Commentary It was sometime in the 1990s that academics fell in love with the idea of transgression. Not actual transgression, but the topic, the concept, the theory of it. Most professors lead bourgeois lives, teaching classes, doing some research, worrying about money and housing, and promotion. They may fancy themselves daringly progressive now and then,…
Why Jordan Peterson Quit Academia
Commentary Woke supremacy has been taking a toll on Western civilization. The casualties of wokeness are too many and sundry to track. But we should not forget that wokeness was first germinated in higher education, from whence it metastasized to the wider social body. The academy is the cathedral pulpit from which the ideological dictates of the elite…
American Traitors: Academics Working for China
December 30, 2021
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Commentary It took a federal jury in Boston less than three hours to return guilty verdicts on all six felony counts against Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Lieber, “one of the country’s top research chemists” according to the New York Times, lied to the FBI about his participation in…
The Strange Obedience of the Professorate
Commentary In the past, if you wanted to find a place where radical thoughts were in the air, protest and dissent were in ferment, and innovative ideas traded back and forth, you couldn’t do better than the college campus in 1965, 1975—all the way to the 2010s. The free speech and anti-War movements of the…
Hypocrisy On Display
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DC Swamp Hypocrisy!
Why haven’t the legislatures addressed the Antifa “domestic terrorist” groups who went to Washington, D.C., attacked Secret Service, and tried to tear down the barriers created to keep them out? It’s not solely about standard right and left anymore. I think everyone is learning that Antifa and BLM are movements that are worldwide as far…
One Side Fights, the Other Doesn’t
Commentary Back in the late-’90s and early-2000s, after the Campus Wars of the late-’80s and early-’90s had subsided, it became clear to conservative veterans of those prior disputes that however much political correctness in higher education had been exposed and denounced, and no matter how securely conservatives were able to draw the majority of ordinary…
Medicare Overpays on Roughly Half of Generic Meds: USC Study
July 6, 2021
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LOS ANGELES, Calif.—A University of Southern California (USC) study released July 6 comparing Medicare prescription drug prices with those paid by Costco members found that the federal government overpaid on roughly half of the most common generic medicines in 2018. The study—which appears as a research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine—compared Medicare Part D prescription…
The Purists of the Campus
Commentary A couple of years ago, while doing a week of lectures in Australia, I was told by my hosts of an initiative to start a small Western Civilization degree program at the University of Sydney and other colleges in the nation. The program would be but one portion of the giant slate of offerings to…
Conformity Among the Academic Elite
Commentary Last month, President Lawrence Bacow of Harvard University sent out a brief letter to the university community addressing a “disturbing rise in anti-Semitism” that had surfaced in the preceding days. Jews had been harassed on the streets and the Harvard Hillel house had been vandalized. The letter was only three paragraphs long, and here…
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