The start of classes was just a week away when white supremacists clashed with counterprotesters in Charlottesville. The town that is home to the University of Virginia is now synonymous with American carnage. At the heart of the August 12 riot that left one young woman dead sat Robert E. Lee atop…
Not all the news coming out of Evergreen State College is bad. Only most of it.
When I read that the University of Michigan was hiring a “Bias Incident Prevention and Response Coordinator” for the purpose of “[enacting] cultural appropriation prevention initiatives,” I wrote a letter to university president Mark Schlissel, which I pretty well knew was unlikely to reach his…
Conservative journalist and speaker Ben Shapiro outlined for Congress on Tuesday the steps liberal opponents of free speech take to silence those with whom they disagree: “The first step is they say the validity or invalidity of an argument can be judged solely by the ethnic, sexual, racial or…
The Senate Judiciary Committee tackles social and philosophical questions out on the edges of constitutionality. They process proposed constitutional amendments, and their subcommittee on the Constitution oversees constitutional rights’ protection and enforcement. It was only a matter of time,…
In the contemporary campus climate, that lovely stretch from the latter half of April to the first blush of May is also controversial commencement speaker season. The most contested, in a year in which her raked-over confirmation proceedings garnered outsize news coverage, will probably be Betsy…
Faculty at Wake Forest University are revolting against a multidisciplinary campus institute because of suspicions it is secretly designed to expose students to conservative and libertarian views.
Friday's edition of the indispensable Inside Higher Ed brings news of the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, just in case you were wondering. According to Colleen Flaherty's report, an air of apprehension hangs over the event, which is being held, where else,…
As the Prufrock newsletter noted Monday morning, students at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies have asked for a "decolonized" curriculum—lighter on the dead white guys, in other words.
University of Pennsylvania students took down a large, centrally-located portrait of Shakespeare from the English Department to send a message of inclusivity, according to the department's chair.
A town-gown culture clash in Oberlin, Ohio reached a fresh level of absurdity last week. At local mom-and-pop store Gibson's Bakery, a shoplifting incident straight out of Spike Lee's oeuvre amplified into a boycott, followed by a counter-effort by the community: a "cash mob" to help keep the shop…
One more unforeseen consequence of Donald Trump’s election victory: College students who have been spending too much time binge drinking or binge watching now have a handy excuse for not turning in that required paper on time or for being unprepared for that exam. They can blame it on the election.…
Activists who advocate for the destruction of Israel will gather at George Mason University this weekend to strategize about expanding their presence on campuses across America.
In the last mile of a narrowing race, Donald Trump delivered his own plan to combat the college crisis everyone's been crowing about—per the highly effective advice of progressive policy pollsters. Trump's plan is no more his than Hillary Clinton's Bernie Sanders-inspired plan is hers. Trump's…
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement has been dominating the conversation on anti-Israel activity at universities over the past few years. Yet few have heard of the interconnected issue involving the misuse of funding from Title VI educational grant programs, which is an underlying…
As the safe space-trigger warning-microagression movement possesses universities across the country, a number of educators remain hopeful that students still long for a challenging education at an institution that allows them to freely exchange ideas.
Contemporary campus gospel tells us that "all white people are racist." It's more or less the collective motto of a growing subset of race-focused consulting groups, propped up by popular progressive social science.
Starting July 1, a new law in Tennessee will permit faculty and staff at all of the state's public universities to carry concealed firearms. Until then, the campuses remain "gun-free zones."
Onward from the last third of the twentieth century, a social activist ethic has chipped away at the core curriculum of many liberal arts colleges (with only rare notable exceptions). And while the death of the liberal arts by identity politics may seem old news, there are still battles fought and…
In the May 9th issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, the Scrapbook reports a particularly shameful episode of campus outrage. Recently, at George Mason University, thuggish puritanical progressivism apotheosized in a meeting of the university's faculty senate and a vote to disapprove of naming the law…