Higher Education Is Broken. Can A New Anti-Woke Start-Up Make A Difference?; Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS, Nov. 12, 2021 — As toxic as Twitter can be, sometimes the orgies of abuse and mockery for which the social media forum is so well-known can tell us something important.
Lessons Learned on the Frontlines Against BDS: Johanna Markind, JNS, Nov. 17, 2021
Universities Deteriorate from the Top on Down: Mitchell Bard, JNS, Nov. 17, 2021
Do Universities Still Care about Truth?: Carine Hajjar, National Review, Oct. 2, 2021
We Can’t Wait for Universities to Fix Themselves. So We’re Starting a New One.: Pano Kanelos, Common Sense with Bari Weiss, Nov. 8, 2021
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Oberlin Giving Haven to Iranian Diplomat (Who Can’t Keep His Story Straight!): Dexter Van Zile, The Times of Israel, Nov. 16, 2021 — In the years after the Holocaust, right-wing Catholic clergy living in the Vatican helped Nazis escape punishment for their crimes against humanity.
Oberlin Accused of Discriminating Against Jews: Powerline, Oct. 1, 2021 — When I attended college in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I viewed Oberlin College as a model for what a radicalized campus should be. After John and I braved a snow storm to visit Oberlin for a debate tournament, my impression was confirmed. Oberlin was in the vanguard.
The Closing of the Durham University Mind; Melanie Phillips, Substack, Dec. 9, 2021 — Truly, the disgraceful events at Durham university over the past week are a parable for our sinister times. Last Friday, the journalist Rod Liddle gave an after-dinner speech at the university’s South College. Liddle is famously anti-woke and doesn’t mince his words.
Introducing the Minding the Campus Lysenko Award: Louis K. Bonham, Minding the Campus, Oct. 28, 2021 — With campus cancel culture now so commonplace and brazen that even leftist publications like The Atlantic are sounding the alarm, we are now inaugurating a new MTC award: The Minding the Campus Trofim Lysenko Award for the Suppression of Academic Speech (a Lysenko Award, for short).
Pro-Israel Campus Group At Duke University Protests Veto Of Club Recognition: JNS, Nov. 19, 2021 — Students Supporting Israel (SSI) said in an open letter that it urges the Duke University Student Government (DSG) to vote against its president, who vetoed a decision to formally recognize the organization.
Princeton Routs Rest of Ivy League in Diversity Sweepstakes: Power Line, Apr. 11, 2021 — Tech Gate USA has compiled a partial breakdown, by race, of the students offered admission by six of the eight Ivy League schools (all Ivies except Yale and Columbia). The breakdown is only partial because, with the exception of Harvard, the data released by the schools differentiate only between Whites and “persons of color” — an interesting fact, in itself.
