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Tuesday, December 12th 2023
The Treason of the Intellectuals: Nial Ferguson, The Free Press, Dec. 11, 2023 If a University President Is Dreadful, Fire Him/Her/They/Ze/It: Charles Lipson, Real Clear Politics, Dec. 11, 2023 How Rich Alumni Ousted Penn’s President Liz Magill: Melissa Korn, Rachel Louise Ensign and Douglas Belkin, WSJ, Dec. 11, 2023 It’s Time for Congress to Open Harvard’s Books: Adam Andrzejewski. Tablet, Dec. […]
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Nial Ferguson The Free Press, Dec. 11, 2023 “But the reason Claudine Gay’s carefully phrased answers on Tuesday infuriated her critics is not that they were technically incorrect, but that they were so clearly at odds with her record—specifically her record as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the years 2018–2022, when […]
Charles Lipson Real Clear Politics, Dec. 11, 2023 “They are the ones who demean all Israelis as “settler colonialists” who have no right to live there. They are the ones who call the generous donors of buildings, professorships, and student scholarships “exploitative capitalists,” hardly better than slave owners. And so on.” Chicken Little was […]
Melissa Korn, Rachel Louise Ensign and Douglas Belkin WSJ, Dec. 11, 2023 “The beginning of the end for Magill came this summer, when advertisements went out for the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, billed as a celebration of Palestinian writers and artists and set to take place on Penn’s campus with backing from some Penn programs.” […]
Adam Andrzejewski Tablet, Dec. 10, 2023 “It seems these schools are more federal contractors than educators—with federal payments exceeding undergraduate student tuition.” In their congressional testimony last week, the presidents of Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania refused to denounce terrorism or explain whether calls for the genocide of Jews represent […]
Monday, December 11th 2023
ENOUGH BLAME TO GO AROUND Why University Presidents are Under Fire: Fareed Zakaria, CNN, Dec. 10, 2023 — When one thinks of America’s greatest strengths, the kind of assets the world looks at with admiration and envy, America’s elite universities would have long been at the top of that list. But the American public has been losing faith in these universities – and […]
Monday, December 11th 2023 / Sunday, December 10th 2023
Emily Jashinsky The Federalist, Dec. 7, 2023 “… if Ackman and Larry Summers and the many left-of-center voices who’ve rightfully expressed grave concerns since Oct. 7 are serious about solving the problem, they may need to take stock of their own values.” Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman weighed in on the question of campus antisemitism […]
Editorial Board Chicago Tribune Yahoo News, Dec. 7, 2023 “Even those sympathetic to the presidents Tuesday knew in their heart of hearts that these elite campuses had not protected free speech in recent years so much as safeguarded progressive speech that they liked for their own ideological reasons, often using “safety” as a cover.” On Tuesday, Elise […]
Heather MacDonald WSJ, Dec. 6, 2023 “The real issue on campuses isn’t antisemitism but the anti-Western ethos that has colonized large swaths of the curriculum.” Tuesday’s House hearing on campus antisemitism ratcheted up the pressure on American universities: counter the anti-Israel vitriol that exploded in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack or risk losing philanthropic […]
Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics, Dec. 8, 2023 “Huge numbers of students have entered universities, who would not have been admitted by the very standards universities until recently claimed were vital to ensure their own competitiveness and prestige. Consequently, they are no longer the guarantors of topflight undergraduates and professionals from their graduate programs.” […]
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