To De-Politicize Art Schools, Students Need to Fight Back
It has never been harder to teach artistic individualism in America. A religious devotion to the causes of social justice dominates the ideas of professors in the academy, and David…
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The Ministry of Love: Ongoing Gender Partisanship in the Department of Education
Orwell’s famous dystopia 1984 is often cited as a parable about the banality of administrative evil. The ever-vigilant bureaucrats of Oceania position themselves not only on the Left side of…
Campus Feminism: The Real War on Women
At a time when the majority of American college students are female—currently 57 percent of all students—higher education’s conversation surrounding women’s rights is largely dominated by modern feminist ideology. Roughly…
Men Wanted: The Feminized Campus versus Decent Masculinity
In the wake of Harvey Weinstein, #MeToo, increased public attention to sexual harassment, and the growing debate about due process rights of the accused, how are young men to navigate…
Psychology Professors Argue Against Groupthink in Their Field
Does social science research and understanding suffer because most of the individuals working in the field are on the left side of the political spectrum? A new book gives us…
Paranoia and Paternalism Fuel the Fight Against “Rape Culture”
For several years, colleges have been battling an alleged campus “rape culture.” Before taking their first class, almost half a million students are taught that 1 in 5 women will…
How the Academy Is Failing Feminism
Christina Hoff Sommers, also known as YouTube’s “Factual Feminist,” spoke last Wednesday at UNC Chapel Hill. Her talk, titled “The Failures of Feminism,” was sponsored by the UNC College Republicans.…
Bullying or Caving In?
A report claims that the philosophy department at the University of Colorado-Boulder harasses its female faculty.
The Feminist Retreat
It is hard to find a legitimate justification for women’s studies.
Feminist teach-in links “fundamentalism” in the Middle East to (natch) the U.S.
“Women Fight Fundamentalisms: Before and After September 11th” was the topic of a two-day “teach-in” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Discussion was not, however, limited to the fight against that “fundamentalist” version of Islam. As the title clearly indicates, the topic was women fighting “fundamentalisms” (plural). And one speaker discussed similarities between President George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden.