By Sarah Imgrund – Liberty University Attempts to sanction scholars for their speech, research or teaching practices has skyrocketed since 2015, with about three in four campaigns leading to some form of professional sanction — including termination — according to a new report by the Foundation for Individual […]
Katie Halper recounts her time with belated actor Michael K. Williams and details the advocacy he cared most about.
Robby Soave makes the case against in-school mask mandates.
By Jack Phillips Epoch Times Portland State University professor Peter Boghossian said he’s resigned from his position in an open letter and accused the college administration of creating an environment that imperils dissent. “I never once believed—nor do I now—that the purpose of instruction was to lead my […]
The principal dividing line in the “culture wars” is between the college-educated and non-college-educated, rather than class, race, gender, or religion. By Nate Cohn, New York Times The front lines of America’s cultural clashes have shifted in recent years. A vigorous wave of progressive activism has helped push […]
Saagar and Marshall respond to a surprising new report showing that young men have abandoned college in the wake of the covid pandemic.
Zaid Jilani breaks down how elite private universities are like the alcohol and tobacco industries, and why they should face taxes on their endowments.
Team Rising discusses news that the Department of Education has opened investigations into five states with bans on in-school mask mandates.
Krystal and Saagar debate whether masks should be banned in schools or not following a push by the DOE to prevent states from overruling local governments and banning masks
By GQ Pan Epoch Times Students at Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University will be fined up to $2,275 and lose internet access if they fail to comply with the university’s COVID-19 vaccination policies. The private liberal arts college in New Haven County announced the new penalties on Aug. 16 in […]
David Dayen, executive director of The American Prospect, discusses the extension of the moratorium on federal student loan payments and debates whether or not the Biden administration will push to cancel student debt altogether.
Team Rising debates who should pay for college education.
By Shahzada Rahim Reviewing the book “Beyond the Boundaries: C.R.L James and Post-National Studies” by Christopher Gair The beginning of 1960s marked the rise of the American Studies as a subject in the academia. The whole discourse of the American Studies was established based upon the metanarrative of […]
Instead of paying to move the rock they should’ve just let Hunter Biden smoke it.
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen react to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis banning masks mandates for schools across the state.
Kim Iversen breaks down a new McKinsey and Company study on the impacts of school closures on kids.
Krystal and guest host Kyle Kulinski expose the lies told by Democrats about student debt forgiveness.
This is a panel discussion conducted for state legislators in New Hampshire to help them understand critical race theory.
Kim Iversen discusses the failure of Democrats to push student debt forgiveness.
Briahna Joy Gray, host of Bad Faith podcast, discusses the likelihood of President Biden extending the student loan moratorium.
By The Center Square Epoch Times A Sartell-St. Stephen School District student is speaking out after the school required grade-school children to take an equity survey. Some students didn’t understand some of the surveys questions, but were told by a teacher they couldn’t repeat the survey questions to […]
By Peter Weber, The Week The U.S. is seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the Delta variant. Just how dangerous is it? Here’s everything you need to know. What is the Delta variant? The Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 — the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 — was first […]
By Matt Taibbi Universities built palaces and financiers made fortunes in part through a lie: that student loans can’t be discharged in bankruptcy. But a series of court cases is helping unravel the scam. Stefanie Gray explains why, as a teenager, she was so anxious to leave her […]
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss Sen. Lindsey Graham’s self-proclaimed war in defense of Chick-fil-A
Emily Jashinsky reacts to President Biden’s nomination of Catherine Lhamon to Department of Education.
Team Rising weighs in on Texas Senate Bill 3 and the coverage it has received.
Kenny Xu, president of Color Us United, discusses his new book, “An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy.”
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including the assimilation of Indigenous students in Indian boarding schools, President Joe Biden’s budget plan, the child tax credit, and the latest reported in books on the […]
This is a great interview with McWhorter, and one of the best discussions I have seen on these topics. He gives the answers I would be inclined to give to the interviewer’s questions. PBS, Firing Line Columbia University linguist and race commentator John McWhorter explains the origins of […]
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss Cornel West’s resignation from Harvard University.
“I have never let schooling interfere with my education”. -Mark Twain
Joe Sanberg, progressive entrepreneur, discusses where President Biden stands on his campaign promise of canceling student debt.
A problem that I see with this article is that what the authors (one of whom I know personally) are describing is not so much critical race theory specifically as much as contemporary “anti-racism” ideology generally (and related concepts like privilege theory, intersectionality, “whiteness,” etc.), and the illiberalism […]
By Kalle Benallie, Indian Country Today The U.S. Department of Interior will formally investigate the impact of federal Indian boarding schools, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced before tribal leaders on Tuesday. The new “Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative” will result in a detailed report compiled by the Interior […]
By Marcella Corona Reno Gazette-Journal RENO, Nev. – The Stewart Indian School in Carson City may come under federal review following U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s announcement that the government will investigate its past oversight of Native American boarding schools. Last month, Haaland, who is a member of […]
Host of Bad Faith podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, explains the Nikole Hannah-Jones / Howard University controversy.
The Economist TEN YEARS ago Peter Turchin, a scientist at the University of Connecticut, made a startling prediction in Nature. “The next decade is likely to be a period of growing instability in the United States and western Europe,” he asserted, pointing in part to the “overproduction of […]
If she thinks he is innocent (which seems highly doubtful) she ought to be able to say so. By Lydia O’Connor, Yahoo News Former “Cosby Show” star Phylicia Rashad sent a letter to Howard University students Friday apologizing for celebrating Bill Cosby’s overturned sexual assault conviction, but the […]
On The Jacobin Show, Jen Pan and Paul Prescod discuss how the shortcomings of the popular text “White Supremacy Culture” by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun have permeated society and led to some reactionary, culturally essentialist ideas.
By Dr. Michael Robillard “Universities are madrassas for woke stupidity.” -James Delingpole When I first encountered the discipline of Philosophy as an undergraduate at West Point some twenty years ago, I was put into a state of awe. Encountering the ideas of Plato and Aristotle, Kant and Hume, […]
A pretty good discussion of why totalitarian humanism and its derivatives are dangerous. Right now, US political culture faces three primary authoritarian dangers. The most immediate is the consolidation of a totalitarian humanist regime by the Center, and the use of inherited anti-crime and anti-terrorism laws to repress […]
Colin Rogero and Robby Soave react to Sen. Marco Rubio’s new student debt proposal.
Colin Rogero and Robby Soave react to the announcement that VP Kamala Harris will visit the southern border on Friday.
Krystal and Saagar go over the latest Supreme Court rulings against workers and for free speech.
Pigs vs. Republicans. Awesome. Loudon County and other NOVA counties are the Thousand Oaks of the East Coast, the most bourgie places in the USA.
A relatively nuanced discussion of this topic from a generally “liberal” perspective. By Stephen Sawchuck, Education Week Is “critical race theory” a way of understanding how American racism has shaped public policy, or a divisive discourse that pits people of color against white people? Liberals and conservatives are […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about the potential consequences of the Supreme Court ruling in favor of college athletes.
Here’ my take on this “critical race theory” controversy. “Conservatives” (at least those of the pop-culture variety) have started using “critical race theory” as a label for anything they find ideologically objectionable. The same way they use woke, SJW, politically correct, etc. Actual CRT is something much narrower […]
Senior editor and reporter for The Daily Poster, Andrew Perez, details how state officials in Colorado, New York, and Ohio are holding scholarship lotteries for college student who get their COVID-19 vaccine.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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