Douglas Belkin of The Wall Street Journal reports that a congressional hearing in December sparked outrage over how top universities dealt with antisemitism. After the hearing Harvard, MIT, and UPenn came under intense scrutiny, with presidents of two universities resigning. Now it’s Columbia’s turn to face legislators. Belkin writes: Four months after a congressional hearing […]
Respectful Arguments Rooted in Facts
Teaching Students How to Think Mr. Diermeie,,chancellor of Vanderbilt University, defends Vanderbilt’s position that free speech is alive and well at Vanderbilt. Its teaching includes (if not stresses) an appreciation from students from a range of perspectives—”to learn how, not what, to think.” The university remains one of the last places in society where people […]
More Universities Should End DEI
The University of Florida has ended its funding and employment for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs and staff. The move saved $5 million in taxpayer and tuition dollars to be refocused on educating students. More universities should follow U of F’s example and end funding for divisive DEI programs on campus. The Editors at […]
Significant Development: Top College Reinstates SAT’s
David Leonhardt of The New York Times tells his readers how, in a significant development, Dartmouth College, as of next year, will start requiring applicants to submit standardized test scores once again. Leonhardt tells us how other colleges may follow: Dartmouth College announced this morning that it would again require applicants to submit standardized test […]
The Insane Indoctrination Centers Called ‘Schools’
America has watched as schools and colleges have become ground zero for the spread of left-wing ideology. At Lewrockwell.com, Gary D. Barnett laments what he calls “The insane indoctrination centers called ‘schools.’” He writes: “One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination […]
Not a Real Goodbye
The Galling Farce of Being Graded by Gay “This is not a decision I came to easily,” said Claudine Gay, now ex-president of Harvard University amid scandals involving antisemitism and plagiarism. Many opined that Gay was “untouchable.” But as Christopher Rufo notes in the WSJ, the campaign to topple Harvard’s 30th president was about understanding […]
TWO DOWN: What About Sally Kornbluth?
Two of the three university presidents who obstinately maintained in front of Congress that calling for the genocide of Jews could be ok depending on the context have now resigned. First to go was UPenn’s M. Elizabeth Magill, who resigned only four days after the embarrassing hearings had concluded. More recently, Harvard’s Claudine Gay has […]
Harvard: A Chance to Reset
The Phony Scholar With Claudine Gay’s resignation, how will Harvard rebalance? Like many, the WSJ wonders, will the Harvard Corporation that chose Claudine Gay and presided over the University’s debacle rebalance by installing an educator who isn’t afraid to challenge the school’s dominant and censorious progressive factions? In the months since Hamas brutally murdered Israeli […]
Sixth-Grade Math
“Jimmy the Numbers” In a WSJ article, James Freeman reports on whoppers from the state of Washington. Gov. Jay Inslee fibs about the costs of his beloved climate agenda is just the tip of the iceberg. A keen reader of “Best of the Web.” notes how Inslee’s official falsehoods may have been aggressively enforced within […]
Why Plagiarism Matters
“It All Depends on Context” In The Spectator.com, Peter W. Wood refers to the song “Auld Lang Syne,” meaning “for the sake of old times., a phrase hardly in need of explanation on New Year’s Eve. Robert Byrns wrote Auld Lang Syne in 1788, after reportedly hearing it from an old man. Mr. Wood wonders, […]
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