A collection of 399 posts
That slaves were able to develop beneficial skills while in bondage is a tribute to the human ability to wrest value and create meaning even under conditions of almost unfathomable duress.
Two years after being falsely smeared as a white supremacist by a diversity trainer, a longtime school principal committed suicide
The coming cultural collapse of American higher education.
So long as Hoover’s scholarship has met the standards expected of her, it is not clear that she’s done anything wrong.
Unless we can conquer our anxiety and restructure the way we interact, dreams of social unification will remain dead on arrival.
The project that (finally) got me hooked on Canadian history.
Chinese-supported student groups in the West are being used to control discussion about China, censor critics, and lead protests against invited speakers
Jennifer Gries used claims of rape to punish a co-worker. Activists at Stanford used her lies for their own purposes.
The disgraceful scenes at Stanford are a flawless embodiment of how diversity doctrine distorts academic life and constrains decision-making.
Tenure is allowing humanities scholars to write and teach our profession into well-earned irrelevance.
If you think academics can avoid abuses by keeping out of politics, think again.
In praise of combative and cantankerous instruction.
The investigation into the polarizing law professor violates the most basic tenets of academic freedom.
A new book by John Sellars explores the life’s work and extraordinary legacy of the man he has provocatively called “the single most important human being ever to have lived.”
Universities cannot withstand the assault on objective truth.