If you spend any time at academic conferences, you realize that their biggest target is not conservatives (and realize they have vanquished), who they barely acknowledge, but “neoliberals.”
Topic: Vanderbilt
The College as Country Club
If universities really want to be taken seriously as sources of scholarship, they might stop imitating Vegas hotels.
Math is Too Masculine, Professor Alleged in Journal Article
Mathematics is too masculine, said a professor at Vanderbilt in a journal article.
Professors Sticking Together in Trump’s America
At the Modern Language Association, one panel of professors discussed a thirty-year-old book and one professor encouraged the Left to stick together in a post-Donald Trump America. Christopher Castiglia, a Penn State professor specializing in…
Vanderbilt Paid Confederate Group $1.2 Million to Remove Name from Memorial Hall
That’s a lot of money for a name, isn’t it? Vanderbilt is so incensed by the 83-year-old inscription on a campus building that it paid more than a million dollars to get rid of it….
Fisher v. Texas, Take Two
At the Heritage Foundation on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, two law professors gave a preview of the second Fisher v. Texas decision, which was again before the U.S. Supreme Court. Vanderbilt Law’s own James…
Tolerance: Now UC It, Now You Don’t
America’s universities used to care about critical thinking. Now they’re just critical — toward conservative thinking. Last week, we talked about Carol Swain, the African-American professor under fire for suggesting that radical Islam was a…
Swain’s World
Universities are supposed to be a place to exchange ideas — not silence them. Tell that to Vanderbilt, where a hypersensitive student body is demanding the head of a conservative black professor for daring to…
Prof. Carol Swain faces Opposition for Her Personal Views, Not Supported by Vanderbilt
College Fix reported: An LGBT student activist was so incensed by a controversial professor at Vanderbilt University that he threatened to ruin her if she didn’t censor her own political opinions outside of class. Law…