October 6, 2020

Music Theory, Narrative Constriction, and the Fix We’re In

Erich Korngold

How did the obscure field of Schenkerian music theory become the latest cancel culture battleground?

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October 6, 2020

Pulitzer Board Must Revoke Nikole Hannah-Jones' Prize

Peter Wood

We call on the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind the 2020 Prize for Commentary awarded to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her lead essay in “The 1619 Project.” 

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October 5, 2020

Trump Orders No Federal Funding for CRT and Stereotyping

National Association of Scholars

Last month, the president took two key actions affecting higher ed: a memorandum tackling Critical Race Theory and Executive Order 13950.

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October 5, 2020

Tom Klingenstein on Cancel Culture and 1619

National Association of Scholars

The issues that cancel culture presents are not new, but they are powerful in a way that we haven’t seen in generations. Complacency is, unfortunately, not an option.

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October 2, 2020

Mandarin Trouble at USC

James E. Moore, II

Professor Greg Patton has been canceled and removed from his classes, not for saying a racial slur, but for saying a Chinese word that sounds similar to one. How did this happen?

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October 2, 2020

Episode #53: Race in America Today with Wilfred Reilly

Peter Wood

Dr. Reilly joins us to discuss the campus climate today. What racism is, the 1776 Project, and much more.

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September 29, 2020

Critical Race Theory and New Racism

David Acevedo

What exactly are these new ideologies, and how have they grown to become mainstream?

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September 28, 2020

The Molotov Diploma

Peter Wood

The radicalization we see in the streets of American cities and the radicalization of American college students may look like two separate things. But they are not.

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September 25, 2020

Episode #52: Anti-Racism and Illiberal Education

Peter Wood

Many students this year are required to take a new course: anti-racism. What do these courses teach? Who teaches them? And what is included and excluded in their teaching of "anti-racism......

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September 22, 2020

Peter Wood Speaks at the White House Conference on American History

David Acevedo

Last Thursday, NAS President Peter Wood spoke at the first ever White House Conference on American History, illustrating how campus radicals and violent protesters are often cut from the same cloth.

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