California Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a law banning legacy and donor considerations in admissions at all private colleges and universities in the state. California is the fifth state to do so, following Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, and Virginia. Newsom praised…
Higher education has been a cesspool of anti-Americanism, censorious leftism, and cultural radicalism for longer than I have been alive. The moral rot is, and always has been, particularly acute at Ivy League or otherwise putatively “elite” institutions. The pro-Hamas…
Institutional Neutrality and the Truth I have noted in recent days that several American colleges have declared themselves “institutionally neutral,” meaning that they will no longer, as institutions, take positions on contested social and political questions. They rightly note that…
Every year when the school season starts I remember that I was a lousy student in school until I got to college and was finally able to study what I wanted. The fundamental reason was disinterest and my youthful eagerness…
Some parents seeking to have kids through IVF are willing to pay female Ivy League students exorbitant sums of money to use their “donated” eggs in the process. On today’s episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, hosts Ellie Gardey Holmes and Aubrey…
The end of the spring semester offered a welcome reprieve from campus protests at colleges across the nation. Now, as the new semester commences, keffiyeh-clad students are picking up right where they left off. Some professors are preparing for disruption….
On American campuses since October 7th of 2023 Jewish students have been targeted with unprecedented levels of harassment and intimidation. Calls to “globalize the intifada” inside and outside classrooms, encampments where Zionists are barred by thug minders, countless demonstrations where…
Imagine that you are a lover of folk music and your friend prefers the music of the big bands. Imagine that each of you is trying to persuade the other of the high worth of what he loves the best….
So-called “higher” education is supposed to be all about truth, beauty, and progress, achieved through learning and discovery. “Truths” are factually accurate assertions. I think the biggest problem of America’s colleges and universities today is not its high cost and…
