Tag: student groups
The Polite Zealotry of Mike Johnson
In an interview last week on Fox News, the newly elected speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, told host Sean Hannity, “Someone asked me today in the media, ‘People are curious, what does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun?’ I said, ‘Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview.’”
For many politicians, that would be a throwaway line. But not for Mike Johnson. When he told a Baptist newspaper
The Moral Failure of Campus Hamas Apologists
Campus politics in America irrevocably changed this week when student groups that champion the noble goal of justice for Palestinians endorsed the evil means of war crimes in pursuit of it.
Last Saturday, hundreds of gun-toting men stormed into Israel by land, air, and sea with the express purpose of killing as many Jews as possible. They succeeded in perpetrating a pogrom reminiscent of the Cossacks and the Nazis. They murdered civilians in their homes as their families watched. They
What College Students Really Think About Cancel Culture
Every couple of months it seems the news features another college-campus free-speech incident. In 2021, for instance, a University of Rochester professor was suspended after quoting texts that contained a racial slur; MIT canceled a lecture by a speaker who’d criticized diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; and a handful of students across the country felt they were kept out of campus leadership positions due to their conservative beliefs.
Because of events like these, many political commentators write about the threat
Yale Law’s Diversity Bureaucrats Made Five Mistakes
Have you ever wondered what deans of diversity do behind closed doors? Until last week, the public had little visibility into bureaucracies such as the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Yale Law School. Then covertly recorded audio emerged of Yaseen Eldik, the office’s director, and Ellen Cosgrove, an associate dean, pressuring a student to issue a written apology for emailing out a party invitation that offended some of his classmates.
The Yale Law student in question, Trent