Editor’s Note: Maybe some of Bernie Sanders youngest supporters should know how close to the one percent he gets. Responding to one of Anderson Cooper’s softball questions, socialist Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told the CNN Town…
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Feds Seek Diversity in Middle East Studies Programs
The Department of Education has started requiring universities that receive federal funding for Middle East Studies centers to report on how their programs are including diverse perspectives and a wide range of views. This is…
University of Maryland President Quotes Wrong U.S. Motto in School E-mail
In an email this week to students, University of Maryland President Wallace Loh outlining the reasons behind his request to the Board of Regents to rename the school’s football stadium, due to the racist past…
Women’s Studies and the Moral Vacuity of an Academic Boycott Against Israel
Seeming to give proof to Orwell’s observation that some ideas are so stupid they could only have been thought of by intellectuals, yet another academic association—this time the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)—has followed the…
Wise Men Still Seek Repeal
When Americans went around the table last Thursday to say what they were grateful for, ObamaCare probably wasn’t one of them. Despite the millions spent in PR, the president’s disaster of a health care law…
Wilson, Du Bois, and Who is Worth Honoring
Guest blogger Jonathan Marks teaches political philosophy at Ursinus College. Corey Robin, a professor of political science at Brooklyn College, concludes a recent piece in Salon by imagining how Princeton might distance itself from its former…
Tim Wolfe Resigns from the University of Missouri
John K. Wilson on the American Association of University Professors blog offered his own interesting take on the UMizzou controversy: Tim Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri, resigned this morning under intense pressure. I’m…
Chicago Showers Locker Room Policy with Criticism
In one Chicago school, girls are getting a lesson in anatomy their parents never bargained for. In the latest chapter of madness at the Department of Education, the federal government is ordering Township High School…
Division at Home Can Subtract from Math at School
Money can buy a lot of things, but a good education may not be one of them. Yesterday, the National Assessment of Educational Progress released its two-year report, and it’s not exactly a glowing one….
The Wesleyan Controversy and a Double Standard for Campus Free Speech
In what is yet more evidence that universities have become, at least where campus free speech is concerned, “islands of repression in a sea of freedom,” as Chester E. Finn Jr., a former Assistant Secretary…