Colleges and universities keep telling us that they teach “critical thinking” skills, but in reality they are deeply complicit in the destruction of the ability to think at all. They’re … Continue reading “How and Why Are American Minds Being Canceled?”
In January 2023, UNC-Chapel Hill launched its “DEI Strategic Plan” for the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). The DEI Strategic Plan is an offshoot of Chief Diversity Officer Leah … Continue reading “Chapel Hill’s Latest DEI Push”
“I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” While Voltaire apparently did not say exactly that (the phrase seems … Continue reading “Campus Cancel Culture–Pernicious and Widespread”
Over the past decade, American moral culture has changed. The evidence of those changes has been especially apparent on college campuses, where new concepts such as microaggressions, safe spaces, trigger … Continue reading “1776 Unites: An Alternative to Campus Victimhood Culture”
Fifteen years ago, American higher education was beset with serious problems, especially rising costs, politicization of the curriculum, the mania over diversity, and falling academic standards. At that time, however, … Continue reading “Free Speech and Liberal Education–Two Endangered Pillars of Society”
The college campus is increasingly a focal point for shaping social norms, largely a result of rising college attendance; only five percent of the generation that came of age in … Continue reading “The Dictatorship of the Offended”