Newspeak,” the fictional language invented by George Orwell for his dystopian novel 1984, we typically think of powerful authoritarian governments manipulating language for the advancement of … Continue reading ““White Logic” and “Jew Physics””
Ancient and medieval astronomers could not explain the apparent movements of the heavenly bodies while shackled to a Ptolemaic paradigm of an Earth-centered universe. Thus they spun out ad hoc … Continue reading “Campus “Anti-Racism” Is a Degenerating Research Program”