For those following the academic decline at U.S. universities, the decision by New York University to fire Maitland Jones Jr., an 84-year-old organic chemistry professor, comes as no surprise. Jones, who wrote the textbook on organic chemistry, retained a strict…

Much has been written about the intellectual failings of America’s institutions of higher learning, including their ignorance — or outright suppression — of the achievements of Western civilization, to which the modern university owes its existence. Far less, however, has…

One of the largely forgotten “isms” in the litany of guilt-inducing “bigotries” thrown at conservatives from the left has been getting a little play lately — colonialism. There’s racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, speciesism — we know those only too well…

“I am a palaeoecologist at the University of Maine and, like the nearly one in four people capable of becoming pregnant in their lifetime in the United States, I have an abortion story,” begins an article in Nature magazine. The…

In a refreshing religious liberty result from the world of academia, free speech won and preferred pronouns lost. A professor at Shawnee State University, in Portsmouth, Ohio, will be able to honor his conscience as a Christian who believes God…

Georgetown University has decided to place conservative legal scholar Ilya Shapiro on administrative leave. He is currently under investigation for what he referred to as an “inartful tweet.” Shapiro, who is the vice president and director of the Robert A….

Having worked as a university professor in the United States for over 30 years, I have had more than my share of run-ins with the politically correct campus crackpots. Evidently, my holding a number of lefty political views confers incomplete…