The Academic Gulag: Are You Politically Correct, Comrade Professor?
Years ago, I predicted that colleges would write commitment to “social justice,” “diversity,” etc., into mission statements and then make it part of their job descriptions. I never imagined they would...
View Article“Diversity” versus Freedom: The Tragic Case of Southern Illinois University
In the early 1990s, I entered academia when the “diversity machine” was cranking up. Today, it is completely out of control: religious freedom, racial freedom, free speech and a free press are all at...
View ArticleChampions of Freedom: NAS and FIRE Meet in Washington, D.C.
If there are two organizations responsible for keeping the torch of academic freedom alive, they are the National Association of Scholars and FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education). The...
View Article“I am Woman”: Sharia is OK with Me
Surprise, surprise: multicultural dogma and concern for “the Other” have seeped from college campuses to the highest corridors of power (again). To wit: The first veiled female appointee in the White...
View ArticleTunnel of Oppression: Communist Theme Park
Over at my academic freedom blog, I posted news of a Communist Theme Park in Lithuania. On college campuses, there is a “tunnel of oppression” movement to teach young people how awful this country has...
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Don’t Know Much About History: Colleges Teach U.S. History with Politics Left...
The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has released an in-depth study of the assigned readings used in required American history survey courses at University of Texas-Austin and Texas A&M. The...
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