Published on The Federalist Although the fight against anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry must be nonpartisan, my attempt to draw attention to left-wing anti-Semitism triggered a depressingly partisan response. I was labeled a “liberal” by self-avowed anti-Semites and an “anti-Semite,” among other hateful terms, by self-avowed liberals. Clearly, many readers weren’t willing to seriously grapple…
Category: Education
Love Thy Out-of-State Student [NRO] It's anti-conservative — and anti-prosperity — to insist that public colleges and universities reserve spots for in-state applicants.
Published on National Review Online ‘Tis the season. Millions of starry-eyed teenagers from all over the country are beginning the four-year (hopefully), alcohol-and-ramen-infused odyssey of grasping that the American diploma ain’t that remarkable. On that uplifting note, let’s chat for a couple of minutes about the Ivory Tower. So I enjoy dropping into local Democratic…
Review: “Locus of Authority,” by William G. Bowen and Eugene M. Tobin [KEY REPORTER] The function of academic faculty has evolved due to a myriad of social, cultural, and economic tribulations.
Published on The Key Reporter In early-February, Governor Scott Walker unveiled his state’s 2015-17 executive budget of which the most divisive element has been a $300 million cut to the 26-campus University of Wisconsin system. (Typical with any landmark political issue, numbers have become the pliable playthings of polemicists and pundits. The right-leaning insist that $300…
Conservatives are Wrong About Academia [DETROIT NEWS] The right-leaning simply aren't interested in teaching as a career.
Published in The Detroit News At the Michigan Republican Party’s state convention on August 23, I was struck that Common Core garnered far more attention than any other social issue like abortion, gay marriage or gun rights. One candidate for regent of the University of Michigan was rewarded with rapturous applause after he slammed the…
Jesse Jackson’s Futile Feud With Oxbridge [NRO] For the better part of the past millennium, two of the world's best universities have thrived without affirmative action.
Published on National Review Online The 2013 film Admission is a comedy-drama about the professional and romantic trials of Portia Nathan (Tina Fey), an intrepid Princeton University admissions officer. At one point in the movie, Helen (Sonya Walger), an Englishwoman and eminent Virginia Woolf scholar from the University of Cambridge, takes a dig at Portia:…
Tempering the Conservative Outrage at Michigan State [WEEKLY STANDARD] Let radical professors hang themselves with their own rope.
Published on The Weekly Standard Hardly an academic semester goes by without a high-profile opportunity arising for the right to address pervasive, perennial anti-conservative animus on the American college campus. And hardly an academic semester goes by without the right, reflexively blinded by righteous indignation, blowing an opportunity to do so. Too often, conservatives, in a…