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The Lakota East High School dramatic production of the Agatha Christie novel Ten Little Indians—initially cancelled by school administrators after it was called racially insensitive by a local NAACP leader—is back on, but with changes that imply the play will be compromised by political correctness.

Students and parents who think that they will find a conservative school south of the Mason Dixon line might want to rethink that assumption.

The NAACP’s Virginia chapter demanded that the commonwealth’s chief diversity officer resign over comments about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in a speech at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). In a speech to VMI cadets, Martin D. Brown said, “Let’s take a moment right now to kill that cow. DEI is dead.” Brown added, “We’re […]

Teachers’ unions and entrenched education bureaucratic interests do not take criticism well, especially when conservative, free-market and school-choice supporters correctly point out public education’s flaws. The public pressure against school choice and charter school supporters led one East Tennessee charter school to formally cut ties between it and Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian college which […]

A lawsuit filed by Missouri’s attorney general uncovered a pro-Critical Race Theory program at the taxpayer-funded Missouri State University. The public university, located in Springfield, has a series of diversity and inclusion programs, one of which is the Facing Racism Institute. The Institute came under fire when the attorney general, Eric Schmitt, claimed that Springfield […]

As one more bit of evidence that universities have become “islands of repression on a sea of freedom,” Georgetown University’s Law Center is currently experiencing paroxysms of anti-racist fervor after two adjunct professors teaching a joint negotiations class, Sandra Sellers and David Batson, were unknowingly recorded bemoaning the low academic performance of their black law […]

Seeming to give credence to Bertrand Russell’s observation that “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts,” Michael Saunders, a member of the University of Washington Student Senate, introduced a resolution to create a system for students and staff […]

While most people would consider topics such as science and math to be essential components of an elementary school education, the principal of East Side Community High in New York City believes students and their parents need to spend more time considering their “white identity.” Last week, Mark Federman, disseminated a “tool for action” asking […]

Since the unfortunate deaths of George Floyd and a number of other black individuals in interaction with law enforcement, campuses across the country have been roiled by paroxysms of self-righteous indignation over race, white police racism and purported attendant brutality, and the alleged existence of endemic racism in society and its major institutions—including, specifically, universities. […]

In George Orwell’s dystopian view of the totalitarian state in his novel 1984, freedom of speech and expression is controlled completely, and if the individual seeks to articulate his views openly it is considered to be something called a “thoughtcrime,” “the essential crime that contained all others in itself.” And in that repressive future, the […]

The death of a black man under the knee of a brutal policeman in Minneapolis sent shock waves of racial guilt throughout America, where protestors, led principally by Black Lives Matter, took to the streets to malign America’s troubled history with race and reignite the conversation about how to atone and pay for the country’s […]

A professor at the University of Oklahoma was barred from teaching a journalism course after comparing the n-word to the phrase “Ok boomer.”