On Campus Safety, the Left Is Hopelessly Confused
…When, in July of this year, Stony Brook University’s Maurie McInnis assumed the presidency of Yale, she did so despite having narrowly avoided censure by the Stony Brook faculty senate…
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Literature Has Become a Playground for Marxists
…on theory, six of them cater to ideologies of the far left such as Marxism, Postcolonialism, and Queer Theory. An introductory “Theory of Literature” course at Yale echoes this classification,…
The Ebbing of the Ivies
…scores, it never occurred to me to apply. A degree from a place like Harvard or Yale seemed utterly unattainable. I had a better chance of dating Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Forty…
Reflections on the Loss of Rigor in College Classes
…the university. Although some of our own children and grandchildren have matriculated at places such as Vanderbilt, Harvard, LSE, and Yale, I have not and would not encourage them to…
Yale Offers Beyoncé ‘Black Radical Tradition’ Class
…tradition” and “black feminist” thought is the focus of a multidisciplinary course at Yale University. “Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics through Music,” is being…
Penn’s Shameful Sanction of Amy Wax: A Blow to Free Speech and Academic Freedom
…has earned degrees from Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and Columbia, including an M.D. in neurology, in addition to her law degree. She has argued 15 cases before the Supreme Court. I…
How the Modern Law School Promotes Political Division and “Lawfare”
…the lower court system. His emphasis, along with Guido Calabresi of Yale Law School, on economic factors in legal decision-making has a significant pedigree. However, it might be argued that,…
Unpacking the Conspiracy of ‘Saving Democracy’
…decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people’s vote.” The late Yale professor Robert Dahl expanded on this minimalist procedure…
Law Schools Must Create a Culture That Promotes Viewpoint Diversity. Here’s How.
…who do, as we saw at Yale Law School in 2022? Law schools shouldn’t get a pass for issuing aspirational statements while perpetuating inquiry-stifling norms. To assess a law school’s…
“Techne”: The Future Students—and Parents—Want
…serve this function? (A) Sort of. Yale’s computer science majors don’t have much trouble getting software jobs after graduation. But, again, a big part of that is the screening provided…
Spellbooks, Rituals, ‘Demonology,’ Taylor Swift Rumors: Classes on Witchcraft Abound This Fall
…just incredible, it’s like a tsunami,” Yale University Professor Carlos Eire told The College Fix recently via Zoom. Eire, who teaches religion and studies the history of the supernatural, said…
Why Music Thrives in Our Universities
…MIT, Stanford, Chicago, Princeton, Columbia, or Yale, music is an essential part of their identity. MIT offers a B.S. in Music and a combined music and engineering degree, while Stanford…
Safetyism and the Tentifada: Modern Campus Protests Undermine Intellectual Rigor and Erode Higher Education
…immediate cause for reflection was the Great Halloween Costume Contrempts that occupied Yale in the fall of 2015. The second author delivered a talk on campus the day Professor Nicholas…
Israel’s Fight Against Hamas May Deter Future Terrorist Attacks. Anti-Israeli Students Should Consider This.
It will come as no news to anyone other than Rip Van Winkle that anti-Israel protests recently occurred on university campuses nationwide. Columbia University, Yale, Harvard, Berkeley, and other institutions…
We Keep Us Grammatical
…safe.” The mantra is by no means confined to Princeton. It has been shouted, chanted, and written over and over again these past months at Columbia, at Yale, at UCLA,…
Rich Students Disproportionally Protest Israel: Should We Fund Elite Universities?
…pronounced for richly endowed schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Northwestern, Duke, and Stanford. However, even these institutions face significant challenges, particularly with the potential imposition of larger endowment taxes. The…
The Kirkpatrick Doctrine and Domestic Policy
…anyone credentialed by Harvard, Yale, or MIT, and they still fall for the fake reporting of The New York Times, CNN, or Bloomberg. Europeans are also more accustomed to major…
An Octogenarian Reflects Upon Student Protests Over Six Decades
…Laos than had died in combat during the previous 14 years of war. The Yale University Cambodia Genocide Program concluded that roughly 1.7 million Cambodians—more than 20 percent of the…
Higher Education Subsidization: Part 1—Subsidy Justifications and Rationales
…than sacramental approach to religion—emphasized an educated clergy and a literate flock.” After these colonies established Harvard and Yale, other religions pushed to establish their own colleges—e.g., Presbyterians were instrumental…
The Trouble with Our Founders
…up against the willful ignorance of the crowd. Such shared stupor also explains how legal and literary scholars at the University of Zaragoza, University of Virginia, Yale University, Tel Aviv…
When University Leaders Won’t Lead
…conflict and as educational “stepping stones” to the State Department. Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia, NYU, Yale, Texas, MIT, the University of Chicago, and others are among the protest locations. As usual,…
A Mission Statement for New College of Florida
…these virtues than they would have been had they attended Stanford or Yale instead. Third, conciseness is a virtue. The mission statement is 80 words. You could shrink it into…
Better Campus Incentives: Reward the Good, Punish the Bad
…severely punished. This is particularly true at selective universities like Columbia or Yale, where many applicants are denied admission. Let only those who will play by the rules attend—we call…
Top of Mind: Reflections on Pro-Palestinian Protests
…University on April 18 has ignited solidarity protests at colleges nationwide, ranging from Yale University and MIT on the East Coast to Ohio State University in the Midwest and Stanford…
Top of Mind: Standardized Tests
…Requirements,” “Harvard reinstates standardized testing requirement, following Yale, MIT,” and “In Sudden Reversal, Harvard To Require Standardized Testing for Next Admissions Cycle.” “Our bottom line is simple: we believe a…
Why Law School Should Be an Undergraduate Program
…of the Yale Law School,” in History of the Yale Law School, Anthony T. Kronman, editor. Yale, like all earlier American law schools, originally awarded an undergraduate law degree, the…
U.S. Colleges and Admission Testing: Required, Optional, or Blind?
…and ability distributions. The elite Northeastern schools re-requiring test scores—Dartmouth, Georgetown, Brown, Yale, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)—select applicants solely from that end of the range. Thus,…
Curricular Visions: Revitalizing the Great Books
…Dame, the Core Curriculum at Columbia, Humanities 10 at Harvard, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture at Princeton and Directed Studies at Yale. The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal…
Echoes of Lost Conversations: A Review of ‘Bright College Years’
…College Years could help serve as a model for the restructuring ahead. Set at Yale in the 1980s,, the story tells of a gang of friends going through their four…
To Renew Faith in Education, Look to Passover and Resurrection
…translation of the Bible. Yale’s Hebrew motto, Urim v’Thummim, is from the Hebrew Bible’s oracle worn by the High Priest Aaron (Leviticus 8:8). Harvard University’s Latin motto of “Veritas” began…