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.
September 18, 2024
A little known 1940 film starring Margaret Sullavan, Jimmy Stewart, and Frank Morgan is perhaps Hollywood’s most successful attempt to dramatize the nature of antisemitism and the Nazi......
May 30, 2018
From the summer issue of Academic Questions, we reprint the controversial article, "The Case for Colonialism." ...
March 29, 2019
A study on the partisanship of liberal arts professors at America's top universities. ...
October 18, 2023
The claim that American policing “traces back” to, “started out” as, or “evolved directly from,” southern slave patrols, is false....
