Earlier today we called your attention to Columbia University history professor Christopher Brown’s call for the resignation of president Minouche Shafik. He is not alone. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is also calling for Shafik’s resignation, albeit for very […]
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Columbia history professor Christopher Brown says the NYPD does not belong on campus
Christopher Brown, the esteemed historian of slavery and abolition at Columbia University, recently spoke, draped in his Oxford University gown, at a rally in support of the student protesters on campus. He also said Columbia president Minouche Shafik should be […]
Reactionary protesters and Harvard bigotry
This week’s reactionary protests at Harvard and Columbia have a long, ignoble history.
New antisemitism: “A Hatred Immune to Education”
When it comes to antisemitism in America, it’s out with the old, in with the new.
Columbia University’s Jewish professors reject the weaponization of antisemitism
Earlier today the House Education and the Workforce Committee grilled Columbia University president Nemat Shafik about antisemitism on campus. Some of you may recall what happened the last time the presidents of elite universities testified before Congress. Watch entire hearing […]
Can an authoritarian political regime happen here?
It’s now up to the voters to show the foresight and selflessness necessary to preserve the nation’s democracy.
Ben Sasse: “Harvard, Princeton, and Yale were originally founded as seminaries. They are seminaries once again.”Â
While I probably wouldn’t call early Harvard, Princeton, and Yale “seminaries,” I take Ben Sasse‘s point. As some of you recall, Sasse left the United States Senate earlier this year and became president of the University of Florida. Here is […]
The wretched scum and villainy of higher education
As I write, the pressing controversy in higher education is the uneasy status of three presidents of elite universities, Elizabeth Magill of Penn, Claudine Gay of Harvard, and Sally Kornbluth of MIT. They are in the hotseat due to the […]
The “After Virtue” university
The failure of university presidents to condemn antisemitism on their campuses is an example of the “After Virtue” university in action.
University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill resigns
Here is CBS News: PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Liz Magill and Scott Bok, two top leaders at the University of Pennsylvania, resigned Saturday after days of criticism and pressure from donors, alumni and Jewish community members following Magill’s comments in a Congressional hearing on campus […]
Elise Stefanik “knows better”
Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post thinks New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik was “on target” in her grilling of three university presidents (Harvard, Penn, MIT) this week. But I found the first three sentences of Rubin’s piece the most telling: […]
Six members of Congress from Pennsylvania call for the University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill to resign
They are all Republicans. Here is Nick Robertson at The Hill: A group of six Pennsylvania Republicans called on the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) to fire its president, Liz Magill, following backlash against comments she made at a House committee hearing […]
The elite university presidents who testified before Congress are taking the heat
I have yet to watch the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn testify before Congress on the matter of campus antisemitism. But it does not look very good. This clip is pretty damning: The blowback has been strong and bipartisan. […]
The Author’s Corner with James M. Thomas
James M. Thomas is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. This interview is based on his new book, The Souls of Jewish Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line (University of […]
Who is Donald Trump’s white supremacist dinner guest?
His name is Nick Fuentes. Here is Maggie Haberman and Alan Feuer at the The New York Times: Former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday night had dinner with Nick Fuentes, an outspoken antisemite and racist who is one of […]