Category Archives: Academia

The end of Baylor’s Art Briles

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Luke Ford

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 →

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Hard Truths About Race on Campus

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Luke Ford

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 →

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Will Larry Summers Take the High Road or the Low Road in Fighting Political Correctness?

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Luke Ford

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

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Luke Ford

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

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Luke Ford

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 →

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