Despite some welcome pushback from Elon Musk at Twitter, cancel culture continues to be all the rage. There are many…
My name has now been added to the long and depressing list of high-profile academic “cancellations.” I recently resigned my…
Last year was a bad year for academia. Every week, the Chronicle for Higher Education documented faculty disillusionment, student anxiety,…
Abandoning almost all pretenses of scholarly inquiry and academic rigor, Arizona State University opened a new center this fall semester…
Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton’s Columns, Commentaries, and Criticism By Roger Scruton (Bloomsbury Continuum, 256 pages, $28)…
“Disinvitation season” used to be a season when student activists worked to disinvite usually conservative commencement speakers. Now it’s “cancel…
The news of P.J. O’Rourke’s death this week was like a gut-punch. I learned about it on Wednesday morning, courtesy…
I guess I’ll start off 2022 by assuming the role of Grumpy Old Man. But after enduring the binge of…
Thursday Last night, as wifey and I were watching Perry Mason reruns from about sixty years ago or more, at about…
