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They’re embarking on an experiment that I think will ultimately fail and will ultimately harm children, but it’s an experiment that they’re entitled to embark on.
The increasing power of college diversity bureaucrats over academic affairs since the 1990s has been stunning.
Like other Americans, I’m depressed by the growing level of political partisanship. There seem to be a lot more people with extreme beliefs yelling at us. The ends of the belief spectrum are engorged, the center hollowed out. It’s frequently alleged that extremists don’t care about truth,
I grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, in a fundamentalist Christian community called The Lamb of God. What began in the mid-1970s as a small group of born-again hippies who played music, prayed together, and proselytized to whoever would listen about Jesus’s unconditional love and mercy, descended
In my first 10 years of college teaching, from the mid-60s to mid-70s, I modeled myself on my best teachers—men and women who questioned my ideas vigorously. They let me know that I mattered to them, they praised when praise was due, and they pushed me hard. Often I
But we must also strive to raise realistic, resilient children who are better prepared for life’s quotidian challenges.
There is now a growing international movement of men and women dedicated to resisting the anti-masculinity narrative.
The right to free speech includes speech that might offend, shock, or disturb. And it includes not only the right to express such speech but also the right to receive it.
In education, we have lots of wars. There are the math wars, the reading wars, and the ongoing culture wars. What is less common is for all of these wars to ignite at once along with the declaration of a new war or two, just for the heck of it.
Minerva says that the frequency with which the journal will release issues isn’t yet known—it will depend on the rate at which the editors receive quality submissions.
Rampant grade inflation has made grades less useful while, ironically, making them the entire point of school.
Indeed, given existing levels of residential segregation on all continents—urban, suburban, and rural—it is also not practically possible (and almost always politically impossible) to redraw the lines that determine attendance in ways that would produce more integration.
Just as we can teach children multiplication facts, we assume we can teach them the attitudes to the world that we want them to have.
The path to progress is definitely not paved by destroying the epistemological framework bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment.
The ranks of this new ruling class are refreshed by immigrant academics who come to understand themselves in the way progressivism understands them: as minorities who can also act victim-like if they want—a precious endowment in the cultural academic market.