Academic dishonesty strikes many people as boring. After all, it is academic. It is not like Sam Bankman-Fried, the “crypto king,” making $8 billion disappear into thin air. It is not like Florida dentist Charlie Adelson paying a hitman to…
The first 24 years of the 21st century have been the era of Woke Supremacy in our institutions of higher learning. Universities have downplayed traditional academic standards and expectations while becoming centers for promoting ideologies centered around combatting perceived injustices,…
“Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate (your university’s) code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?” Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., asked three university presidents on Tuesday. The occasion was a House Committee on Education and the Workforce…
Viewers nationwide tuned in to Fox News’ recent debate between two governors who are not political rivals but whose views on education couldn’t be more divided. At the heart of the divide between Florida Gov. and GOP presidential candidate Ron…
Woody Allen famously said, “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” If he’s right, that’s bad news for some 30 percent of public school students who, according to a recent study conducted by Stanford professor Thomas Dee, were chronically absent…
I recently had an altercation with a typical graduate of our American system of education. That is, I got into it with a self-satisfied ignoramus. The topic was the vast areas of general knowledge that college freshmen are innocent of,…
I arrived at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Thursday, Nov. 16 to deliver a speech on Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. The talk’s blunt title, selected by the local Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter, reflected…
Over the years I’ve had many hard things to say about the ambience of wealth and ambition at Princeton University, my alma mater, and about the school’s abandonment of its once coherent curriculum in favor of vague “area requirements.” One…
If you hear of your school district making math more inclusive or bending mathematics to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, run for the hills! It’s time to find a new school. Recently, Pittsburgh’s Public Schools Board approved a $50,000…
College enrollments in the humanities have declined, even more than the general fall in the numbers attending college. West Virginia University recently laid off numerous faculty in the humanities, especially foreign languages, and other schools have done so on a…