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Category Archives: Academia
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
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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
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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
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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
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White Student Unions
Radix Journal: Nathan Damigo of The Nameless Organization joins Richard Spencer to discuss the White Student Union phenomenon. National Youth Front (NYF) at Rutgers NYF in USA Today NYF in Boston Magazine The Dispossed Temp Blog The Dispossessed Majority, by … Continue reading
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Why “Mismatch” is Relevant in Fisher v. Texas
Richard Sander writes: Affirmative action is before the Supreme Court again this week, as it rehears arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas. (I’ve discussed the legal issues in Fisher here.) But perhaps the most important question about racial preferences … Continue reading
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Understanding Stupid Political Activism
Robert Weisberg writes: Any sensible person viewing today’s identity-based, tribe-like political activism (think recent incidents at the University of Missouri and Yale among countless others) would conclude that these antics are stupid, foolish, counter-productive, and otherwise ill-conceived or, as the … Continue reading
Why Are These New College Protesters So Thick?
Steve Sailer writes: But they also aren’t really good students, so the ideas articulated by protesters aren’t very intellectually impressive. In contrast, back in the 1960s, campus radicals were heavily Jewish. So the reigning theories, while puerile, were at least … Continue reading