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. When the prescient…
Topic: English language
English Departments in the Ideological Thrall of Identity Politics
In July, the English Department of the University of Chicago posted an odd statement on its website. In response to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the supposed “thousands of others named and…
Concerns about Xenophobia leads to Effort to ‘Decenter English’ as Academic Language
Academics may be pushing to remove English as the lingua franca of academia due to allegedly rising xenophobia.
Michigan Professor: ‘The English language is Sexist’
An English professor at the University of Michigan claimed that “the English language is sexist” in a lecture at Iowa State University.
Yale Students Think English Classes Teach about Too Many White Male Poets
Oh, gender inequality in history! Outrage mob assemble at Yale!