With students now in control of campus and classroom, Epstein wonders if it is all the result of raising children in the therapeutic ethos. Epstein himself was raised in a different ethos, a world in which there was no shortage of adults beseeching youngsters to “grow up.”
A Middlebury College student manifesto, written in the aftermath of the infamous 2017 attack on guest speaker Charles Murray and his faculty host Allison Stanger, reveals a deep antipathy for the fundamentals of liberal arts education. For the students, the free exchange of ideas is “unhealthy,” “unsafe,” and “violent.” These ideas come care of the burgeoning class of “re-education” professionals in “student support services” and the faculty.
May 30, 2018
From the summer issue of Academic Questions, we reprint the controversial article, "The Case for Colonialism." ...
March 18, 2022
Political scientist and NAS board member Bruce Gilley’s article “The Case for Colonialism” (republished in Academic Questions in the summer of 2018), has been the subject o......
October 18, 2023
The claim that American policing “traces back” to, “started out” as, or “evolved directly from,” southern slave patrols, is false....
