Academic Questions

Spring 2022

Volume 35 Issue 1

March 18, 2022

Issue at a Glance

Carol Iannone

Read the articles in the Spring 2022 issue of Academic Questions at a glance.

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March 18, 2022

Letters

Carol Iannone

Letters to the Editor, Volume 35, Issue 1.

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March 18, 2022

Editors' Note

Carol Iannone

Editor's note and correction to On Dubious Race Preferences in Volume 34, Issue 4.

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March 18, 2022

Up From the Memory Hole

Carol Iannone

From election to election the left makes clearer its goals to radically transform American society from that of standards based on merit and equity. As that tide continues to roll, AQ continues t......

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March 18, 2022

The Great Inquiry into National Character

Daniel Pipes

At the tail end of humanity’s greatest wars, mid-twentieth-century psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and others set about discovering “national character,......

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March 18, 2022

Be a Man: Lessons from Three Literary Priests

Alexander Riley

Twentieth-century novelists Graham Greene and William Peter Blatty provide portraits of three literary priests possessed of precisely those masculine traits that a vibrant culture needs in abundance,......

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March 18, 2022

Colleges: To Endow or Not to Endow?

George R. La Noue

As colleges and universities undergo rapid institutional change and ideological capture, George R. La Noue believes it is imperative that donors ask three questions before entering into endowment agre......

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March 18, 2022

A Retrospective on Gainful Employment

Andrew Gillen

The set of regulations known as “Gainful Employment” are designed to hold higher education programs accountable for student loan debt by establishing debt-to-income thresholds. Andrew Gill......

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March 18, 2022

The Relevance of Race in Modern Philosophy

Darren Hibbs

Should the racial views of great thinkers from centuries past factor into modern evaluations of their work? Philosophy professor Darren Hibbs addresses this question and suggests a model for how the c......

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March 18, 2022

The "Antiracist" Mental Health Threat That No One Talks About

Stanley K. Ridgley

Despite an explosion of diversity, equity, and inclusion training in higher education, the “antiracist pedagogy” that conveys these ideas to undergraduates amounts to little more than a pr......

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March 18, 2022

The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry: The Feminist Sop for Renaissance Drama

Gorman Beauchamp

Academic feminists go to some pretty strange lengths to ensure that female “writers” are well-represented in the literary canon of the Renaissance. Gorman Beauchamp considers the strange c......

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March 18, 2022

Whither Goest Thou, International Relations?

Sumantra Maitra

Once a narrowly defined, career-oriented discipline designed to train future diplomats in the classic works of history and statesmanship, International Relations has fallen prey to many of the academi......

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March 18, 2022

The Word on "Wilding"

Jeffrey A. Kroessler

Like earlier reference works such as World Book and Collier’s, digital reference works are used by students and researchers seeking accurate and trustworthy information. Unfortunately, databases......

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March 18, 2022

The Case for Colonialism: A Response to My Critics

Bruce Gilley

Political scientist and NAS board member Bruce Gilley’s article “The Case for Colonialism” (republished in Academic Questions in the summer of 2018), has been the subject of countles......

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March 18, 2022

Marxism in America

Glynn Custred

Anthropologist Glynn Custred provides the context for the arrival of two books by big-name conservatives exploring the history of leftist politics in the United States.

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March 18, 2022

Liberal Education and Religion

John Agresto

A review of "The Love of Learning: Seven Dialogues on the Liberal Arts, Margarita Mooney," ed., 2021, Cluny Media, pp. 242, $19.95 paperback.

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March 18, 2022

Suppressing Speech: Worse than McCarthyism

Robert Maranto

A review of "A Book Too Risky to Publish: Free Speech and Universities," by James R. Flynn, Academica Press, 2020, pp. 332, $29.95 paper; $28.45 kindle.

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March 18, 2022

John McWhorter Takes a Mulligan

Seth Forman

A review of "Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America," by John McWhorter, Portfolio/Penguin, 2021, pp. 201, $18.01 hardcover.

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March 18, 2022

The Gold Standard

Edward S. Shapiro

A review of "Michael Gold: The People’s Writer," by Patrick Chura, State University of New York Press, 2020, pp. 354, $95.00 hardcover, $26.95 softcover

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March 18, 2022

British Imperialism, the Better Alternative

Stephen Kershnar

A review of "The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns’s Epic Defense of the British Empire," by Bruce Gilley, 2021, Regnery Gateway, pp. 256, $24.06 hardbound

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March 18, 2022

The Elusive Robert E. Lee

Robert Carle

A review of "Robert E. Lee: A Life," by Allen Guelzo, Knopf, 2021, pp. 624, $35.00 hardcover.

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