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I’m Privileged. Do You Want to Know What I Had for Breakfast? Of Course You Do.
This post began as an essay about “white privilege,” but before I wrote a single word, I realized that my reasoning had changed. Not because the idea of “white privilege” has jumped the shark and is...
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Central Michigan University Professor Issues Trigger Warning
From Central Michigan Life, Central Michigan University’s Premier News Source and Student Voice Since 1919, comes a sobering description of how one professor uses “trigger warnings”: A Central Michigan...
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Ask a Stupid Question…
For scholars in the fields of race and ethnic studies—including those who work outside the ivory tower—dealing with snide questions, nasty comments, and occasional name-calling is just part of the job...
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Get Your Hands Off Me Ersula Ore I’ll Kick You In the Shins
There’s a video making the rounds of a faculty member at Arizona State University, Ersula Ore, who struggles with a police officer as he attempts to handcuff her in the middle of a city street: Since...
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Professor Fah’s Hair-Raising Classroom Antics
Breanne Fahs, associate professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University, is a wunderkind. She breezed through her undergraduate and graduate studies in near-record time (B.A., Women’s...
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Professor Ersula Ore Cops a Plea!
On May 20, 2014, Ersula Ore Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University was nearly hit by a police car when she jaywalked across a street where construction was taking place. The officer...
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Reasons 36 and 37 to Love Collegetown, USA: Michael Brown and a Race-Baiting...
Every year, at this time of year, the following sequence of events occur, usually in the same order: grocery store aisles are rendered impassable by sky-high displays of Ramen Noodle 10-packs....
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It’s True: Black Lives Don’t Matter
“Dear Harvard College students,” writes Dean Rakesh Khurana on December 8, I know that my words cannot begin to express the emotions or claim the lived experiences that so many of us are feeling in...
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More Fun with Microaggression
It’s the first of the year, and everything old is new again. Remember Seinfeld, the show about nothing? The updated version of the Seinfeld conceit, Microaggression, is being serialized on college...
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Sophia Smith Grows a Pair
It’s a sign of our depraved times that when the Smith College board of trustees announced a new admissions policy, the change was not heralded with a bang, not even with a whimper. Although “bang” and...
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The University of Eastern Washington Denies the Truth about Rachel Dolezal
Note to Readers: On June 15 late in the day, Eastern Washington University scrubbed most references to Rachel Dolezal from the website, starting with the faculty bio I write about below. My...
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Inside the Ivory Tower, Where the Wild Things Are
Fess up. Just like me, you’ve been spending lazy summer afternoons pondering the question of the moment: why can’t higher education get no respect? Put another way, why have U.S. college and university...
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Listen Up, Tucker Carlson: Put the Blame for Intellectual Genocide Where it...
Note: An earlier version of this essay appeared on the American Thinker website. Recently sixteen faculty members from three of our most distinguished universities—Harvard, Princeton, and Yale—wrote an...
View ArticleThe Ugly Side of the Elites: Derek Bok Knows What’s Good for You
Former Harvard University President Derek Bok has an essay in today’s Inside Higher Ed that I find disturbing. It’s not that Improving the Quality of Higher Education contains frightening revelations...
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