Obama Promised Hope but Delivered Racial Animosity. Academia Follows Suit.
…it never happened—at least, not as the college claimed. In 2023, he was yanked out of the classroom, his pay stopped coming, and that was supposed to be the end….
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Can Harvard Win Back America’s Respect?
…Cambridge, they have always been uncomfortable with the Aristotelian idea that there are some things worth learning for their own sakes, apart from any social benefit they might yield. This…
Thucydides as Artist and Individual
…of Syracuse on Sicily. This is the strategic gambit that leads to the failure of the thalassocracy of Attica. As things fall apart on Sicily, back in Athens the populace…
All Hail Mailer! A Belated Eulogy for a Fellow Jeffersonian
…ideas to justify ex post facto an aging mess of a mass movement. Mailer saw this coming. He wrote about it. If you still know people who read (I do…
Orders of Magnitude from Thucydides to Poe
“Each side is coming face to face with its own conception of the devil!” – Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night Arthur Rackham’s 1935 illustration of Edgar Allan Poe’s…
Thucydides on Commerce and Freedom
…weight of knowing what’s coming adds to the reader’s anxiety as chances to escape it are foreclosed by paradox. For instance, Thucydides notes that the same public agility that helps…
What Will U-Austin Teach? Will It Have a Core, Perhaps of Statesmanship?
…Self-Interpretation of Man in the West,”—such a Harvard does not exist. How heartening then to hear of the conception of U-Austin, the quickening of seed-money, and a birth coming soon….
‘We The People’ Need to Stand Up for Our Nation
…is being reversed. Instead of getting closer to “We the people,” coming together as individuals, there is a movement fueled by some extremists to tear us apart. We are a…
My Father’s Library
…Man. Man is apart from nature, radically so, as free (for the Liberal) and as creative (for the Expressive). In either case, Man is alone with himself. And both theories…
Dan Jansen or Simone Biles: Who Should Our Students Emulate?
…and yes, even tragedy at critical junctures in my life. There were moments when it seemed like I was coming apart at the seams, and all I wanted to do…
Rethinking Higher Education Delivery in the Modern Age
…other players. They take great pride in being the best in their class, and they love to challenge themselves to achieve the next level. Gaming teaches incoming students that self-motivation…
Free Speech Must Be Protected Inside and Outside the College Classroom
…Murray’s Coming Apart to Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me and is intended to offer a wide range of perspectives on the American Dream and truly promote viewpoint diversity….
Eight Ideas Forbidden on Campus
…campuses without massive police protection, made much the same point in his book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. Murray urged what he calls “the new upper class”…
Here’s Why Public Colleges Could Face Defunding
…he alleges, “which is to destroy its perceived enemies.” Nevertheless, the victimhood studies associate professors and diversity office administrators will find the principal culprit for their coming unemployment in the…
The Real Defense of Charles Murray: Truth Not Free Speech
…noisy social justice warriors can briefly summarize the core argument of Coming Apart? Here’s a trick question: what does Coming Apart say about African Americans? (Answer: nothing, it’s only about…
Crime But No Punishment at Middlebury?
…the poor.” This was an unusually tawdry account of Murray’s long career, including his 2012 book on the collapse of much white American culture, Coming Apart, which might have explained…
The Bubble at Middlebury
…following Hayek, being libertarian and being conservative. Consider that Murray came to Middlebury to talk about his book Coming Apart as one way of understanding the outcome of our recent…
Charles Murray on Why He Was Silenced at Middlebury
Photo: Erielle Davidson for The Daily Wire A few months ago, AEI’s student group at Middlebury College invited me to speak on the themes of Coming Apart and how they…
Charles Murray Insulted but Allowed to Speak
…an address drawn from his latest book, Coming Apart, which explains the increasing economic and cultural polarization that has taken place in America because of structural changes in our information-based,…
Yale’s Imaginary Crime Wave
…have come as no surprise, given the results from a 2015 survey of the Association of American Universities. (Both Stuart Taylor and I picked apart the dubious methodology of the…
Robert Putnam Knows The Real Reason the American Dream Is Fading
…Apart. RP: Has he written about the religion thing? I didn’t remember that. DB: Coming Apart is about decline of religion certainly. And yet you don’t cite Murray at all…
TEN CAMPUS RAPES—OR WERE THEY?
…past the preponderance-of-evidence threshold. Apart from the accuser, Cornell’s main witness appears not to have been any of the students with whom the accused and accuser partied, but instead a…
A Warrior Against the ‘Rape Culture’ Speaks Out
…Johnson Hostler asserts that acquaintance rape is a “scourge of college life,” with one in five female students becoming a victim of rape or attempted rape. (Her source is the…
A Wolf at the Door of Academe
…Shanghai. Whether this will suffice to keep students coming to an expensive school in a rather remote place, I don’t have any idea. But if I were in President Rochon’s…
Myths, Realities, and Common Sense at Texas
…should be seeing 250-300 rapes/sexual assaults per week.’” Does anyone (apart, it seems, from Hammat) believe that there are 300 rapes each week at UT? To provide some statistical context,…
The Anti-Petraeus Hypocrisy
…that Goldstein signed before coming to CUNY, and that “by national standards, Dr. Goldstein’s compensation has always been moderate.” The only criticism of Goldstein’s actions (apart from Kaminer’s subtle editorializing…
Consumer Deals Coming to College Pricing
The end of higher education as we know it is no myth. Say you have three children and they’ll come of college age about two years apart. That’s a lot…
Sean Wilentz Looks at Oliver Stone’s ‘America’
…most basic level, Wilentz notes, and quite apart from its overall ultra-revisionist message, the Stone/Kuznick book is simply bad history. He takes apart their portrayal of the 1944 Democratic National…
Investing in Higher Education Will Not Bring Democratic Equality
…graduates from the top schools often earn “obscene” salaries while those from lesser schools struggle to find decent jobs to pay down student loan debt. Charles Murray’s Coming Apart depicts…
The Hunt for Conservative and Liberal Genes
…habit of “hid[ing] behind executive privilege every time there’s something a little shaky that’s taking place” and urging it to consider “coming clean”? Obviously Obama doesn’t. Regarding what to do…