February Newsletter
Western Civ, the Economics of Slavery, and Intellectual Diversity

Featured Articles
January 24, 2020

The Lost History of Western Civilization

Stanley Kurtz

The Lost History of Western Civilization is a wide-ranging consideration of the academy’s role in producing America’s contemporary political and cultural divisions. The report traces the ways in which the 1988 controversy over the teaching of Western Civilization at Stanford set the pattern for today’s “Cold Civil War.”

The report is also an extended case-study in the follies and limitations of deconstructionist, multiculturalist, postmodern, and intersectional thinking. The report refutes a landmark scholarly “deconstruction” of Western Civilization, throwing new light on American history and exposing the incoherence of academic postmodernism in the process.
February 20, 2020

The Economics and Politics of the 1619 Project

Peter Wood, Phil Magness, Robert Cherry

Robert Cherry and Phil Magness join Peter W. Wood to discuss the 1619 Project, including its dubious portrayal of the economics of American slavery.
February 19, 2020

The Economist Tries to Mislead about Liberal Bias in Academia

Sumantra Maitra

The Economist claims that "There is scant evidence to suggest that academic elites push a left-wing agenda onto their impressionable young pupils"—Sumantra Maitra disagrees.
February 14, 2020

Missouri and Iowa Legislators Introduce Campus Intellectual Diversity Bills

NAS

Two more states have joined Arizona in introducing campus intellectual diversity legislation modeled after Stanley Kurtz’s Campus Intellectual Diversity Act.
February 14, 2020

The Thousand Traitors Program

John David

Harvard's Charles Lieber is suspected of accepting millions from China in exchange for secret research and then lying about it to the FBI.

Announcements

Job Posting: Associate Professor or Full Professor Department Chair, Communication Studies at TTU

Texas Tech University’s Department of Communication Studies is seeking applicants for the position of chair of the department. This is a full-time tenured position at the rank of associate or full professor status.

Events

Event: “All the King's Horses and Men: The Royal Stables of Renaissance Spain”

Join us for a lecture and Q&A with First Things magazine on Thursday, March 19, at their editorial offices in Manhattan. 

Member Publications

Jacob Howland


"Odysseus Against the Matriarchy."
Claremont Review of Books 19.4. Fall 2019, 98-102.

"Borges’s Mirror."
The New Criterion. October 2019, 13-18.

"‘Love Between Writers’: Saul Bellow and Bette Howland."
Jewish Review of Books 10.2. Summer 2019, 39-41.

"Corporate Wolves in Academic Sheepskins, or, a Billionaire’s Raid on the University of Tulsa."
The Nation. June 2019.

"Storm Clouds Over Tulsa: Inside the Academic Destruction of a Proud Private University."
City Journal. April 2019.

"Prophecies of Democratic Leveling."
The New Criterion. March 2019, 19-25.

 

Philip Carl Salzman


"The Campus Tendency to Extremism"
Minding the Campus. December 2019.
 


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