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Trump’s Campus Crackdown Is Long Overdue

Victor Davis Hanson: My advice to Columbia University and especially to the president of Princeton: Either protect the civil rights of Jewish students and students in general or expect a backlash from the federal government, the magnitude of which you really have not recognized and you should fear.

Universities Whining About Trump-Funding Pause Don’t Want You to Know About Their Insane DEI Research

Brown University spent nearly $1.3 million on “healthcare utilization disparities among older transgender and cisgender adults in the U.S.,” $700,000 on “intervention to enhance PrEP persistence among African American men who have sex with men,” and $350,000 on “making universal, free-of-charge antiretroviral therapy work for sexual and gender minority youth in Brazil.

How to Get More Conservatives in Academia

The politicization of the university is not only an obstacle for the Right but for academia itself. Schools’ “sectarian” reputation undermines trust among those who perceive them to be hostile to their views. More important, academia’s ideological tilt presents an intellectual problem, as it gives license to theory-laden interpretations of reality and declining rigor.