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Category Archives: Academia
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
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
Steve Sailer: Mao-Maoing at Missouri
From Steve Sailer: From the New York Times: After Racist Episodes, Blunt Discussions on Campus By JOHN ELIGON FEB. 3, 2016 385 COMMENTS Scott N. Brooks, draped in a dapper shawl-collar sweater, looked out on the auditorium of mostly white … Continue reading
Judge: Jackie Coakley not covered by patient-counselor privilege in ‘Rolling Stone’ defamation suit
The College Fix: Jackie Coakley can’t hide her secrets any longer. The student at the heart of Rolling Stone‘s discredited gang-rape story has been ordered by a federal judge to turn over her communications with the magazine and author Sabrina … Continue reading
Salon: Was planning a march against violence against women an inherently racist undertaking?
From 1999: There is one person on the planet whom I can honestly say I hate. This in spite of two and a half years of lovingkindness meditation. I’m not talking about the profound yet somehow abstract hatred you feel … Continue reading
Marrying Your Way Up The Academic Ladder
BLOG: I read with great interest in today’s Careerist column about Harvard Law School granting tenure to Professor Jeannie Suk. Vivia Chen stated that she was surprised to learn that Professor Suk was the first Asian-American woman granted tenure at … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: Harvard Law Professor: Majority of Men Accused of Campus Rape Are Minority
Steve Sailer writes: But in passing in a New Yorker article, Harvard Law School criminal law professor Jeannie Suk drops a bombshell: on average, male students accused of sexual assault look less like Haven Monahan than like, say, Heisman Trophy-winner … Continue reading
Campus Protesters Match the Symptom List for Behavioral Disorders
LINK: This video illustrates how the thinking described by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff in The Coddling of the American Mind can manifest in real life: This is not an isolated incident. The mindset of “vindictive protectiveness” is taking over … Continue reading