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Category Archives: Academia
A Rape On Campus
Wikipedia: “A Rape on Campus” is a now-retracted Rolling Stone article by Sabrina Erdely originally published on November 19, 2014, which claimed to describe a group sexual assault at the University of Virginia (UVA). It has since been discredited and … Continue reading
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How a casino tycoon is trying to combat an exploding pro-Palestinian movement on campuses
Different groups have different interests. I see nothing diabolical in being pro or anti-Israel, pro or anti Islam, pro or anti-Jewish, black, gay, etc. American college campuses are not moral sewers because they are more anti-Israel than other parts of … Continue reading
The end of Baylor’s Art Briles
ESPN: “Art Briles has talked about his “nonjudgmental” program that wanted “mavericks” and prided itself on giving second chances. That attitude, mixed with indifference toward victims, did him in.” How do you think he turned around Baylor’s football program? By … Continue reading
Hard Truths About Race on Campus
By JONATHAN HAIDT and LEE JUSSIM: …None of this means that we are doomed to discriminate by race. A 2001 study by Robert Kurzban of the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences … Continue reading
Will Larry Summers Take the High Road or the Low Road in Fighting Political Correctness?
Steve Sailer writes: As I’ve been saying for a long time, the crucial “swing vote” not in numbers but in influence are ethnocentric center-left Jews, such as Larry Summers. For example, the continued growth of political correctness, diversity, and, lately, … Continue reading
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UC Regents need a history lesson
David Myers is a UCLA professor of Jewish studies who is way on the left, but I usually find myself agreeing with most everything he publishes in the Jewish Journal, including his latest: One can only hope that the Regents, … Continue reading
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Diversity vs. Freedom of Speech at the U. of California
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Just looked in the cabinet and I’m all out of caring. * Liberals love to Balkanize, and it’s coming right back at them. * It is rather hard to avoid being anti-Zionist as the term … Continue reading
Protesters As Adrenalin Junkies
Robert Weisberg writes: Recent campus race-related demonstrations are often bizarre. Clearly, there are no rational, cost/benefit explanations for this agitation, especially considering that many student protesters are allocating time better spent on academic pursuits. Do black Cornell University protestors honestly … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: ‘Why does the reporter assume that there’s something tragic about young Keith Frazier not getting much of an education?’
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Because liberals view higher education institutions as socializing/indoctrination centers that churn out people with the correct beliefs and people who are properly socialized and who won’t turn to anti-social activities like crime. * The real … Continue reading
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Williams College cancels “Uncomfortable Learning” talk by controversial author John Derbyshire
REPORT: WILLIAMSTOWN — The president of Williams College has ordered the cancellation of a student-organized speaking engagement by an author characterized by many as a white supremacist. In a letter to the college community on Thursday, Adam Falk said the … Continue reading
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