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People of goodwill tie themselves into the most absurd intellectual knots as they attempt to discuss affirmative action without acknowledging its inherent unpleasantness.
Two months into my first semester as a doctoral student, Donald Trump was elected. A few years later the coronavirus hit. That summer George Floyd was murdered. Each of these events, along with many less seismic ones in between, elicited a similar response from the faculty, students, and administrators around
One of the biggest challenges for teachers in their quest to give good grades is that test grades tend to be very low.
The administration, well-aware of these defamatory messages, did not refute them or even address their impropriety with the perpetrators of the misinformation.
Cancel culture prescribes affirmative action as the means to install diversity in all activities that it values.
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.
People differ from one another in many different ways.
For a start, sex can be pretty delightful, and if you are a smart person (as many—though by no means all—academics are), you will likely find that sex with other smart people is much more satisfying than sex with the dumb.
The educational advancement of women is strange when viewed alongside the floundering of men.
Over the past few decades, schools have embraced practices of inclusion (also known as mainstreaming) which prioritize keeping students with disabilities in regular classes as much as possible.
In a 2018 report published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), China ranked first in mathematical proficiency among 15-year-olds, while the United States was in 25th place.
The January 6th riot does make for a visually dramatic backdrop to an exploration of the fascistic strain in modern populist politics.
They’re embarking on an experiment that I think will ultimately fail and will ultimately harm children, but it’s an experiment that they’re entitled to embark on.
The increasing power of college diversity bureaucrats over academic affairs since the 1990s has been stunning.
Like other Americans, I’m depressed by the growing level of political partisanship. There seem to be a lot more people with extreme beliefs yelling at us. The ends of the belief spectrum are engorged, the center hollowed out. It’s frequently alleged that extremists don’t care about truth,