However one feels about abortion and transgenderism, it is striking how the debate about them illustrates the ever weirder contortions of language that woke college students have to resort to in their ever expanding campaign to erase the category of just plain womanhood. That erasure and the general bleakness of

Those of us who do not dwell in the halls of the Ivy League tend to assume that when people say things like this: We seek diversity along many dimensions, including discipline, career stage, race and ethnicity, country of origin, gender and sexual orientation, and ideological perspective. they might actually

Kudos to The Daily Emerald, the student-run newspaper of the University of Oregon, for providing us with a damning portrait of the intellectually crippling concept of “trigger warnings.” We are supplied with real-world examples of students who want to be protected from anything unpleasant and professors who, in the name

If you have to invent new lines of work for your graduates to go into, it is time to close up shop as a divinity school. If you have to try to poach students from schools of social work or hope to heaven (not that many people at Yale Divinity

It’s a given that liberal media organs such as National Public Radio and The New York Times regard anything that is not woke as fueled by hatred and fear. It is worth examining the language the left employs against the non-woke, particularly when it comes to parents and public

We have all seen the videos of woke students shouting down conservative speakers and have read about woke professors bullying non-left-wing students. But there is an even more insidious side of wokeness. To wit, classroom-level peer pressure campaigns by woke students to silence anyone who deviates from the radical agenda.

Wokeness is bad enough. Now, we have another sign of moral rot at American universities: rampant notions of entitlement and petty theft among students at elite schools. Witness the April 18, 2022 article in the GW Hatchet, the student newspaper at George Washington University, Students defend coffee-theft trend at University

Oh, let’s just ignore the United States Constitution. Its bothersome protections of free speech are hampering the wokeification of American universities. And we certainly would not want reporters at student-run media outlets to educate themselves about basic matters of free speech law. So much easier to just run an

What is a university for? American society is being presented with a fait accompli by the sexual left the result of which is that colleges are increasingly no longer places of learning and sites of preparation for employment or entrepreneurialism. Rather, under this new regime they are becoming merely venues