The Chicoms on the World State

A review of "Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World," Clive Hamilton, Mareike Ohlberg, One World Publications, 2020, pp. 418, $17.41 hardbound.

How Not to Save the University

A review of Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalism Divides Us," Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro, Princeton University Press, 202, pp. 289, $28.00 hardcover.

The Art of Teaching and the End of Wokeness

Adam Ellwanger believes that the left conquered K-12 education by focusing on teaching technique and style, while traditionalists obsessed over curriculum content.

Academic Racism

The racism we see in America today, the kind that operates under the guise of “anti-racism” and culminates in riots and destruction, was concocted in American universities.

That's Hilarious: The Campus as Comedy

Can something as serious as the assault on liberal education be played for laughs? Political scientist Fred Baumann finds that Scott Johnston’s Campusland and Andrew Pessin’s Nevergreen take different approaches to the campus gloom, with disparate results.

On Dubious Race Preferences

A review of "A Dubious Expediency: How Race Preferences Damage Higher Education," eds. Gail Heriot, Maimon Schwarzschild, Encounter, 2021, pp. 336, $21.68 hardcover.

Dear Mr. Bolotin: I Wish It Were Only That Bad

Social justice ideology has redefined the meaning of “equality” and “freedom,” devastating the study of humanities. The answer? Return, without shame, to the reading of Great Books.

A Response to Ernest Hook

Does the stifling of dissent impede scientific advance? Berkeley public health professor emeritus Ernest Hook and former dean of Virginia Polytechnic Institute Henry Bauer disagree.

Does Diversity Hiring Decrease Ideological Diversity?

Christopher C. Hull asks if diversity-driven hiring is the cause of declining viewpoint diversity in higher education.