Editor’s note: The following article was originally published at Legal Insurrection on August 8, 2021. On July 29, 2021, I gave a presentation on “Fighting Smart Against Critical Race Theory … Continue reading “The Fight over Critical Race Theory in Education: A Fight for Our National Survival”
Law schools in the U.S. used to be run by no-nonsense individuals who, whatever their personal politics, thought that their institutions existed to teach students about the law, not to … Continue reading “Progressivism Surges Through America’s Law Schools”
State legislatures are taking up higher education reform. Sometimes higher education reform consists of attempts to regulate what happens on college campuses, such as laws that prohibit universities from requiring … Continue reading “Academic Freedom Doesn’t Shield Universities From Oversight”
Florida is now one of several states that have legislated against teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the classroom. In a new move to tackle CRT in campuses and promote … Continue reading “Did You Know? State Laws Against Critical Race Theory”
It is hard to fathom the extent to which American colleges and universities have been taken over by Critical Theory, race-based or not. One good indication is that French and … Continue reading “Sensitivity by Proxy”
To the editor: I appreciated George Leef’s article, and the law journal article by Cantu and Jussim that it reviewed. I recently learned, for example, that whites apparently have a … Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Eradicating microaggressions will not eliminate racism”
(Editor’s note: this article was updated on August 25, 2021, to provide additional information and clarification about the microaggressions research done by Monnica Williams, Ph.D.) The need to combat “microaggressions” … Continue reading “How ‘Experts’ Abused Science to Saddle America with the Microaggression Mania”
To the editor: As per Morson & Schapiro, there is, evidently Good Fundamentalism (which soothes their own kicky blankets) and Bad Fundamentalism (which roils them). Unsurprisingly they find the Bad … Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: The dangers of a fundamentalist mindset”
Michelle Goldberg complains in the pages of The New York Times about how it is the left wing that is currently a victim of cancel culture—thanks to the right, which is trying … Continue reading “The Backlash to Critical Race Theory Is on The Way”
Colleges and universities used to proclaim that their mission was to give students a broad education that would expand their intellectual vistas—one that would open their minds. Most still say … Continue reading “Higher Education Is Shutting Student Minds”