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Harvard is Turning Away Teenage Geniuses April 18, 2025
With the Ivy League under fire — from AI, from Trump, from its own students — it may finally be enough for young people to consider alternative paths. At least, that’s the argument at Palantir Technologies....
Inside the Harvard Business School Ponzi Scheme July 10, 2024
The idea sounded solid on the surface. Vlad Artamonov told prospective investors, many of them his former classmates from Harvard Business School, that he’d discovered a hidden way to learn which stocks Warren Buffett was buying early, an edge that w...
Outgrowing Skintellectualism July 08, 2024
The first time I spoke with Glenn Loury, my initial impression was “Does this guy always speak in full paragraphs?”Two weeks after the Supreme Court’s decision that struck down affirmative action, I’d emailed the veteran black economist for research ...
The War for Western Civilization July 04, 2024
America’s elite universities are at war with Western civilization. And the public is finally starting to notice.Claudine Gay, the archetype of the modern university professor and administrator, was forced to resign as president of Harvard after she f...
Twilight of the Wonks March 29, 2024
Impostor syndrome isn’t always a voice of unwarranted self-doubt that you should stifle. Sometimes, it is the voice of God telling you to stand down. If, for example, you are an academic with a track record of citation lapses, you might not be the ri...
"Family Unfriendly" by Timothy P. Carney March 25, 2024
The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same two questions: Why is parenting so hard now? And why are the results so bad?Our culture tells parents there's one best way to raise kids: enroll the...
The Rise of Western Individualism March 19, 2024
Back when I was deployed in 2011, I read a fascinating passage in How the Mind Works by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. Pinker, describing the power of familial bonds, wrote, “every political and religious movement in history has sought to under...
The Coddling of the American Undergraduate March 18, 2024
When I was a graduate teaching assistant at Harvard University a decade ago, one of my students missed a final exam because he forgot to set his alarm. I didn’t learn about this because he told me, in person or even by email; nor did he apologize for...
Harvard Tramples the Truth March 12, 2024
I am no longer a professor of medicine at Harvard. The Harvard motto is Veritas, Latin for truth. But, as I discovered, truth can get you fired. This is my story—a story of a Harvard biostatistician and infectious-disease epidemiologist, clinging to ...
What James Baldwin Saw March 08, 2024
We begin with an image that conjures all manner of unspeakable horrors: the crumpled grimace of a Klansman. With this black-and-white photo—the first in a series of vintage pictures—the film I Heard It Through The Grapevine (1982) announces a history...
Will Harvard Get Another Prof Like Harvey Mansfield? February 23, 2024
Over the six decades that Harvey C. Mansfield taught political philosophy at Harvard, he came to seem like the last of his kind. ...
Raging Bill February 13, 2024
Ever since he was a boy, Bill Ackman dreamed of becoming a businessman. He sold ads for Let’s Go travel guides from his dorm room as an undergrad at Harvard and co-captained the business-school crew team, which had oars decorated with dollar signs. “...
Against the Current February 02, 2024
On July 4, 1845, a man from Concord, Massachusetts, declared his own independence and went into the woods nearby. On the shore of a pond there, Henry David Thoreau built a small wooden cabin, which he would call home for two years, two months and two...
Opportunity, Not Tragedy January 31, 2024
If you’ve ever watched a monster movie, you know the scene. The triumphant heroes walk away, the creature they had just vanquished left for dead behind them. And then, in a furious flash just before the credits start rolling, it opens its eyes and po...
How And Why The Ivy League Will Die January 18, 2024
Have you ever met a college admissions officer? Who does he or she remind you of?The answer is: “someone who works at the DMV.” Put nicely, they’re people who’ve done the best they could with limited options. Put cruelly, they’re midwits on a power t...
The Next Step for Disaffected Donors January 17, 2024
Americans’ confidence in our higher education system is at a historic low. According to a Gallup poll this summer, only 36 percent have real faith in our colleges and universities. After the ugly resurgence of antisemitism on campuses in the wake of ...
Can Miss America Restore America’s Faith in Merit? January 16, 2024
Sunday night, while America was watching football, news about this week’s Iowa Caucuses, or the Critics Choice Awards, the Miss America pageant was wrapping up in Orlando, Florida. Madison Marsh, 22, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, was crowned Miss America,...
Have Universities Ever Been a Source of Wisdom? January 16, 2024
Over at Power Line, while discussing the Claudine Gay/Harvard scandals, John Hinderaker raised the “broader question whether universities collectively have even been a source of wisdom on political issues.”It’s an important question, and it has a cle...
When Truth Is Lost in Translation January 12, 2024
The following is a condensed version of "When Truth Is Lost in Translation" by Roy Mathews, published at Law & Liberty.Narratives concerning the marginalized have come to dominate American institutions and popular culture. The plight of a plethora of...
The Economy of University Prestige January 11, 2024
No doubt many conservatives, especially those in higher education, have been clinking glasses at the news that Claudine Gay has resigned after a short and undistinguished presidency at Harvard University. Gay was responsible for the mistreatment of c...
Why I Quit My Dream Job at MIT January 11, 2024
For most academics, getting a job at MIT is a dream. Until October 7, it was for me. But in December, I resigned from my post because I could no longer deal with the pervasive antisemitism on MIT’s campus. How I got there is a story that is unique to...
The Root Cause of Academic Groupthink January 10, 2024
The shroud is coming off elite academia and America is not pleased with what it’s seeing. Its leaders have told us that genocidal antisemitism is too complex to recognize and that plagiarism is a problem for students, perhaps for junior faculty, but ...
Overton Collapse January 10, 2024
Grab your popcorn, kids, it’s a good old fashioned Plagiarism War. In the end, it was the morally inverted rape parades that drove America’s more moderate billionaires to interrogate those age old questions “what the hell is going on at Harvard,” and...
What’s Next for College Admissions? January 09, 2024
In the wake of the Supreme Court decisions in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC—landmark rulings that deemed affirmative action, as we know it, unconstitutional—we are approaching a real turning-point.Colleges can follow the clear intention of the Supr...
Claudine Gay and the Mafia of Mediocrity January 08, 2024
What do Nasra Abukar Ali and Claudine Gay have in common? Or, for that matter, the Somali Ministry of Sports and the Harvard Corporation?The answer is straightforward: both Ali and Gay came unprepared onto a major public stage, failed spectacularly i...
