October 26, 2009
Abigail Alger at Reformer's Blog has a good article on "Why Fat Studies (and All Identity Studies) Hurt Higher Education": But Fat Studies, like all identity studies, begins with the end......
October 26, 2009
A reader from Australia commented on Tom Wood's article "The Marriage of Affirmative Action and Transformative Education": This year, I was in a compulsory BA class that used transformative ed......
October 26, 2009
The University Alaska professor who was denied grant funding for engaging in sustainability advocacy responds to the NAS.
October 23, 2009
Check out my article at NAS.org, "Sustainability Skepticism Has Arrived." I juxtapose two news stories from this week on challenges to the sustainability doctrine: These stories are parallel. Both......
October 23, 2009
Two controversies this week wrought an unexpected clash between sustainability ideologues and universities that decided to stand on fundamental principles of higher education.
October 22, 2009
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) today celebrates ten years ofdefending Constitutional rights on college campuses. Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate founded FIRE in 19......
October 22, 2009
In this article, Ashley Thorne discusses the continuing vitality of the "social justice" crusade on many American campuses. I'd be willing to bet my last dollar that in these "social justice" pr......
October 22, 2009
Andrew Smarick holds the White House accountable for its use of education stimulus funds.
October 21, 2009
Today is the seventh annual Campus Sustainability Day (CSD), a celebration invented by the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), in collaboration with Second Nature. Second Nature, rem......
December 16, 2025
Disparate impact theory is on the Trump administration’s chopping block, signaling a move away from discriminatory government policy practices....
March 3, 2026
The U.S. strike on Iran and the foreign funding shaping how universities respond to it....
March 11, 2026
Trump’s EOs and the Supreme Court make DEI illegal—but colleges keep rebranding it to dodge the law....
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
February 21, 2014
Is art worth dying for? The Monuments Men considers the value of good art and its purpose in preserving a cultural heritage....
October 17, 2018
William Young finds much to praise in the hit musical....
