Gilbert T. Sewall
University of Missouri, with Yale, was one of the first politically driven campus explosions during the 2015-16 academic year. Last fall, Black Lives Matter-fueled demonstrations triggered a threatened football team boycott and the president’s resignation. Missouri has since seen a…
A provocative cover letter sent last week to entering University of Chicago freshmen along with a book on academic freedom started the school year with a bang, when the respected college dean of students John Ellison declared: we do not…
On July 14 the California board of education added LGBT mandates to the state’s new K-12 social studies program, revised for the first time in ten years. This ended a long struggle over school-based Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender studies,…
Trusto is finishing up the four-day Sustainable Food Conference in Telluride. Cricket, that genius, got him a grant through the One World Holding Hands Fund. (Cricket trained with Alice Waters and at Cafe Ciarlatano in Trastevere, it’s often said with…
On it goes, the puzzling, never quite resolved distemper in colleges and universities. Tantrums, threats, hoaxes, hurt feelings, and demands have been on parade this dismal academic year. Still, many school observers, liberal and conservative, have trouble figuring out what…
A reconsideration of her magnum opus. I recently revisited Hillary Rodham Clinton’s It Takes a Village, published 20 years ago. The village has since then become a Clinton trademark. It’s part of the Clinton personae and shtick. “We know that…
As Dean Khurana might say, he’s propagating exclusionary values to create new power imbalances. It is taking a long time to kill Harvard’s legendary clubs or at least pressure recalcitrant clubs to co-educate. The future Newsweek editor Evan W. Thomas…
If a nation’s history is reduced to score settling grievance, forget about its future. Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 concludes a long, concerted drive to reimage U.S. currency. More to the point, it illustrates a profound, probably permanent shift…
‘Islamophobia’: U.S. cities face anti-Muslim backlash, shouted the USA Today headline two days after the Brussels airport and metro assault. “Cities across the USA are preparing for the next phase that inevitably follows a terror attack: anti-Muslim backlash,” the article began….
It’s Brussels now. Dozens dead, and some 230 wounded at last count. More dismembered bodies and splattered blood. More Euro-jihad. Deadly terrorist attacks occurred yesterday morning, with two explosions at the city’s international airport about 8:00 a.m. and a third…
