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Blowback against critical race theory has spread across the country, where Republican-majority state legislatures have proposed or passed laws banning critical race theory in school classrooms. Now, academics criticize these efforts as heavy-handed, authoritarian, and restrictive of academic free speech. The New York Times reported that “a coalition of more than six dozen scholarly and […]

In an increasingly disturbing trend, the Left and its critical race theory adherents have adopted a no-holds-barred approach to publicly shame and silence their opponents. In the northern Virginia suburbs of Loudoun County, left-wing activists have targeted concerned parents who raise legitimate concerns about critical race theory (known as CRT) in the county’s public schools. […]

Last week, President Joe Biden nominated Catherine Lhamon to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights within the Department of Education. Lhamon held the same position under the Obama Administration during which she launched a full-scale attack against due process protections afforded to college students accused of sexual assault. In 2011, the DOE issued […]

Amid the current environment of racially-charged rhetoric, protests, and riots, George Mason University’s president Gregory Washington announced that he would consider giving minorities a preference in the hiring process. According to Legal Insurrection, Washington sent an e-mail to the university’s faculty members in mid-April,  which noted that diversity should trump other qualifications in applicants. He […]

In the wake of the Atlanta spa shootings, the families of 8 victims, six Asian and two white, were forced to grieve the loss of a child. Despite the absence of evidence indicating that the crime was racially-motivated, Democrats and their aligned media organizations quickly determined that the attack was evidence of the inherent racism […]

Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. As the 2016 Internal Holocaust Remembrance Association’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism continues to be adopted by organizations and universities who find it […]

Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. As evidence of what the late Professor Edward Alexander has called “the explosive power of boredom” in rousing the liberal professoriate to its […]

Last November, North Thurston Public Schools, located east of Olympia, Washington, made headlines when their yearly “equity report” removed Asian students from the “person of color” category. Instead, they were lumped in with whites in a dishonest attempt to emphasize the “persistent opportunity gaps” experienced by minority populations. After intense pushback, the district removed the […]

Social media platforms and technology continue to expand more and more into our daily lives. Billions of people use social media as a source of communication, entertainment, and news. The power these sites have continues to grow at an exponential rate. The Pew Research Center found that 53% of Americans get news from social media […]

While most people would consider topics such as science and math to be essential components of an elementary school education, the principal of East Side Community High in New York City believes students and their parents need to spend more time considering their “white identity.” Last week, Mark Federman, disseminated a “tool for action” asking […]

Among its many left-wing policy actions, the Biden administration dropped a racial discrimination lawsuit against Yale University last month. This action spurred The Students for Fair Admission (SFFA) group to file a complaint that Yale University violated the Civil Rights Act in its admission policies by racially discriminating against Asian-American applicants. Filed in the U.S. […]

The coronavirus pandemic exacerbated many college and university’s biggest threat: students aren’t buying their pitches to pay tens of thousands of dollars a year for an undergraduate degree. The Detroit Free Press profiled Albion College, a small, private liberal arts institution in southern Michigan, and showed how the college is struggling to survive due to […]