The New York Times article, “Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard: An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization,” tells a very different story than its title and subhead, one which suggests that Harvard’s arrogance might be leading […]
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Tsinghua University in Beijing is China’s top university and is often considered the top university in Asia. It is also a key instrument of the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign influence efforts and has played a key role in advancing China’s influence at American colleges and universities. Its influence is felt in many areas but none […]
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When one observes a map, it often tells a story. If an individual viewed a map during the Second World War, the Atlantic was the centerpiece, with Europe and the United States on either side. Following Great Britain’s decline and America’s rise, the United States stood front and center, with the Pacific and the Atlantic […]
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Around the time I was writing this, I had just finished reading Amanda Montell’s fascinating and hugely popular 2021 book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism. I had also read some reviews, one of them being this blog post written by Brittany Shields in which she suggests that “Of all the cultish groups Montell mentions, she […]
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Higher education’s problem is more than a loss of confidence. Anti-Semitism on many college campuses is a visible symptom of far deeper problems. Anti-Semitism has been tied to the networked problems of discriminatory “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), wokeness, and critical consciousness. But this is more than anti-Semitism as the canary in the coalmine phenomenon. […]
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Organizations such as the Roman Catholic Church have catechisms, a list of beliefs to which all members are expected to subscribe. Interestingly, the 1848 Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was really an extension of a slightly earlier Communist catechism authored by Engels. As far leftist extremists increasingly took over college campuses over […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on April 7, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. A controversial nationwide PhD initiative criticized for excluding white scholars recently removed racially exclusionary wording from its website. The U.S. Department of Education is currently investigating 45 […]
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In an era where comfort and personal expression dominate campus dress, the idea of dressing up for class may seem outdated. Hoodies, sweats, yoga pants, and slippers are the unofficial winter attire, traded in for midriffs, booty shorts, and flip flops when the weather heats up. PJs for final exams is one thing, but wearing […]
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What does a liberal education look like? If history is anything of a guide, Latin, memorization of poetry, and studying nature are likely to be its hallmarks. Ritalin, breathing exercises, and bureaucracy: not so much. In certain circles, some of the practices dismissed, definitely disproven by social scientists and 20th-century educational progressives, are being brought […]
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As a cultural anthropologist, I had the privilege of living in societies and cultures very different from my American urban upbringing. Perhaps I could have had somewhat similar experiences if I had ventured in other parts of my own society, where people lived in villages or isolated farms and ranches, where people were primary producers […]
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“We can’t hold them. The city is lost.” “Tell the men to break cover. We ride for Minas Tirith.” So Faramir, captain of Gondor and son of the steward, says to his lieutenant during the battle of Osgiliath. It is a pivotal scene in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King that […]
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At sunrise on April 19, 1775, about 80 American townsmen in Lexington, Massachusetts, filed out of Buckman Tavern onto Lexington Green. They were commanded by French and Indian War veteran John Parker. Parker was restrained. His words were, “Stand your ground; don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let […]
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On April 16, 2025, Nicholas Decker, a PhD student at George Mason University (GMU), published a Substack essay titled “When Must We Kill Them?,” which calls for violence against President Donald Trump and his administration. Decker, who identifies as a liberal and open-borders advocate in his X bio, bases much of his argument on Trump’s […]
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Consider the question, “How can the resurrection of Jesus change higher education?” From a Christian standpoint, the resurrection of Jesus Christ has already changed higher education. In fact, the Christian vision for life and learning decisively inspired the idea of a university, starting in medieval Europe through cathedral and monastery schools. Without the resurrection, there […]
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Of course, Paul Revere was a hero as he rowed and rode to alarm the countryside around Boston: “The British are coming! The British are coming!” (“The Regulars are coming out,” the staid historians tell us were his actual words.) So too were the much neglected William Dawes and Samuel Prescott. We owe our independence and our liberty to their pluck and bravery. […]
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President Trump recently signed Executive Order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” taking aim at the Smithsonian museums for curating exhibits that twist and disparage American history. The order states: [T]he Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology. This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western […]
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As student visas continue to be revoked, many left-leaning news outlets and writers have expressed wariness of Trump’s motivations. They characterize the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which the Trump Administration has used as a basis to revoke student visas, as tendentious grounds for action and worse, creates a climate that echoes McCarthyism. The […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on April 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. A new Catholic trade school called the College of Saint Joseph the Worker recently opened in Steubenville, Ohio, to train students “in skilled […]
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Harvard University and the Trump Administration have collided. The Crimson reports that: Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garber ’76 announced in a message to affiliates Monday afternoon. The sequence of events suggests […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on The College Fix on April 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Texas stands at a crossroads with two companion bills winding their way through the Lone Star Statehouse that aim to reform accreditation by […]
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President Trump’s Department of Education (ED) has targeted colleges and universities that fail to protect Jewish students’ civil rights and others that embrace “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies. Some universities have bowed to at least some of his concerns, others have vowed to fight him, and still others are trying to look compliant while […]
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Editor’s Note: The following excerpt was originally published by the National Association of Scholars on April 15, 2025. It has been edited to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines and is cross-posted here with permission. The news this morning is, as one headline puts it, “Federal Government Freezes $2.26 Billion Funding to Harvard after It Refuses to Comply.” […]
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The world has entered a new era of Great Power competition, where civilizational and regional blocks are coalescing to create large spaces of economic, trade, and military influence. Leaders and experts worldwide have termed this the new era of multipolarity. The political, economic, and technological systems of the West have been hybridized and fused by […]
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The transition into college is a pivotal time, filled with new opportunities, challenges, and responsibilities. However, with the stress of academic study, financial pressures, and social adjustments, it’s no surprise that mental health concerns among college students are on the rise. According to a Healthy Minds survey, more than 60 percent of college students have […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on September 23, 2023. It was translated into English from French by the Observatory before being edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission. Everyone remembers the events of the spring at Columbia […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by RealClear Education on April 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Last week, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) wrapped up their “Week of Rage,” a week-long series of programs intended to intimidate and threaten those unsupportive […]
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Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from the author’s latest book, DEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con of the Century Almost Toppled Higher Education. It has been edited to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines and is cross-posted here with permission. One of the best assessments of the popular racialist fictioneer Ta-Nehisi Coates was delivered […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on April 9, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Since the 1997 founding of Western Governors University (WGU), a private, nonprofit institution developed to pioneer so-called competency-based education (CBE), a growing number of […]
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This essay has two parts. The first part painted a collective portrait of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) staff through the books they recommended for others. Here, I offer personal thoughts on what should constitute common reading for those who, like me, believe our society would thrive if more of us engaged with a […]
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