Academic Questions

Summer 2024

Volume 37 Issue 2

June 24, 2024

The Issue at a Glance

Seth Forman

Preview articles in this issue with pieces by Alexander Riley, Gene Fendt, Yuriy V. Karpov, and others.

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June 24, 2024

On Harvard, White Flight, and Service Academies

Letters to the Editor, Volume 37, Issue 2. 

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June 24, 2024

Lost Minds

Peter Wood

Editor's introduction to the Summer 2024 issue.

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June 24, 2024

The Warped Vision of Contemporary Sociology

Alexander Riley

The decline of sociology as an academic discipline has been unfolding in plain sight as ideologues colonize departments and repurpose scholarship in the service of radical political goals. A series of......

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June 24, 2024

Piety, Impiety, and the Business of the University

Gene Fendt

Despite the origins of the university in religious learning, it seems out of bounds these days to ask about the relation of the university to piety. Philosopher Gene Fendt holds that if your instituti......

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June 24, 2024

Elite Universities: Incubators of Leftist Ideology

Yuriy V. Karpov

Through the conveyance of its graduates into influential positions in corporations, state bureaucracies, and the media, elite universities propagate leftist ideas throughout American life.

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June 24, 2024

In Defense of the American Way of Electing Presidents

Alfred G. Cuzán

The Electoral College is a phrase used to describe the process for electing the president by states. Thus, it is an indispensable part of our “republic of states,” protects checks and bala......

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June 24, 2024

Critical Theory vs. “Mostmodernism”

William L. Krayer

By defining knowledge and technology as weapons of privatization, domination, and violence, critical theorists seem intent on depriving mankind the benefits of self-interested innovation. In fact, con......

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June 24, 2024

The Bi-Racial Moment in Post-Bellum Virginia: The Readjuster Party

Richard F. Welch

While you wouldn’t know it from reading the 1619 Project and most U.S. historians, there have been historical occasions in which whites and blacks sought to form coalitions and work for change.......

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June 24, 2024

Shakespeare’s Caliban

Gorman Beauchamp

Shakespeare’s play The Tempest has become a tool for activists of the current political zeitgeist. The purveyors of anti-colonialist ideology have reoriented the play, with alterations......

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June 24, 2024

The Woke Effect

Mark Bauerlein

Mark Bauerlein dissects the attempts of two celebrated conservative authors to trace the origins and implications of the “woke” revolution. Bauerlein concludes that the insights provided b......

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June 24, 2024

The Decline and Fall of Two American Institutions

William L. Howard

Two books by well-known pundits analyze the descent of two American institutions widely believed to be responsible for the rapid and radical deformation of American culture: the Democrat Party and hig......

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June 24, 2024

Social Justice?

Donald T. Williams

Here are four good reasons the term “social justice” ought to be banned from our vocabulary and never heard again.

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June 24, 2024

The Illusion of Institutional Neutrality

Peter Wood

The necessity for colleges and universities to vigorously espouse the substantive ideals of truth, liberty, and citizenship makes institutional neutrality untenable in higher education. For this and s......

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June 24, 2024

Statement of Commitment to Academic Freedom and to Intellectual Merit

Daniel B. Klein

Members of the economics department at George Mason University have issued a “Statement of Commitment to Academic Freedom and to Intellectual Merit.” Daniel Klein, a professor and co-autho......

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June 24, 2024

Recalling the 1960s

Edward S. Shapiro

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd’s Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America, writes historian Edward S. Shapiro, is a prime example of “usable past”......

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