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by | Apr 16, 2022

“Disinvitation season” used to be a season when student activists worked to disinvite usually conservative commencement speakers. Now it’s “cancel…

by | Feb 16, 2022

The news of P.J. O’Rourke’s death this week was like a gut-punch. I learned about it on Wednesday morning, courtesy…

by | Jan 2, 2022

I guess I’ll start off 2022 by assuming the role of Grumpy Old Man. But after enduring the binge of…

by | Oct 30, 2021

Thursday Last night, as wifey and I were watching Perry Mason reruns from about sixty years ago or more, at about…

by | Oct 3, 2021

October 4, 2021 During my educational lifetime — K4-12 in private school (Riverdale Country School, NYC 1956-65); college (University of…

by | Aug 20, 2021

Many colleges and universities begin fall classes next week. The big question on students’ minds is what the semester will…

by | Aug 16, 2021

For the last week or so, I have been living in the middle of a construction zone. In defiance of…

by | Jun 25, 2021

Proof that groupthink reigns supreme in academia came last month as hundreds of academic departments released statements and thousands of…

by | May 27, 2021

The most infamous university in Palestine has a new president, and, surprisingly, he is an American professor at an Ivy…

by | Apr 25, 2021

My father-in-law, Bob Baillie, a wonderful man and maybe the best storyteller I ever knew — in a way that…

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