“The University of Wisconsin-Madison will reintroduce a class this spring that teaches students why being white is a bad thing.”
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Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind, offers insights on current state of political discourse and its impact on the American university and the country at large.
“Education is not a question of “rights” to be imposed by the state, but of the “freedom” of parents to choose the sort of education that they believe is best for their children…”
Along with rising anti-semitic attacks against Jewish citizenry, Swedish Jews are finding their educational outlets threatened by increasingly aggressive secular forces.
The Columbia University College Republicans were mocked and berated as Nazis and racists during a bi-annual “comedy” sketch.
Leaders of top institutions acknowledge that perceptions of elitism have hurt their brand.
Instead of embracing Americans’ common humanity, campus radicals seek to divide us.
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College students are unhappy. Given the unrest over the past semester across many college and university campuses around the country, such a statement should surprise no one.
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