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I was disinvited from a college debate on the campus of the State University of New York in New Paltz last March. Left-wing professors didn’t want to hear me debate a left-winger on media coverage of the elections. It was the first time in academic history, to my knowledge, that an actual debate was cancelled […]

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, which is not a beacon of conservative politics or policies in higher education: At a rally in Columbus, Ohio, the Republican nominee ventured into what was for him uncharted territory, proposing the simplification of income-based repayment plans, decrying burdensome government regulations and their effect on college costs, and ripping […]

The “best and the brightest” in academe have been trying to unravel the Trump phenomenon for about as long as this election season has run. Martin Kich of Wright State University devotes about three blogs a week to the subject on the academe blog maintained by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Here’s a […]

From the Daily Caller: Public universities across the nation are beginning to unjustly confine student’s right to free speech and open discussion to specific “free speech zones.” Earlier this week, Arkansas Tech students Skyler Bowden and Jason Hammons were confronted by campus police while encouraging fellow students to sign a ‘Free Speech Ball’ promoting Young […]

Well, that sounds a bit unfair, no? Donald Trump and his supporters are accustomed to being derided as racists, but one Harvard University professor has taken things a step further, calling Trump a “predator” in the mold of a Spanish conquistador. “I see Donald Trump as an example of a predator in the way he […]

A teacher at North Carolina’s Cedar Ridge High School was accused of comparing Donald Trump’s speeches to Adolf Hitler’s: Instead of parsing participles, a public high school English teacher has been using her classroom to wage an ugly propaganda campaign against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his supporters. “Basically, the only people who seem […]

At the Values Voters Summit, held by the Family Research Council Action arm, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke about school choice and homeschooling and how they work together. His remarks are at the seventeen-minute mark: https://youtu.be/Hz8jSguklFo

Oh, hitting a Trump piñata filled with notes of racist incidents on campus sounds very reasonable and tolerant *sarcasm*: A group of students at Texas A&M is pushing for a mandatory “Racial Justice” class, citing the “historical racism” of their university as the reason such a class is necessary. Emilio Bernal, a member of TAMU Anti-Racism, […]

Looks like College Republicans at Cal-Berkeley are being singled out by anti-Trump college students who don’t appreciate free speech. Protesters then ripped the Trump cutout after telling the College Republicans that they “couldn’t have that [Trump cutout] here; it represents hate,” and that they “don’t understand how any Latino could vote for Trump; he will […]

It’s stealing and it is a crime: Boston University student Katia Checkwicz posted — then deleted — a video of herself stealing and destroying a pair of yard signs promoting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. The video appeared on Checkwicz’s Twitter account on Aug. 4, according to Campus Reform. “ICYMI: I ripped out two Trump […]

Donald Trump doesn’t have to worry about his video testimony becoming public record in a Trump University lawsuit case, but he didn’t get the case dismissed, either.

This from Campus Reform: Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe believes that Donald Trump’s recent comments regarding the DNC e-mail leak and a possible Russian connection may “constitute treason.” Trump came under fire this week after appearing to suggest that Russia find and publish Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails which she had deleted from her […]