by David N. Myers When feckless agitators accuse Derek Penslar of antisemitism, you know that something has gone way off the rails. We should be clear: What they are attacking is not just an eminent scholar, but more broadly, the American university as the site of expertise and ...
The joke is told about a poll taker who asks about ignorance and apathy in the country. “I don’t know, and I don’t care,” says the respondent. The consequences of that attitude are playing out across America. There are two questions most reporters never seem to ask when it comes ...
by Cal Thomas We are constantly told how necessary it is to find the “root causes” of everything, from crime, to illegal immigration, to the wave of antisemitism spreading across many college campuses and in our streets. Often, this call to examine root causes is simply a ...
Rep. Elise Stefanik set a clever trap at a House hearing on antisemitism on campus, snaring the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard and MIT. The presidents, Liz Magill of Penn, Claudine Gay of Harvard and MIT’s Sally Kornbluth, walked right into it and Magill has now lost ...
by Christopher Wilkinson While West Virginia University was in the throes of the fiscal crisis resulting in the elimination of faculty, staff and disciplines, there were repeated assurances that whatever change took place, one could still obtain a liberal education. But why care about a ...
by Tyler Cowen For many foreigners, the prevalence of athletics is one of the strangest features of the U.S. system of higher education. America is a leader in Nobel prizes, and its universities are home to many of the world’s greatest thinkers. At the same time, many U.S. colleges ...