Seeming to give credence to Orwell’s wry observation that “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” the fatuous members of the Virginia Tech Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS)…
Topic: academic boycott
Wow: MLA Rejected Anti-Israel BDS Boycott
A resolution to boycott Israel was rejected by the Modern Language Association, which has resisted such efforts in the recent past.
MLA-BDS Aftermath: A Star Is Born
Just as political careers are often launched from electoral defeats, so too do academic careers blossom when Left wing movements fail. Examples of the former abound, from Ronald Reagan’s rise in the wake of the…
University of Chicago Students Ask for Divestment from China
Why not divest from China, if some academics are pushing to divest from Israel?
Counter-BDS Movement Has a Good Month
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on the Louis B. Brandeis Center website. Last week the British government issued guidance banning local government and public sector Boycott Divestment and Sanction (BDS) actions toward any country…
Israeli War Academic Front
A professor actually lost out on an academic job due to his anti-Israeli musings. Beware, the following tweet is NSFW (or “not safe for work”) due to profanity. “This month, my campus, the University of…
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Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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