Bruce Gilley

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October 19, 2023

We Need Some Muscle Over Here!

Bruce Gilley

At a March 2023 meeting of the NAS affiliate California Association of Scholars, NAS treasurer and board member Brue Gilley assessed the challenges and achievements of both organizations.

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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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February 25, 2021

The Minjung Millenarianism of Bandy X. Lee

Bruce Gilley

In declaring President Trump mentally unfit to hold public office and a “mass killer,” Yale Psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee violated the American Psychiatric Association’s Principles of Me......

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October 31, 2023

The Academic Roots of Hamas's Terror

Bruce Gilley

An intellectual history of Hamas from 1988 to the present. How have major ideologies shaped this terrorist organization, and what is its prevalence on campus?

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July 26, 2023

A Symposium on Legacy Admissions: Bruce Gilley

Bruce Gilley

Long-standing higher ed institutions are obliged to consider past generations as well as current and future ones. Admitting some students based on this fact is imperative, and part of a prec......

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March 5, 2021

Diversity Training, or "How to Throw Fuel on the Fire": An Interview

Bruce Gilley

Professor Gilley describes his thoughts on a Washington legislative bill that would require public institutions of higher education to provide faculty, staff, and students with DEI training.

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