Category Archives: Academia

Expulsion of UO Students: Canary in a Coalmine

The University of Oklahoma has expelled students from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity for their speech. In particular, for this chant they did on a bus: There will never be a nigger at SAE There will never be a … Continue reading

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The Professor & the Career-Ending Blog Post

“Stripping a Professor of Tenure Over a Blog Post” is a blow by blow account of the circumstances surrounding one professor (obviously a conservative) being stripped of tenure for a blog post he made: Professor John McAdams is being stripped … Continue reading

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Walzer: Islamism & the Left

Writing in Dissent, longtime Jewish enthocentrist lefty Michael Walzer discusses “Islamism and the Left“. It’s almost embarassing to listen to (or read) the Left contort itself into a pretzel while discussing Islam. As the reality of contemporary Islam becomes more … Continue reading

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Give It Time…

Progress marches ever onward… with the occasional hiccup: Duke University is backing away from a proposal earlier this week to allow a weekly call to prayer for Muslim students at the Duke Chapel bell tower. The proposal would have involved, … Continue reading

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On the Pomo Mess in Academia

In “On Loving Literature”, William Giraldi comments on the collective death of English Departments across academia, 45 years in the making: All English professors, alas, are not created equal. To have studied under Lionel Trilling or F. R. Leavis is … Continue reading

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A Look Inside the Anti-Police Protest Movement

In a must-read piece, James Piereson gives us “A Look Inside the Anti-Police Protest Movement“. Remember that story a few weeks ago where: On the evening of December 13, several hundred supporters of the movement marched across the Brooklyn Bridge … Continue reading

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Is Social Psychology Biased Against Republicans?

In The New Yorker (of all places) is a piece profiling Jonathan Haidt’s ideas (“Is Social Psychology Biased Against Republicans?“): On January 27, 2011, from a stage in the middle of the San Antonio Convention Center, Jonathan Haidt addressed the … Continue reading

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Yale Chaplain Who Wrote Controversial NYT Letter Resigns

Another white guy is purged, this time for upsetting The Tribe: Rev. Bruce Shipman, the Episcopal chaplain at Yale, has resigned in the wake of controversy over a New York Times letter he wrote suggesting Jews were collectively culpable for … Continue reading

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Black colleges face hard choices on $25M gift from conservative Koch brothers

You can’t make this shit up: America’s black colleges are struggling for funds. The Republican Party is struggling to attract black voters. Enter a $25 million gift to the United Negro College Fund from the conservative Koch brothers, which has … Continue reading

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Slavoj Žižek: Plagiarist

Astonishing evidence that PoMo superstar Slavoj Žižek has completely plagiarized an AmRen review of Kevin MacDonald’s The Culture of Critique. I can’t emphasize enough how much Žižek is a PoMo, leftwing darling. To this story, all I can say is… … Continue reading

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