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When Hakeem Oluseyi exposed false claims about former NASA director James Webb, anti-Webb activists tried to take Oluseyi down as well.
I have known Klaus Fiedler for over forty years, and he is one of the most fair-minded and decent scientists I have ever met.
In its panicked dismissal of Klaus Fiedler, the APS has failed to deliver procedural justice
When I learned that Alice Walker and I would both be speaking at the same literary festival, I seized the chance to expose her views.
Meg Smaker’s film about the rehabilitation of former Guantanamo terror suspects was nuanced and sympathetic. But the mob didn’t care.
Academics who study ancient Paleoindian populations are increasingly being denied access to skeletons, artifacts, and even old x-rays and research reports. We need to start fighting back
Human identity is inextricably tied to group affiliation. So what happens when all the groups we know and love become ‘problematic’?
When high-school students can’t tolerate hearing the name of a book title, we know there’s a problem in education.
As the legendary comedian chalks up prestigious awards and plays to packed houses, his progressive critics look increasingly ridiculous.
The connection with the Beit family and its financial generosity has continued almost unbroken since the founding of the College.
We need to break the spell of illiberal ideology, and come back to our collective senses—to stop self-censoring in fear of the mob and excusing nonsense in the name of political allyship, and to start defending the values of pluralism, humanism, and democracy.
Cancel culture prescribes affirmative action as the means to install diversity in all activities that it values.
It is unsettling to consider how similar today’s public cancellations are to those public executions.
The world of literature has expanded its horizons in recent decades, and the quality of writing from voices that may not have been published in decades past is something for which we should be grateful.