Day: November 6, 2024

The Electoral College in Context

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the Law & Liberty on November 5, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Arguments about the Electoral College are often shallow. Opponents claim it is a relic of slavery and the product of the Founders’ distrust of democracy. They cite […]

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Pitt Gets $5 Million Taxpayer Grant to ‘Generate Evidence’ for ‘Racial Equity’ Brain Training

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on November 6, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Proponents of “racial equity” training have received $5 million from the National Institutes of Health to “generate evidence” in support of their program at the University of Pittsburgh. […]

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Scientists in Charge? ‘I Can’t Think of Anything Worse’

For a time, I worked at a South African university, where my department still upheld the civilized practice of morning tea. One morning, I happened to arrive a few minutes late but found an open seat at a table just as a senior professor was opining—in very orotund tones, naturally—to some Honours students, “Wouldn’t it […]

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