Guest Articles A Race to the Bottom in Language Standards Richard Cravatts April 6, 2021 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,…
Guest Articles English Departments in the Ideological Thrall of Identity Politics Richard Cravatts October 27, 2020 In July, the English Department of the University of Chicago posted an odd statement on its website. In response to…
Faculty Lounge Concerns about Xenophobia leads to Effort to ‘Decenter English’ as Academic Language Accuracy in Academia September 7, 2017 Academics may be pushing to remove English as the lingua franca of academia due to allegedly rising xenophobia.
Faculty Lounge Michigan Professor: ‘The English language is Sexist’ Spencer Irvine April 19, 2017 An English professor at the University of Michigan claimed that “the English language is sexist” in a lecture at Iowa State University.
Faculty Lounge Yale Students Think English Classes Teach about Too Many White Male Poets Spencer Irvine June 4, 2016 Oh, gender inequality in history! Outrage mob assemble at Yale!
