Transgender professor Domen “Vesna” Novak of the University of Cincinnati received $214,998 to develop an app to help with “transgender voice training.” The goal of the app is to help men who identify as transgender to raise their vocal pitches to sound…
Unlike some other New York college professors who cancelled classes the day after our election, my students had a unique opportunity to celebrate democracy and the system of government created by the Framers of our Constitution in 1787. Michelle Greene,…
A writing seminar course titled “Abolish the Family” is being offered for students at the University of Pennsylvania this semester. In its course description, the seminar portrays families as “sites of pain, trauma, and uneven distributions of labor.” In this episode of The…
Leave it to the editors of Foreign Affairs, the establishment journal of international relations, in the wake of the Biden debate debacle and Donald Trump’s vigorous response to his assassination attempt, to find two political science professors to conclude that…
How many fields of pursuit in America come with a guarantee that the employee can never be fired? Owners typically cannot be fired, but corporate boards of directors often fire CEOs who come in with poor results. Sports managers and coaches…
Before perusing the long and impressive list of Joseph Epstein’s books that fills two pages of the front matter of his latest collection, Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays, I would’ve described myself as very familiar with his work….
These are not the greatest times for university faculty and nonacademic staff. Falling enrollments have squeezed budgets at many schools, leading to small or even non-existent salary increases during a period of enhanced inflation. The salary surveys of the American…
Earlier this week, the Catholic University of America terminated the contract of a psychology professor who invited a self-proclaimed “abortion doula” to speak for a class. University president Peter Kilpatrick announced the decision on Tuesday, Jan. 30 — just one…
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,…
