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In this uncertain time of global conflict, some professors believe it is time to teach students to reevaluate and deconstruct America’s real enemies—conservatives, science, democracy, and capitalism.

Outgoing American Journalism Center intern Heyecan Veziroglu reviews two movies sure to make the rounds of college campuses and towns.

Academics trying to rewrite the Reagan years may need magicians’ mirrors because the actual data don’t support the spin that these “public scholars” would dearly like to put on the 80s.

Like all of you, we know that personally we have much to be thankful for. Oddly, what we have to be thankful for professionally is the politically correct colleges and universities that supply us with an unending stream of copy.

The next time you hear a journalism student, when asked why he or she wants to get into the profession, say they “want to make a difference,” cringe.

Two veteran professors from both coasts gave Campus Report radio listeners an idea of the chill on free speech of politically correct norms in academia particularly on issues relating in any way to race.

George Washington University has another controversy on its hands with regards to its campus activism. This time, its student body president endorsed a progressive effort to push for more diversity among student activist groups’ leadership ranks, according to The Federalist. Howard Brookins III, the student body president, affirmed that GW’s “passionate and active community of […]

Academics have always prided themselves on elevated discourse, frequently at the expense of the rest of us. Their claims of reaching this exalted state are increasingly, well, out of reach.

Editor’s Note: This op-ed was originally published at The Mercury News. In our nation today, we are witnessing an unprecedented unwillingness to accept, or merely recognize and respect, beliefs or behavior that differ from our own. It is the essence of intolerance, and it has unquestionably skyrocketed, traversing political divides, identities, ethnicities and nationalities. This is particularly […]

This sounds like targeting a specific racial demographic, doesn’t it? Way to go, Ohio State University: The Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University held a “conversation with white students” regarding racism yesterday, aptly titled “Racism 101.” According to The Lantern, the event went pretty much as you’d expect. “While the majority of […]

Way to take a stand, Ohio State University. Photo by Howard TJ

Yet they only have 200 signatures to boot: The Black Student Union at the University of California, Irvine has called for the abolition of the campus police department, calling the very idea of policing “unethical.” “The problem is that policing as an institution is unethical; it accompanies anti-Black violence,” the BSU writes in a Change.org […]