George Leef

George Leef is director of editorial content at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal.

May 23, 2025

A New Book Tells the Truth About Campus Investigations
November 18, 2024

How Academic Elites Are Undoing Centuries of Progress
May 20, 2024

Against the Latest Student-Loan ‘Forgiveness’ Scheme
October 8, 2022

Woke Capture at UT-Knoxville
March 23, 2020

Court Rules Free Speech Must Yield to ‘Woke’ Speech
November 4, 2019

A Racially “Woke” Agenda Is Now Hardwired in Public Schools
July 31, 2019

A Weak Attempt at Justifying Admissions Preferences
June 10, 2019

Whitewashing the Harm Colleges Inflict on the Nation
April 22, 2019

Why Don’t More College Leaders Back Free Speech?
February 21, 2019

One Clear Way to Stop College Accreditation Fraud
December 20, 2018

Reminding Us Why Racial Preferences are a Bad Idea
April 16, 2018

The Last-Ditch Battle to Protect Racial Preferences in California
February 21, 2018

This University Is Going to Pay Big Money for Ignoring a Student’s Rights
July 19, 2017

An Anti-Koch Rampage at Wake Forest
May 8, 2017

NYU Professor Sides with “Snowflakes” Against Free Speech
February 9, 2017

Enough of the College-for-Everyone Agenda
October 31, 2016

College Faculties, Heavily Tilted Toward the Left, Shun Diverse Viewpoints
August 29, 2016

Top College Endowments Are Political Targets Now
July 14, 2016

The Remarkably Feeble Fisher Opinion
April 22, 2016

Profs Go to the Mattresses Against Israel
March 14, 2016

Jane Mayer Peddles Her “Sky is Falling!” Story
January 24, 2016

How MOOCs Foil Distraction
November 19, 2015

Why Get-Tough Accreditors Make Classes More Fun and Less Demanding
October 13, 2015

Appalachian State Takes Diversity Groveling to a New Low
September 20, 2015

A Lame Defense of Trigger Warnings and Micro-Aggression Mania
July 27, 2015

We Have Too Many Colleges, So Cut Federal Funding
June 24, 2015

Student Ratings Bait Profs Into Lowering Standards
May 15, 2015

The Severely Biased New Prof at Boston University
April 22, 2015

NOT IN AN ELITE COLLEGE? NO WORRIES!
January 29, 2015

Student Debt Harms the Economy, but is Only a Symptom