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After Harvard July 09, 2025
Conservatives are right to celebrate judicial victories, but they would be wise to remember that every courtroom fight is a rearguard action. A judicial victory arrives only after the political branches or national institutions have retreated from co...
Moral Failure and Government Intrusion at Harvard June 13, 2025
To understand the crisis in American higher education, it is necessary to hold two thoughts at once. American higher education remains the envy of the world, with seven of its universities in the top 10 of Times Higher Education’s World University Ra...
The Soft Bigotry of Affirmative Action June 11, 2025
The ability of racial preferences to stigmatize black achievements first hit home for me in college in the early 1990s. Just before the start of my senior year, I received a job offer from the local newspaper. A short time later, I happened to run in...
The Myth of Victimization June 11, 2025
History will harshly judge the United States’ prolonged vacillation over whether to honor the Fourteenth Amendment’s command of color-blindness by government actors in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, with the Supreme Court earning much of th...
DEI: The Democrats’ Concrete Shoes June 05, 2025
Democrats think they need a Joe Rogan of their own when what they actually need is a Christopher Rufo.Today Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and just last week he received a prestigious Bradley Prize from one of the American right’...
Trump’s Attack on Harvard Marks New Phase in Culture War May 30, 2025
It is easy to understand the populist case against Harvard.The elite Ivy League university holds an endowment worth more than $50 billion. For centuries, the richest, most powerful, and influential human beings on earth have gone to school there. Lik...
Peter Thiel’s Visions of Apocalypse May 29, 2025
Peter Thiel is a big thinker, and these days he’s been thinking about Doomsday. In a series of four lectures he’s given three times, at Oxford, Harvard, and the University of Austin, he’s tried to understand human history, and particularly modernity,...
‘Zbig’ Review: Kissinger’s Chief Rival May 14, 2025
Since the creation of the position of White House national-security adviser, more than two dozen people have filled the position. The two men best known for the job, Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, held it in the 1970s. Both seemed straight ...
On 'The Harmattan Winds' May 12, 2025
“We played the fool talking with long-legged words so as to mock the bastards who feed off human sorrow.” This is the mantra of Hugues and Habéké, the child heroes of Sylvain Trudel’s The Harmattan Winds, translated into English by Donald Winkler. Tr...
Woke Universities Could Lose Talent to Red States May 12, 2025
Faced with a $2.2 billion cut in federal funding—including $110 million from the National Institutes of Health, potentially jeopardizing the university’s scientific research—Harvard may ultimately submit to the Trump administration’s demands. On the ...
Can Criticism Survive Inside the University? May 08, 2025
Below you will find the opening statements from the recent conference, “The End of the University and The Future of Criticism,” which took place on the University of Chicago campus on Thursday, April 3rd. The statements come from the four participant...
