December 12, 2022

Harvard's Hidden Risk of Racial Bias

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments pertaining to affirmative action in admissions at Harvard and UNC.  Initially consolidated, the two cases were subsequently uncoupled for separate review, allowing Justice Ketanji Brown Jackso...

August 6, 2022

Guilt by Association and the Shunning of Amy Wax

Amy Wax, a tenured law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is a nationally renowned thorn in the side of the academic establishment.  She is well known on the public speaking circuit and regularly appears on conservative media outlets, ...

July 14, 2022

How Leftist Academics Stack the Deck, and Why It Matters

I remember it almost as if it were yesterday.  It was during the Clinton administration, and I was interviewing for a faculty position at a private liberal arts college, comparable in prestige to the one where I still teach today. ...

June 30, 2022

Jewish Academics at Odds with BDS

A recent article in Inside Higher Ed reported on the growing momentum of a partnership between various nonprofit organizations and campus chapters of Hillel International, aimed at facilitating open and respectful dialogue among Jewish American colle...

March 15, 2022

Does Bucknell’s Commitment to Diversity Run More than Skin-Deep?

Having been steered to the right by recent appointments, the U.S. Supreme Court now prepares to revisit the issue of affirmative action in college admissions, and leaders of the nation’s most selective undergraduate institutions will likely be ...