Gilbert T. Sewall
While Americans focus on a troubling presidential election, a broader contest for the West’s future is now playing out from Izmir to Berlin. Amid the prospect of British exit, the European Union continues to grapple with its unresolved migrant crisis….
A still unanswered question about the culture of guilt convulsing today’s colleges and universities: Are college presidents and staffs playing along with farcical student complaints to prevent campus ignition, or are they themselves diversity’s votaries who have fully internalized institutional…
Last fall was an angry time on campus. What now? Will the Ivy League and other top colleges and universities get back to business or resume the St. Vitus dance in the spring? The dreamed-of academic Shangri-las for ambitious, able…
When Arab gangs assaulted large numbers of women on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, the police, German media, and elected officials deliberately suppressed what had happened. Unruly migrant mobs spoil the feel-good spirit that European leaders demand about Mideastern newcomers,…
Remember Pajama Boy with a cup of hot chocolate in hand clad in plaid jammies? He was the bright-eyed twerp whose holiday gift in 2013 was the Gospel of Obamacare around the family fireplace. Well, Pajama Boy has moved on…
For thoughtful liberals the current campus turmoil is a nightmare. Academic progressives set this bonfire long ago. Now they cannot contain it. Worse, many of their colleagues are dancing around the flames with Dionysian glee, taking advantage of the eruptions…
On Wednesday, Dec. 2, in San Bernardino, California, Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik “donned assault clothing, armed themselves with rifles and stormed a holiday party attended by San Bernardino County employees, killing 14 people and wounding 17 others,”…
The anger convulsing colleges and universities is heartbreaking. Fifty years of good-faith efforts to broaden opportunity, diversify faculties, and promote inclusion for students of color seem to be going up in smoke. At dozens of schools nationwide, a small but vocal…
After a decade in the making, the Common Core State Standards are on track to replace uneven state standards in English, mathematics, and other basic academic subjects. But as a rising number of parents and elected officials question this emerging…
On a crisp autumn afternoon two boys are playing near the Central Park reservoir in Manhattan. They are on the lookout for alien zombies, texting reports to one other from their smartphones. Our boys live in a world of environmental…
