by Henry Oliner | Mar 6, 2017 | Education, Politics, Progressivism
Intolerance and demonization of dissent is too common on American college campuses and the despicable behavior at Middlebury in Vermont to the speaking engagement of Charles Murray is indicative of a cultural and intellectual rot from much of the left. Read about...
by Henry Oliner | May 29, 2016 | Education, Politics, Progressivism
The left is hampered as much by moral superiority as by intellectual arrogance. The right tend to think the left is ignorant. If they would only read, ” (fill in the blank).” The right will likely acknowledge that the left is at least well intentioned,...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 26, 2016 | Anti Semitism, Education
from Ruth Wisse at the Wall Street Journal, March Madness, the Anti-Semite Bracket The agents of anti-Semitism are anti-Semites, and unless they become the object of scrutiny, the belligerents will achieve their goal. Blaming Israel for the suffering of Palestinian...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 3, 2016 | Economics, Education
From Real Clear Policy Who Fired Melissa Click? Free Markets by Thomas Lindsay Professor Click was fired by the UM Board of Curators last Thursday. But it wasn’t really the board that did her in. It was free markets — prospective students, their parents, donors,...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 18, 2016 | Education, Philosophy, Politics
Henry Oliner 2106 01 19 Richard Hofstadter’s Anti- Intellectualism in America is often used by liberals to explain why conservatives vote as they do. Hofstadter was motivated to expand on the subject by the rejection of Adlai Stevenson to the candidacy of Dwight...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 28, 2015 | Education
from Kevin Williamson at National Review, The Pink Guards on Campus The Pink Guards have declared war on freedom of speech, demanding official retribution against those expressing even such innocuous sentiments as “all lives matter.” Indeed, they have declared...
