So many hurt feelings of college snowflakes and their administrators: DePaul University will no longer allow students to chalk political messages on the sidewalks of its campus because of the “offensive, hurtful, and divisive” nature of pro-Trump chalking found on campus last week.
Read the articleUniversities are now a battleground over free speech: Tensions are rising at Harvard Law School (HLS) after a confrontation between student activist group Reclaim Harvard Law (RHL) and students who are concerned about freedom of speech. Last week, HLS student Bill Barlow put up posters—which read “Reclaim Harvard Law = Trump”—challenging RHL’s occupation of Caspersen Student […]
Read the articleChalk writings appeared on college campuses across the U.S., whereby liberal ‘snowflake’ college students complained of how offensive “Trump 2016” is to them.
Read the articleAll this hoopla because of the endorsement of Jeff Sessions (who is a longtime U.S. Senator for the state of Alabama) of Donald Trump. Photo by Gage Skidmore Photo by Gage Skidmore
Read the articleWhen academics point out the problems with polls, they might wind up trying to regulate them. “Because one of the things I want to say about public opinion polls is that they are the child of a very bad marriage between academics and journalists,” Jill Lepore, a staff writer for the New Yorker, said in […]
Read the articleThe president of the evangelical Oklahoma Wesleyan University, Dr. Everett Piper, was adamant about sending children to the right university and academic institution, in his recent interview with The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas. When Thomas asked him what could be done about sending children to liberal institutions, Piper said, “Stop sending your kids to these […]
Read the articleAs Inside Higher Ed reported, the study found that 32% of students are going for Bernie, 15% for Hillary Clinton, then Trump with 6%.
Read the articleThere’s something else that universities have missed in their diversity checklist. “Because when we teach communism is good, capitalism is bad, when we teach self-actualization is the goal of the academy rather than selflessness and sacrifice and confession, when we teach arrogance and narcissism rather than humility in the classroom, why are we surprised to […]
Read the articleEditor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on the American Spectator’s website. Some two thousand years ago, the Messiah journeyed into Jerusalem. He came as the people’s redeemer, to expiate their sins. As he drew near Bethpage and Bethany, he sent two disciples before him to fetch a tethered colt. He would mount the colt and […]
Read the articleWe should start numbering the multitude of academic ironies we cover. Here’s the latest: Those most willing to heap the “fascist” label on their foes, may be most guilty of it. The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas recently interviewed Oklahoma Wesleyan University President Dr. Everett Piper and asked about the growing intolerance and protests on college […]
Read the articleWhen will socialist Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) be held accountable by the media for his own revolutionary and hateful rhetoric? “Not Donald Trump, not anyone else will be successful in dividing us based on race or our country of origin,” says Sanders. Meredith Warren, a Republican political analyst and consultant, counters: “But Sanders should […]
Read the articleNow that the media have helped establish Trump as the runaway frontrunner, these reporters and news organizations are starting to have buyer’s remorse, comparing him to Hitler, Kim Jung Il, and Stalin. Harvard professor Danielle Allen penned a column for The Washington Post entitled, “The moment of truth: We must stop Trump.” “I believe that Hillary […]
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