by Henry Oliner | Dec 16, 2023 | Anti Semitism
From her outstanding site Bari Weiss articulates the fundamental flaw with DEI. It is shameful that it took the explosion in anti Semitism on our campuses to see the problem but I have long objected to the infection of this mind virus. From her essay End DEI: What I...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 13, 2023 | Anti Semitism
From a review of The Identity Trap in Commentary Magazine: The identity synthesis has come to exert tremendous influence over public life in a remarkably short span of time. Its illiberal premises and principles are exacerbated by the sheer intolerance of its methods....
by Henry Oliner | Dec 10, 2023 | Anti Semitism, Education
The hearings in Congress from presidents Liz Magill of The University of Pennsylvania, Claudine Gay of Harvard and Sally Kornbluth of MIT have gone viral and are so detrimental to the reputation of their schools that Magill has already resigned. It is shameful that...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 10, 2023 | Anti Semitism
From Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Dish, The Day The Empress’ Clothes Fell Off: Freedom of speech in the Ivy League extends exclusively to the voices of the oppressed; they are also permitted to disrupt classes, deplatform or shout down controversial speakers,...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 31, 2023 | Anti Semitism
October 7 was a shock in the scale, surprise, and the sheer brutality of the attack. The second shock was the enormous outpouring of support for Hamas and the Palestinians in Russia, European cities and even more disturbing, the colleges and universities in this...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 18, 2023 | Anti Semitism
I confess to a strong sense of schadenfreude at seeing the social justice warriors have their main weapon turned on them. Big donors are withholding money from universities who tolerate real hate, not just hate speech, and not just the crocodile tears, virtue...
