April 14, 2025
Preview articles in this issue with pieces by George La Noue, Edward S. Shapiro, Stewart Justman, and others.
April 14, 2025
Letters to the editor, Spring 2025 edition.
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In its spirited push to install “equity” throughout the federal government, the Biden-Harris administration overreached and created a significant judicial backlash, a development that will......
April 14, 2025
On January 5, 2025, the attendees at the American Historical Association convention in New York City voted to approve a resolution strongly condemning Israel for its response to the atrocities committ......
April 14, 2025
A Columbia University alumnus reminisces about his education at this vaunted institution and laments that today the professoriate has abandoned the nonprescriptive instruction he received—“......
April 14, 2025
A military veteran and legal counsel in the Gratz v. Bollinger (2003) affirmative action case explains why the demand for a color-blind meritocracy matters, particularly when it comes to our military;......
April 14, 2025
The Supreme Court decision in SFFA v. Harvard (2023), which declared the use of racial preferences in college admissions unconstitutional, did not directly apply to the military service academies. The......
April 14, 2025
After witnessing demonstrations in New York City celebrating the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas massacre of Israelis, singer/songwriter John Ondrasik, aka Five for Fighting, decided to use the power of music to s......
April 14, 2025
While America’s research universities have become ideological monoliths and have failed to deliver sound liberal education, Warren Treadgold rejects conservative calls to abolish or move resourc......
April 14, 2025
The mental health field is collectively fixated on the perceived sociopolitical despair caused by Donald Trump’s reelection victory. This fixation is premised on the assumption that the politics......
April 14, 2025
In September 2014, Emma Sulkowicz, a senior at Columbia College, began “Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight),” her protest against the university administration that had failed to expe......
April 14, 2025
Author and professor Donald T. Williams reminds us that a good poet needs four things: a good eye, a good ear, a good mind, and a good heart.
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After escaping the Castro regime in Cuba via Mexico as a child, Alfred G. Cuzán came to the United States and started on his academic career path in political science. Looking back now, Cuzá......
April 14, 2025
When we think of cancel culture, we usually focus on two parties: the target and the cancelers. However, the cancelers typically seek termination of employment, deplatforming, or some other form of pu......
April 14, 2025
Sexual misconduct has been a prominent issue on college campuses since the 2005 College Sexual Assault Internet Survey brought the matter to national attention. The U.S. Department of Education under......
April 14, 2025
The former President of the Colorado Senate, chairman of the State Policy Network, and director of TCI Cable News John Andrews delivered these thoughtful remarks to the National Association of Scholar......
April 14, 2025
Daniel Asia dissects Benjamin Ginsburg’s The New American Antisemitism and discovers the renowned political scientist has some uncomfortable recommendations for America’s Jews.
April 14, 2025
William M. Briggs has a humorous take on Aubrey Clayton’s Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science, concluding that the fundamental problem in the use o......
April 14, 2025
Richard P. Phelps reviews Katharine Beals’ Students with Autism: How to Improve Language, Literacy, and Academic Success, and helpfully discerns those strategies we now know to be ineffecti......
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Historian Edward S. Shapiro points out that Nick Witham’s Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America is marred by the author’s obvious sel......
April 14, 2025
Jacob Williams discusses prominent French intellectual Pascal Bruckner’s An Imaginary Racism: Islamophobia and Guilt and concludes that Bruckner makes a strong case that France is not......
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Wight Martindale, Jr. says that John T. Farrell’s The Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination “is a brilliant, exhaustive, and challenging study” demonstrating......
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John Adam Moreau writes that Bradley J. Birzer’s American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll, is a delightful revelation of the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence.