WASHINGTON — I have long held to the belief that the most conformist institutions in America are its universities. More recently, I have come to the conclusion that high schools are joining the ranks of universities in regimenting thought among…
Who killed Tyre Nichols? The 29-year-old father, lensman, and skateboarder drove home after capturing the sunset in a Memphis park on Jan. 7. “Photography helps me look at the world in a more creative way,” Nichols stated on his website….
During the last few years, most conservatives have become at least dimly aware that leftist ideology, in the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), has infected public education. It’s unlikely, however, that many Americans realize just how far the…
In campaign speeches across the fruited plain, conservative candidates talk a good anti-woke game, pointing out rightly what a danger radical leftist cultural schemes are to what’s left of American civilization and promising to do something to stop them. Too…
Earlier this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis set off alarm bells in academia by requesting an accounting of expenditures related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory (CRT) in Florida’s public universities. For years, Republicans have been asleep…
As America celebrated the federal holiday named in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the sad reality is that the dream of integration celebrated by Dr. King in that famous 1963 speech — and elsewhere — is being flatly…
My name has now been added to the long and depressing list of high-profile academic “cancellations.” I recently resigned my tenured position at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, due to an episode — sadly typical of American higher education…
Karl Marx once famously commented that Hegel wrote that history repeats itself. Marx then supplemented this by noting that this happens the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. And it is perhaps ironic that this is nowhere more…
Under the framework of critical race theory, we have been encouraged to view all institutions and elements of our society as products or promulgators of white supremacy. Among these newly “racist” doctrines is the role of merit in education and…
