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February 25, 2021

More Diversity? Talk is Cheap

Noah Carl

White academics who sign petitions and otherwise advocate for more “diversity” can do something that would immediately transform unrepresentative campuses: resign.

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February 25, 2021

The Few, the Proud, the Profs

Mark Bauerlein

For an academic field so self-consciously preoccupied with intelligence, the humanities don’t seem to be run very intelligently. Humanities fields now account for only around five percent o......

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July 2, 2020

Truth in American Academe

Michael Platt

Where in the world did the idea that students are qualified to evaluate their teachers, and that this would be good for their education, come from?

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April 27, 2009

Closed Eyes

Glenn Ricketts

This article, a review of the book Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities, appeared in the spring 2009 issue of Academic Questions (volume 22, number 2).

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