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University of Wisconsin Could Hire More Staff to Deal with Hate and Bias Responses

From Campus Reform: According to The Daily Cardinal, students, faculty, and staff from UW schools recently attended a Hate/Bias Response Symposium at the system’s flagship Madison campus to discuss solutions such as expanding the network of staff responsible for responding to bias incidents and identifying best practices and legal limitations for those employees. Earlier this year, […]

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Electoral College is a White Privilege Institution, Boston College Professor Alleged
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Electoral College is a White Privilege Institution, Boston College Professor Alleged

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 the election of 2016,” professor Janet Helms of BC’s Lynch School of Education argues in an article posted on the school’s […]

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Another Election Winner: Academic Who Called It
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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 man for whom Camp David was named was confident in April of last year that the Donald could win. Professor […]

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‘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 contemporary anti-Jewish conduct and will assist the Department of Education in determining whether an investigation of anti-Semitism under title VI […]

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‘Heteropatriarchy’ is a Phrase Used in Academia
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‘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 professors from around the world gather to see and hear previews of the latest courses and “studies” that proliferate in […]

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Top Ten Articles on Black Lives Matter
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Top Ten Articles on Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter made headlines in 2016, with academics, college administrators and college students taking up this banner of anti-police and anti-white privilege on their own college campuses. Here are ten articles from this year on how Black Lives Matter rhetoric made headway at college campuses: High School and George Washington University students held anti-Trump […]

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Obama’s “Evidence” Against Russia Falls Flat

The Democrats have been saying that there’s proof that the Russians hacked into Democratic Party computers for the purpose of obtaining and planting information that would help elect Donald J. Trump as president. But the proof wasn’t provided when President Obama issued an executive order and announced the expulsions of Russians from the U.S., and […]

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Obama’s Indifference to White “Deaths of Despair”

A Soros-funded faux Catholic group called Faith in Public Life is holding what it calls a “special briefing” on “Faithful Resistance to Rising White Nationalism,” featuring Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). This exercise is designed to further demonize white Americans who are waking up to what President Obama has done to […]

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The CIA-Media-Academia Axis
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The CIA-Media-Academia Axis

As controversy swirled around President-elect Donald J. Trump’s battle with the CIA concerning its questionable intelligence product on Russian hacking, a strong defense of the agency and an attack on Trump came from Joshua Rovner of Southern Methodist University (SMU). Professor Rovner declared in a press release, “By ignoring intelligence, Trump risks policy tunnel vision.” […]

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Cornell Investigating Incident where College Republican Student was Shoved to the Ground

From The Ithaca Voice (NSFW, beware of language): Cornell University is investigating a report that the president of Cornell Republicans was attacked just after Donald Trump’s election. The evening after the election, sophomore Olivia Corn, president of Cornell University College Republicans, said she was shoved to the ground while leaving a meeting and heading to her dorm room. “Out […]

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Abandoning Defensive Crouch Conservative Constitutionalism

Randy Barnett of Georgetown Law wrote a great piece on conservatives going full-throttle, with Constitution in hand, under the Trump administration: Yes, despite current complaints about supposed Republican obstruction of Obama administration judicial appointees, Hans von Spakovsky reports that “President Barack Obama has actually had almost the same number of district, appellate, and Supreme Court […]

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