From Campus Reform: A Boston College professor contends that Donald Trump’s election victory was predetermined by an electoral system designed to perpetuate “white heterosexual male privilege.” “White heterosexual male privilege (WHMP) fought for and won…
Monthly Archives For January 2017
Another Election Winner: Academic Who Called It
Not everybody made a lousy prediction on this year’s election results. In introducing Penn Professor David Eisenhower at the University Club on January 19, 2017, Hadley Arkes of the James Wilson Center noted that the…
Anti-Trump Protesters Disrupt Classes at Georgetown to Protest Trump
Huh? Why not protest Donald Trump by going to Trump Tower or one of his hotels? Nope, these anti-Trump protesters chose to disrupt classes at Georgetown University.
Georgetown University Tells Students Not to Host Anti-Trump Protesters
From The College Fix: Hosting anti-Donald Trump inauguration protesters is the fad in D.C. this week, and Georgetown University’s College Democrats wanted to get in on the action. Not so fast, the Georgetown administration has told…
At Anti-Trump ‘Teach-in’ at Georgetown University, Liberals Plan Resistance
From The College Fix: The election of Donald Trump must be “understood as a backlash to the Black Lives Matter movement,” Georgetown University History Prof. Marcia Chatelain told a “teach-in” on campus Saturday… The election…
Students, Professors Gearing Up for Anti-Trump Women’s March on Washington
From The College Fix: Take Denison University, a private college in Ohio. Its Laura C. Harris Symposium, a campus series promoting women’s education, is formally sponsoring bus trips to the march in cooperation with its…
‘Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’: Progressive activists try to deflect blame for their own campus anti-Semitism
Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on Times of Israel. In early December, a bipartisan Congressional bill, H.R. 6421/S.10, the “Antisemitism Awareness Act,” took on a long-overdue task, namely, increasing “understanding of the parameters of…
‘Heteropatriarchy’ is a Phrase Used in Academia
One of the many ironies in academe is the degree to which academics invert reality. This tendency is usually on full display at the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention at which thousands of English…
‘Social Justice Week’ held at Central Florida
This isn’t a joke at the University of Central Florida: The University of Central Florida is kicking off 2017 with an entire week devoted to promoting social justice issues like “racial battle fatigue” and protecting…
Georgetown Professor Suggested ‘Individual Reparations Accounts’ for Whites to Pay Blacks for Slavery
From Campus Reform: Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson recently suggested that white people should open up “individual reparations accounts” to literally pay back African Americans for slavery. In an interview with New York Times Magazine,…