By: Jason L. Riley – wsj.com – December 19, 2023 Anyone suggesting that Ms. Gay deserves the same treatment as Ms. Magill stands accused of racism by liberal elites who maintain that all black people not named Clarence Thomas are off-limits to criticism. The head of the NAACP, Derrick Johnson, insisted that disapproval of Ms. Gay’s leadership is “nothing more...

The new animated video “No Better Letter” tells the true story of Thomas Jefferson’s letter explaining the separation between church and state.  

Conservatives have generally opposed the progressive left’s years-long effort to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) countries and companies the left doesn’t like.

By: Matthew Hennessey – wsj.com – December 20, 2023 The lockdowns and lockouts of 2020 dealt a reputational blow to the education blob—that quasipublic syndicate of teachers unions, government bureaucracies, brand-name credentialing institutions and their media allies whose mission is to keep taxpayer money flowing to public schools. Most of that money is linked to students, many of whom left...

By: Michael Segal – wsj.com – December 18, 2023 Even support for Hamas’s Islamic supremacist ideology didn’t surprise anyone reading student newspapers. The most significant change in students’ moral philosophy in recent years has been the popularity of an identity-based ideology known as “intersectionality” that demands special privileges for all groups deemed oppressed. Intersectionality creates a pecking order with blacks,...

By: Adam M. Carrington – nationalreview.com – December 17, 2023 Classical education is not a threat. Don’t bash it. Let it thrive as a good for our republic. Is education Republican or Democrat, conservative or progressive? In a rightly ordered system, it should be neither. Instead, education in our country should be human and American. It should teach us the elements...

By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – December 17, 2023 Corporation is an apt appellation for Harvard and other Ivy League schools, considering they operate more like for-profit businesses than educational institutions. Unlike businesses, however, they lack shareholders to hold them accountable. This makes them models of the left’s “stakeholder capitalism” paradigm. The Harvard Corp. consists of 13 members, including the...

By: Becket Adams – nationalreview.com – December 17, 2023 Reading the news these days hardly feels like engaging with uncompromising truth-seeking. The stuff the corporate press chooses to pump out now, and the editorial choices they make regarding what is pursued and what is not pursued, has all the feel of public-relations work tailored specifically to excite and inspire a specific fan base...

We are constantly told how necessary it is to find the”root causes” of everything, from crime, to illegal immigration, to the wave of antisemitism spreading across many college campuses and in our streets.

By: Daniel Henninger – wsj.com – December 13, 2023 It may be no coincidence that colleges are abandoning SATs at the same time three university presidents were flunking questions in public about genocide. After receiving Fs for insisting that the answer to any direct question is “It depends on the context,” University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill lost her job...