The Pretext of Diversity in American Universities A surfeit of reparations advocates (including Ta-Nehisi Coates) are openly disdainful of the diversity rationale—just not so disdainful as to actually oppose diversity initiatives. Kenneth R. Pike 6 Jan 2022 · 12 min read
The Land Where Angela Davis Is Queen I have watched the culture here slowly change—the troubling values I fled so far from followed me like a sort of reverse Manifest Destiny. Meghann McCracken 22 Dec 2021 · 23 min read
Academic Ideologues Are Corrupting STEM. The Silent Liberal Majority Must Fight Back 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. Anna Krylov and Jay Tanzman 18 Dec 2021 · 9 min read
The Aristocracy of Talent—A Review Wooldridge argues that meritocracy can only survive if it is infused with an ethos that prioritizes virtue, applying talent to ends that ennoble rather than enrich. Razib Khan 14 Dec 2021 · 11 min read
‘We Never Looked Back’ Education was divided along confessional lines into Catholic and Protestant school systems; for these purposes, Jews were designated Protestant. Ruth R. Wisse 27 Nov 2021 · 15 min read
The Push for Equity in Education Hurts Vulnerable Children the Most Implementation of newly popular equity policies will hinder the learning of many students before those policies are weakened or reversed. Russell T. Warne 25 Nov 2021 · 13 min read
The Rittenhouse Trial: A Legal Scholar Responds Our society cannot and will not survive a polity that permits armed children to walk the streets and kill with impunity. Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. 23 Nov 2021 · 16 min read
Affirmative Action Conundrums Kendi’s defensive salvo raises broader issues about affirmative action. Oliver Traldi 12 Nov 2021 · 10 min read
The Demoralization of the American Teacher One of the biggest challenges for teachers in their quest to give good grades is that test grades tend to be very low. Shane Trotter 3 Nov 2021 · 11 min read
Tales From the Gulag The administration, well-aware of these defamatory messages, did not refute them or even address their impropriety with the perpetrators of the misinformation. Lawrence M. Krauss 2 Nov 2021 · 10 min read
Cancel Culture Has a Lot to Answer For Cancel culture prescribes affirmative action as the means to install diversity in all activities that it values. Peter H. Schuck 21 Oct 2021 · 5 min read
My Late Father Was a Great Teacher. He Wouldn’t Last a Week in the Modern Classroom. All teachers have a hope of how they will be perceived by the students sitting in their classrooms. Too many of us today want to be perceived as accommodating and nice, compassionate and endlessly empathetic. Jeremy S. Adams 17 Oct 2021 · 7 min read
What Is Diversity? And Why Is It Valuable? People differ from one another in many different ways. Justin P. McBrayer 6 Oct 2021 · 11 min read