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by | Aug 17, 2023

If recent reports are to be believed, academic crimes are on the rise. In a world with shrinking enrollments and…

by | Jun 22, 2023

Springer Nature, an academic publisher, retracted a transgenderism study on a technicality after receiving an open letter from pro-transgender activists…

by | May 29, 2023

In 1983, having spent four years earning a PhD in English, I instantly turned down the reasonably secure entry-level faculty…

by | Mar 27, 2023

Societies advance through the creation, expression, and evaluation of alternative ideas. Therefore, for almost a millennium, we have had universities…

by | Feb 26, 2023

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage…

by | Feb 9, 2023

Despite some welcome pushback from Elon Musk at Twitter, cancel culture continues to be all the rage. There are many…

by | Jan 7, 2023

My name has now been added to the long and depressing list of high-profile academic “cancellations.” I recently resigned my…

by | Jan 4, 2023

Last year was a bad year for academia. Every week, the Chronicle for Higher Education documented faculty disillusionment, student anxiety,…

by | Nov 30, 2022

Abandoning almost all pretenses of scholarly inquiry and academic rigor, Arizona State University opened a new center this fall semester…

by | May 30, 2022

Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton’s Columns, Commentaries, and Criticism By Roger Scruton (Bloomsbury Continuum, 256 pages, $28)…

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