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A schoolteacher was caught on video ranting about masks, vaccines, politics and former President Donald Trump in a Utah high school. The female high school teacher at Lehi High School taught chemistry, but chose to go into a politically-charged rant during class on the first day of classes. The teacher was identified as Leah Kinyon, […]

Videos of Afghans climbing walls and standing on active airport runways in the capital city of Kabul have fueled the ongoing debate about the Biden administration’s rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan. There have been unconfirmed reports of several Afghans dying amid the chaos, women and children beaten in the streets by Taliban fighters, beheading of Afghan […]

The much-maligned Critical Race Theory has inflamed parents, educators, politicians, and historians alike as it imposes a one-sided, partial, and incomplete view of the United States of America. Parent-driven protests, school board electoral campaigns, and interviews on cable television have placed competing views of America’s history front-and-center. Meanwhile, the media and Critical Race Theory supporters […]

The president of American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Randi Weingarten, denied that critical race theory existed. Weingarten leads the powerful teachers’ union and told Fox News host Martha MacCallum this past spring that critical race theory is not controversial. Now, Weingarten and the union pledged to defend teachers who defy bans on teaching Critical Race […]

Critical race theory is a lightning rod for criticism by conservatives and concerned parents across the country, and the battles are being fought publicly in school board meetings. During this ongoing battle, the mainstream media has waged a misinformation (or disinformation) campaign rife with false narratives and indirectly accused concerned parents of racism. Much of […]

Blowback against critical race theory has spread across the country, where Republican-majority state legislatures have proposed or passed laws banning critical race theory in school classrooms. Now, academics criticize these efforts as heavy-handed, authoritarian, and restrictive of academic free speech. The New York Times reported that “a coalition of more than six dozen scholarly and […]

In an increasingly disturbing trend, the Left and its critical race theory adherents have adopted a no-holds-barred approach to publicly shame and silence their opponents. In the northern Virginia suburbs of Loudoun County, left-wing activists have targeted concerned parents who raise legitimate concerns about critical race theory (known as CRT) in the county’s public schools. […]

Last week, President Joe Biden nominated Catherine Lhamon to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights within the Department of Education. Lhamon held the same position under the Obama Administration during which she launched a full-scale attack against due process protections afforded to college students accused of sexual assault. In 2011, the DOE issued […]

Amid the current environment of racially-charged rhetoric, protests, and riots, George Mason University’s president Gregory Washington announced that he would consider giving minorities a preference in the hiring process. According to Legal Insurrection, Washington sent an e-mail to the university’s faculty members in mid-April,  which noted that diversity should trump other qualifications in applicants. He […]

In the wake of the Atlanta spa shootings, the families of 8 victims, six Asian and two white, were forced to grieve the loss of a child. Despite the absence of evidence indicating that the crime was racially-motivated, Democrats and their aligned media organizations quickly determined that the attack was evidence of the inherent racism […]

Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. As the 2016 Internal Holocaust Remembrance Association’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism continues to be adopted by organizations and universities who find it […]

Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. As evidence of what the late Professor Edward Alexander has called “the explosive power of boredom” in rousing the liberal professoriate to its […]