The eloquent Justice Clarence Thomas recently warned the class of 2016 in a commencement address at Hillsdale College that since “the rising tide of social justice demands run afoul of this nation’s founding principles,” this…
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Maryland’s Pro-LGBT Lavender Graduation
Lavender Graduation is all the rage in some circles these days, especially at the U. of Maryland where event sponsors at the LGBT Equity Center note that “each LGBTQA+ graduate will receive a rainbow tassel…
White Skin Privilege
The “White Skin Privilege” idea was created in 1967 by Noel Ignatiev, an acolyte of Bell and professor at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Du Bois was a Communist black leader who helped found the NAACP). Ignatiev was a member of CPUSA’s most radical wing, the Maoist/StalinistProvisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (POC). POC was the intellectual forerunner to FRSO.
Vermont College “Feels the Bern” and Closes
The wife of the socialist candidate promising free college is being blamed for closing down a college in Vermont. Burlington College is going out of business, thanks to debt incurred under the leadership of its…
Climate Change Research Ignores Common Sense
Academics are still trying to point out the dangers of global warming, even while the rest of us are still wearing winter clothes well into the month of May. “Although the world’s nations, including the…
Religious Universities Pressured to Secularize
Since the Supreme Court decision on marriage, the government has put many religious universities on the “shame list” if they seek waivers that allow them to teach traditional values of marriage and sexuality without being stripped of grants or funding.
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Sanders Misleads Students on Scandinavian Socialism
His collegiate followers are receptive to Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders exhortations that the United States should be more like Sweden and its Scandinavian neighbors. Yet and still, the self-identified socialist should be careful what…
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Target, Transgenderism, and Transformation
Target Corp. (TGT) stock has plunged approximately 12% less than a month after the organization declared that its transgender customers and employees could utilize “…the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender…
Ivy League Day-Care at Brown University
Those who view college as little more than expensive day-care just got some new evidence. “Even some of Brown’s coddling administrators had to shake their heads at the student response to a debate between leftist…
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Mother Goose Gets Makeover @ Occidental
Cultural Marxism is called “critical theory” in many universities today. At Occidental College in California, where a young Barack Obama went after being tutored in Marxism by communist Frank Marshall Davis, “Critical Theory and Social Justice” is now an interdisciplinary department, “drawing on ideas from across traditional academic disciplines.”
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Feminist Prof Offers Advice For Men
In, of course, The Washington Post.
Anti-Abortion Videos Shown In Middle School
And in California, no less.
Stonewall Jackson Elementary Alias Mockingbird Elementary
The effort to rename public schools has apparently given administrators of them a new lease on life.
Marquette University has Rules Against Proselyting, but Not Evangelizing
Marquette University outlines how students can “evangelize” but not “proselyte” on their college campus, which is a Catholic higher education institution.
Marquette Professor Listed ‘Barrage of Microaggressions’ in Personal Diary
A Marquette University professor recounted, in a diary, of the ‘barrage of microaggressions’ she goes through in order to deal with her ‘whiteness.’
Anti-Semitism Lives on Big Campuses
And should elite university denizens question how enlightened they really are.
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Universities in Denial of Due Process
The good news is that students are not quite as ignorant of their constitutional rights as we’ve thought. The bad news is that most universities don’t want them to have any.
Barnard College says No to Petition Critical of Alleged ‘Eurocentric’ English Major
Barnard College rejects petition that criticized it for a “Eurocentric” English major at the women-only college.
Professor: University of Michigan Spends $11 Million on 93 Diversity Staffers
Professor Mark Perry at the University of Michigan concluded, after analyzing data from the university, that the university pays $11 million for 93 diversity staffers.
Is Gig Economy The New Normal?
It’s something you can expect to hear from media and academic elites. Therefore, like most of their pronouncements, it merits closer examination.