President Joe Biden visited North Carolina’s Fort Liberty last Friday, the largest military base, not only in the nation, but in the world. He spoke with troops only a week after the base had its name changed from Fort Bragg, which had been a controversial name because Braxton Bragg had been a Confederate general and...
There is widespread concern about free speech in higher education. A local remedy is UNC’s School of Civic Life and Leadership initiative, a way to stimulate free inquiry without firing indoctrinated faculty. But how did this censorious academic environment arise in the first place? By now everyone has heard of the fracas at Stanford Law...
If nothing else, the headline surely caught your eye. What is surely to disappoint is its meaning. Here is perhaps one of the longest words in the English language and possibly one of the hardest to pronounce. And yet it’s meaning is onomatopoeic. The word refers to participating in an act or habit that is worthless. ...
Julien Benda’s classic work, “Treason of the Intellectuals,” appeared on the scene in 1927 but now speaks presciently to those of us living a century later. Benda complained that intellectuals, theretofore neutral on issues of politics when speaking ex-cathedra, began favoring one side over the other and being led to embrace only those truths allowed by their...
Attempting to reason with much of the left today is a fruitless effort. You can’t reason with anti-reason.
While many will discuss the economic prevalence of socialist ideas among the youth of our society, the socialist grip on our culture is perhaps neglected. Socialism manifests in various ways in our everyday lives, even when we’re not talking about the economy. The upcoming generation of mothers, fathers, coworkers, neighbors, and leaders is alarmingly marked...
I’d like to address the “woke” movement, or whatever people are calling it. I’m not speaking of racism, or sexism, or gender inequality. Those are significant issues that should — and must — be addressed, though separately, critically, and exclusively. I’m speaking, rather, of this oncoming crazy train, its boxcars and tenders overfilled with ideas...
Last summer, Google fired a software engineer named James Damore for posting a controversial memo on an in-house message board. This week, Damore and another former Google employee filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of themselves and “all Google employees discriminated against … due to their perceived conservative political views … their male gender …...
The tendency among the Left to silence and discredit those who disagree with the modern liberal world view inspired this excellent, good-humored book.
Kirsten Powers makes a strong case that the illiberal left has abandoned debate and put in its place vilification of those who don't toe the PC line.
Readers will get the feeling that Lani Guinier dislikes not only the SAT but also other standardized tests, and she clearly is uncomfortable with the whole idea of individual merit.
