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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)…

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…

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