{"id":113812,"date":"2017-04-26T03:31:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T11:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=113812"},"modified":"2017-04-26T03:31:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T11:31:42","slug":"more-hysterics-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=113812","title":{"rendered":"More Hysterics on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/more_hysterics_on_campus_steve_sailer\/print#ixzz4fLDWhx9b\">Steve Sailer writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Lately, American higher education is notoriously prone to tantrums. Two more academic meltdowns last week raise connected questions:<\/p>\n<p>First, are scholars allowed to suggest any explanation for racial disparities other than that White People Are Bad?<\/p>\n<p>Second, if they can\u2019t say anything heretical or interesting, do we really need white scholars anymore, or can they be replaced by Professors of Color?<\/p>\n<p>The American Historical Review, perhaps the top academic journal in its field, got itself in all sorts of trouble for assigning the review of an academic book about the failure of school desegregation in Nashville to a historian who actually has thought long and hard about the subject of why busing hasn\u2019t worked as hoped anywhere or anytime. Raymond Wolters has been a professor of history at the U. of Delaware for the past 52 years. But that means he can actually remember the past\u2014a dangerous capability, as Orwell noted in 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Sailer writes: Lately, American higher education is notoriously prone to tantrums. Two more academic meltdowns last week raise connected questions: First, are scholars allowed to suggest any explanation for racial disparities other than that White People Are Bad? 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